Patents by Inventor Kevin Klapper

Kevin Klapper 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 a fault tolerant router architecture
    Patent number: 6778490
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for routing a data packet in a fault tolerant manner. A data packet is received from an incoming data channel and is transferred to a switching engine (SE) through an access processor engine (APE). A route for the data packet is generated using a central processor resource (CPR). The data packet is transferred from the SE to an outgoing trunk physical module (TP) using the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Heather Achilles, Terry Pearson, Paul Gallo, Kevin Klapper, Dan Sullivan