Patents by Inventor Alan Hurren

Alan Hurren 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).

  • Patent number: 6952396
    Abstract: A control system enables transport of payload data across a dual counter rotating ring (DCRR) network having two or more nodes, each node providing access to the DCRR network by a respective local area network (LAN) subtending the node. The control system comprises a topology learning entity operative within each node for monitoring individual, links of the DCRR, discovering the active topology of the DCRR, communicating topology changes to other nodes in the DCRR, and informing frame forwarding and learning processes of the topology to enable failover to redundant resource upon detection of a network component failure. A frame forwarding process selects a shortest path route between a source and a destination node in the DCRR, and forwards frames to the destination node via the selected shortest path route. An address learning process inspects a source medium access control (MAC) address in each received frame to learn a shortest path route for each MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Peter Martin Kenneth Cottreau, David MacDonald Delaney, Alan Hurren, Wang-Hsin Peng, Mark Cobbold