Patents by Inventor Jim Pinkerton

Jim Pinkerton 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).

  • Apparatus and method for scaling TCP off load buffer requirements by segment size
    Patent number: 7124198
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to ensure that protocol data units received out of order do not have to be buffered by a reassembly buffer in the performance path is presented. When an application or device requests to transfer data with another application or device, a framing protocol sends one or more complete protocol data units preceded by a framing header that is aligned with the transport header. The framing header contains information that allows the receiving application or device to determine where the protocol data unit should be placed so that successive protocol data units can be recovered when a previous protocol data unit has been received out of order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Jim Pinkerton
  • Apparatus and method for scaling TCP off load buffer requirements by segment size
    Publication number: 20030084185
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to ensure that protocol data units received out of order do not have to be buffered by a reassembly buffer in the performance path is presented. When an application or device requests to transfer data with another application or device, a framing protocol sends one or more complete protocol data units preceded by a framing header that is aligned with the transport header. The framing header contains information that allows the receiving application or device to determine where the protocol data unit should be placed so that successive protocol data units can be recovered when a previous protocol data unit has been received out of order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Jim Pinkerton