Patents by Inventor Ayman El-Khashab

Ayman El-Khashab 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
  • System and method for acquiring and processing complex images
    Publication number: 20040179738
    Abstract: In digital holographic imaging systems, streamed holograms are compared on a pixel-by-pixel basis for defect detection after hologram generation. An automated image matching, registration and comparison method with feedback confidence allows for runtime wafer inspection, scene matching refinement, rotational wafer alignment and the registration and comparison of difference images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: X. Long Dai, Ayman El-Khashab, Martin A. Hunt, Mark Schulze, Clarence E. Thomas, Edgar Voelkl
  • Method, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-oriented protocols
    Publication number: 20010056492
    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: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas C. Bressoud, Lorenzo Alvisi, Ayman El-Khashab, Phoebe kay Weidmann