Patents by Inventor Ronald Frank Larson

Ronald Frank Larson 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).

  • System for expanding a parameter encoding field in a message to allow additional parameters to be added while maintaining compatibility with existing parameter encodings
    Patent number: 6529505
    Abstract: A system for expanding a parameter encoding field in a new communications protocol that is compatible with an old protocol. An unused command parameter in an old protocol is used to indicate an expanded parameter encoding field in a new protocol. Parameter encodings from the old protocol are unchanged in the new protocol. A system communicating using the old protocol recognizes all parameters from the old protocol and ignores parameters from the new protocol. A system communicating using the new protocol recognizes parameters from both the old and new protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: William Robert Davis, Jason T. Kuo, Ronald Frank Larson, Albert Joseph Sawyer, Kenneth Wayne Shelhamer, Larry Phillip Stoa, Robin Jeffrey Thompson