Patents by Inventor Brent Ashley Williams

Brent Ashley Williams 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 of regulating a flow of data in a communication system and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 6715007
    Abstract: A flow of data (26) is regulated in a communication system (20). A data rate is established in each of a data source (24) and a data sink (28). The data (26) is transmitted by the data source (24) and written into a buffer (32) at the source data rate, then read from the buffer (32) and received by the data sink (28) at the sink data rate. The level (62) of data (26) in the buffer (32) is monitored, and a rate-control signal (74) is dispatched to either the data source (24) or sink (28) when it is determined the buffer data level (62) is decreasing or increasing while at a lower or upper data-level threshold (66, 68), respectively. One of the data rates is adjusted in response to a rate-control signal (74).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: General Dynamics Decision Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Ashley Williams, John Abel, Keith Matthew Nolan, Keith Palermo, Scott Demarest