Patents by Inventor Bryant Fung

Bryant Fung 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 and apparatus for accelerating CPE-based VPN transmissions over a wireless network
    Patent number: 7536720
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the acceleration of customer premises equipment based virtual private networks (CPE-VPN). To provide virtual private network service from an enterprise network to a mobile client in a secure manner apparatus and method are provided whereby VPN service is provided which allows the wireless network to use data acceleration techniques. This is accomplished by providing a VPN acceleration server that terminates VPN tunnel from the enterprise network, accelerates the data for wireless transmission then encrypts the data for transmission to the mobile client (VPN acceleration client) over an encrypted acceleration tunnel. The encrypted acceleration tunnel may use PKI encryption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Gregory Burdett, Nalin Mistry, Bryant Fung
  • Method and apparatus for accelerating CPE-based VPN transmissions over a wireless network
    Publication number: 20040158705
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the acceleration of customer premises equipment based virtual private networks (CPE-VPN). To provide virtual private network service from an enterprise network to a mobile client in a secure manner apparatus and method are provided whereby VPN service is provided which allows the wireless network to use data acceleration techniques. This is accomplished by providing a VPN acceleration server that terminates VPN tunnel from the enterprise network, accelerates the data for wireless transmission then encrypts the data for transmission to the mobile client (VPN acceleration client) over an encrypted acceleration tunnel. The encrypted acceleration tunnel may use PKI encryption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: Gregory Burdett, Nalin Mistry, Bryant Fung