Patents by Inventor Alfred D'Souza
Alfred D'Souza 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).
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Patent number: 8918523Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one router. The GUI predicts scheduled bandwidth utilization along the selected path for a variety of residents wishing to communicate across the path. The GUI may be utilized for initializing all media aggregation managers on the network along with provisioning each of the routers on the selected path. The GUI provisions all of the routers and initializes all of the media aggregation managers on the selected path simultaneously in order to accomplish the predicted schedule of usage provided by the GUI to the user and force all communication packets communicated between the residents to travel along the selected path.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Prom KS Mgmt Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam, Rakesh Patel
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Patent number: 8458332Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for multiplexing application flows. According to one embodiment, a predetermined portion of available bandwidth is reserved over a path through a network communicatively coupling a first network device associated with a first set of terminals and a second network device associated with a second set of terminals for real-time communication sessions among multiple applications running on the first set of terminals and the second set of terminals as a real-time bandwidth pool. The real-time bandwidth pool is thereafter shared among multiple real-time communication sessions involving one or more terminals in the first set of terminals and one or more terminals in the second set of terminals by selectively admitting application sessions involving the one or more terminals in the first set of terminals and the one or more terminals in the second set of terminals based upon currently available resources in the real-time bandwidth pool.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Prom KS Mgmt Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam
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Publication number: 20120224586Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one router. The GUI predicts scheduled bandwidth utilization along the selected path for a variety of residents wishing to communicate across the path. The GUI may be utilized for initializing all media aggregation managers on the network along with provisioning each of the routers on the selected path. The GUI provisions all of the routers and initializes all of the media aggregation managers on the selected path simultaneously in order to accomplish the predicted schedule of usage provided by the GUI to the user and force all communication packets communicated between the residents to travel along the selected path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: PROM KS MGMT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYInventors: Siddhartha NAG, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam, Rakesh PATEL
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Patent number: 8185640Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one router. The GUI predicts scheduled bandwidth utilization along the selected path for a variety of residents wishing to communicate across the path. The GUI may be utilized for initializing all media aggregation managers on the network along with provisioning each of the routers on the selected path. The GUI provisions all of the routers and initializes all of the media aggregation managers on the selected path simultaneously in order to accomplish the predicted schedule of usage provided by the GUI to the user and force all communication packets communicated between the residents to travel along the selected path.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Prominence Networks, Inc.Inventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam, Rakesh Patel
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Patent number: 8032646Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for administering a communication network. In one embodiment, a first interface screen depicts nodes within a network. The nodes include a pair of media aggregation managers providing multiplexing/demultiplexing of media traffic associated with multiple application sessions between a pair of communities onto a preallocated reservation protocol session between the media aggregation managers. The media aggregation managers are visually distinguishable from other nodes. A second interface screen depicts potential paths through the network. Each potential path is capable of transferring media packets between the media aggregation managers.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Prom KS Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam, Rakesh Patel
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Patent number: 7886054Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one router. The GUI predicts scheduled bandwidth utilization along the selected path for a variety of residents wishing to communicate across the path. The GUI may be utilized for initializing all media aggregation managers on the network along with provisioning each of the routers on the selected path. The GUI provisions all of the routers and initializes all of the media aggregation managers on the selected path simultaneously in order to accomplish the predicted schedule of usage provided by the GUI to the user and force all communication packets communicated between the residents to travel along the selected path.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2000Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Inventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam, Rakesh Patel
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Publication number: 20100325293Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one router. The GUI predicts scheduled bandwidth utilization along the selected path for a variety of residents wishing to communicate across the path. The GUI may be utilized for initializing all media aggregation managers on the network along with provisioning each of the routers on the selected path. The GUI provisions all of the routers and initializes all of the media aggregation managers on the selected path simultaneously in order to accomplish the predicted schedule of usage provided by the GUI to the user and force all communication packets communicated between the residents to travel along the selected path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Inventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam, Rakesh Patel
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Publication number: 20060056298Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for multiplexing application flows. According to one embodiment, a predetermined portion of available bandwidth is reserved over a path through a network communicatively coupling a first network device associated with a first set of terminals and a second network device associated with a second set of terminals for real-time communication sessions among multiple applications running on the first set of terminals and the second set of terminals as a real-time bandwidth pool. The real-time bandwidth pool is thereafter shared among multiple real-time communication sessions involving one or more terminals in the first set of terminals and one or more terminals in the second set of terminals by selectively admitting application sessions involving the one or more terminals in the first set of terminals and the one or more terminals in the second set of terminals based upon currently available resources in the real-time bandwidth pool.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2005Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicant: Prominence Networks, Inc.Inventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam
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Patent number: 7013338Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for multiplexing application flows over a pre-allocated bandwidth reservation protocol session. According to one embodiment, a pre-allocated reservation protocol session, such as an RSVP session, is shared by one or more application sessions. The reservation protocol session is pre-allocated over a path between a first network device associated with a first user community and a second network device associated with a second user community based upon an estimated usage of the path for application sessions between users of the first and second user communities. Subsequently, the one or more application sessions are dynamically aggregated by multiplexing application flows associated with the one or more individual application sessions onto the pre-allocated reservation protocol session at the first network device and demultiplexing at the second network device.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2000Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Prominence Networks, Inc.Inventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Naveed Alam
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Publication number: 20060020694Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for administering a communication network. In one embodiment, a first interface screen depicts nodes within a network. The nodes include a pair of media aggregation managers providing multiplexing/demultiplexing of media traffic associated with multiple application sessions between a pair of communities onto a preallocated reservation protocol session between the media aggregation managers. The media aggregation managers are visually distinguishable from other nodes. A second interface screen depicts potential paths through the network. Each potential path is capable of transferring media packets between the media aggregation managers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Applicant: Prominence Networks, Inc.Inventors: Siddhartha Nag, Alfred D'Souza, Neveed Alam, Rakesh Patel