Patents by Inventor Carlos W. Moran

Carlos W. Moran 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).

  • Deterministic selection of an optimal restoration route in a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 5812524
    Abstract: A deterministic approach further refines the self healing network (SHN) distributed restoration algorithm (DRA) used for restoring traffic disrupted between two adjacent nodes. Upon detection of a fault, the sender node constructs a restoration signal that includes a weighed identifier field. The restoration message is broadcast to tandem nodes each of which had been provisioned with a memory table having stored therein a plurality of weights each associated with a particular spare link connected to the node. Upon detection of an incoming restoration message, a tandem node retrieves from its table the weight associated with the spare link from which the restoration message was received. The weighed identifier is retrieved from the restoration message and updated with the weight that the tandem node had retrieved from its table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos W. Moran, Louis Steven Thibodeaux
  • Deterministic selection of an optimal restoration route in a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 5590119
    Abstract: A deterministic approach further refines the self healing network (SHN) distributed restoration algorithm (DRA) used for restoring traffic disrupted between two adjacent nodes. Upon detection of a fault, the sender node constructs a restoration signal that includes a weighed identifier field. The restoration message is broadcast to tandem nodes each of which had been provisioned with a memory table having stored therein a plurality of weights each associated with a particular spare link connected to the node. Upon detection of an incoming restoration message, a tandem node retrieves from its table the weight associated with the spare link from which the restoration message was received. The weighed identifier is retrieved from the restoration message and updated with the weight that the tandem node had retrieved from its table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos W. Moran, Louis S. Thibodeaux