Patents by Inventor Thomas Bressoud

Thomas Bressoud 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, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-oriented protocols
    Publication number: 20050027859
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for maintaining a connection between a server and a client by receiving a message, determining whether to store one or more elements of the message, storing the one or more elements of the message when the one or more elements of the message are to be stored, transmitting the message, and determining whether the server has failed and when the server has failed, restoring the server to a pre-failure connection state using the one or more stored message elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Lorenzo Alvisi, Thomas Bressoud, Ayman El-Khashab, Phoebe Weidmann