Patents by Inventor Robert Van Renesse

Robert Van Renesse 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 system for optimizing layered communication protocols
    Patent number: 6914910
    Abstract: Layering of protocols offers several well-known advantages, such as, for example, reduction of a network design complexity, but, on the other hand, layering introduces overhead which increases delays in communication and typically leads to performance inefficiencies. The present invention provides a number of techniques allowing to model protocol layering and detect where performance inefficiencies occur in the stack of protocol layers. Furthermore, after common execution paths are identified in the protocol stacks, these paths are optimized by using optimization techniques, such as optimizing the computation, compressing protocol headers, and delaying processing. All of the optimizations are automated in a compiler with the help of minor annotations by the protocol designer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Van Renesse, Mark Rayden
  • Method and system for optimizing layered communication protocols
    Patent number: 6134244
    Abstract: Layering of protocols offers several well-known advantages, such as, for example, reduction of a network design complexity, but, on the other hand, layering introduces overhead which increases delays in communication and typically leads to performance inefficiencies. The present invention provides a number of techniques allowing to model protocol layering and detect where performance inefficiencies occur in the stack of protocol layers. Furthermore, after common execution paths are identified in the protocol stacks, these paths are optimized by using optimization techniques, such as optimizing the computation, compressing protocol headers, and delaying processing. All of the optimizations are automated in a compiler with the help of minor annotations by the protocol designer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Inventors: Robert Van Renesse, Mark Hayden