Patents by Inventor Douglas H. Patriarche

Douglas H. Patriarche 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).

  • Optimization and recovery techniques in IMA networks
    Patent number: 6002670
    Abstract: In ATM networks, digital data in ATM cells are sent to a destination node over a connection made up of more than one transmission link in round robin fashion. This is called inverse multiplexing. Suitable transmission links are selected among a plurality of provisionable transmission links according to some selection criteria. According to some embodiments of the invention, the selection criteria are minimum delay and maximum bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Reshad Rahman, Douglas H. Patriarche, Richard Vallee, Stuart C. White