Patents by Inventor Paul M. Gerhardt

Paul M. Gerhardt 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).

  • Technique for efficiently allocating bandwidth to multimedia calls in a communications system
    Patent number: 5751712
    Abstract: In a multimedia communications system where bandwidth of an access facility is limited, the bandwidth is partitioned into three bands dedicated to audio, video and data traffic, respectively, in accordance with blocking probabilities associated with the respective media types. The value of each blocking probability is selected pursuant to the relative importance of the associated media type in a multimedia service. With the blocking probabilities in place, the dominance of traffic of a particular media type, which may be relatively unimportant in the service, would not cause blocking of traffic of other media types, which may be relatively important.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies
    Inventors: Charles Yeomans Farwell, Paul M. Gerhardt, Hassan Hagirahm, David Martin Sueper, Terry L. Zrust