Patents by Inventor Thomas Rower

Thomas Rower 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).

  • Multi-protocol agile framer
    Patent number: 6654383
    Abstract: A data framer capable of supporting at least two different data framing protocols potentially present in a source data stream includes two or more framing circuits and a controller coupled to the framing circuits. Each of the framing circuits is configured to extract user data from the source data stream in accordance with a different data framing protocol associated with the respective framing circuit. The controller is operative to: (i) receive the source data stream and automatically determine which of the at least two different data framing protocols corresponds to the source data stream; and (ii) route the source data stream to one of the first framing circuit and the second framing circuit in response to a match between the determined data framing protocol of the source data stream and one of the first and second data framing protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Louis Haymes, Mark B. Ritter, Thomas Röwer
  • Multi-protocol agile framer
    Publication number: 20020191640
    Abstract: A data framer capable of supporting at least two different data framing protocols potentially present in a source data stream includes two or more framing circuits and a controller coupled to the framing circuits. Each of the framing circuits is configured to extract user data from the source data stream in accordance with a different data framing protocol associated with the respective framing circuit. The controller is operative to: (i) receive the source data stream and automatically determine which of the at least two different data framing protocols corresponds to the source data stream; and (ii) route the source data stream to one of the first framing circuit and the second framing circuit in response to a match between the determined data framing protocol of the source data stream and one of the first and second data framing protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Louis Haymes, Mark B. Ritter, Thomas Rower