Patents by Inventor Bernard Nelson Daines

Bernard Nelson Daines 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).

  • Repeater with flow control device transmitting congestion indication data from output port buffer to associated network node upon port input buffer crossing threshold level
    Patent number: 6192422
    Abstract: A full duplex repeater for collision-free transmission of data packets between node of a local area network. The repeater includes a multiple of ports, a signal path for communicating data between the ports, and an arbitration mechanism. Each of the ports has an input and output buffer. The mechanism routes data through the repeater by activating each of the ports one port at a time, such as with a round robin algorithm, to transmit stored data from the input buffer of an activated port through the signal path to the other ports. The repeater has a congestion control mechanism that includes level indicators and preset high and low threshold levels for the input buffers and a flow control device. The flow control device monitors the level indicators to determine if the amount of data in a buffer exceeds the high threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Nelson Daines, Frank S. Lawrence