Patents by Inventor Dominick Anthony Cafarelli

Dominick Anthony Cafarelli has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for real-time protocol analysis using an active and adaptive auto-throtting CPU allocation front end process
    Patent number: 6735629
    Abstract: In a probe system for monitoring and analyzing data flow and associated activities between devices connected in common to a point in a network, in the mode of operation, the probe's driver runs in a “Kernel mode” on Windows NT for analyzing in relatively low detail packets of data retrieved from the network, whereby programming is provided for operating the Kernel mode driver to monitor the rate of traffic or data packets entering an NIC card buffer, for causing the CPU to respond to an interrupt issued by the NIC everytime a data packet is received at a traffic rate below a predetermined threshold to access data packets entering the NIC card buffer, and to cause the CPU to respond to polling pulses at regular predetermined intervals to access data packets, when the traffic rate exceeds the predetermined threshold, for providing more CPU cycles to analyze the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominick Anthony Cafarelli, III, Daniel Hansen
  • Method and apparatus for real-time protocol analysis using an auto-throttling front end process
    Patent number: 6697870
    Abstract: In a probe system for monitoring and analyzing data flow and associated activities between devices connected in common to a point in a network, the probe's driver runs in a “Kernel mode” on Windows NT for analyzing packets of data retrieved from the network, whereby programming is provided for operating the Kernel mode driver to monitor the rate of traffic or data packets entering an NIC card buffer, for causing the CPU to respond to an interrupt issued by the NIC everytime a data packet is received at a traffic rate below a predetermined threshold to access data packets entering the NIC card buffer, and to cause the CPU to respond to polling pulses at regular predetermined intervals to access data packets, when the traffic rate exceeds the predetermined threshold, for providing more CPU cycles to analyze the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominick Anthony Cafarelli, III, Daniel Hansen
  • Method and apparatus for capture, analysis and display of packet information sent in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network
    Patent number: 6697337
    Abstract: A wireless analyzer device for an IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN is programmed to perform both a per packet processing routine to obtain packet statistics, and a one second timer routine, followed by arranging the packet statistics in a logical manner for display on a computer monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominick Anthony Cafarelli, James Peter Anderson
  • Method and apparatus for filtering that specifies the types of frames to be captured and to be displayed for an IEEE802.11 wireless LAN
    Patent number: 6693888
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provides for wirelessly monitoring data packets or frames transmitted in a wireless LAN, that permits a user to selectively filter out unwanted ones of the data packets or frames with respect to the source and destination hardware addresses, and to the frame type and subtypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominick Anthony Cafarelli, Kazim Orhan Yildiz
  • Method and apparatus for filtering that specifies the types of frames to be captured and to be displayed for an IEEE802.11 wireless lan
    Publication number: 20030012163
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provides for wirelessly monitoring data packets or frames transmitted in a wireless LAN, that permits a user to selectively filter out unwanted ones of the data packets or frames with respect to the source and destination hardware addresses, and to the frame type and subtypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Dominick Anthony Cafarelli, Kazim Orhan Yildiz