Patents by Inventor Charles Colbourn

Charles Colbourn 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).

  • Patent number: 9590918
    Abstract: A medium access control (MAC) protocol may be used to facilitate communication between nodes in a network. A protocol for allocating network resources between a set of nodes with demands may be an adaptive topology- and load-aware (TLA) allocation protocol. The allocation protocol may be executed by a bidder algorithm and an auctioneer algorithm on each node of the network. Claims and offers may be generated at each node and transmitted to other nodes on the network. The claims and offers may be updated as load and topology of the network change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Jonathan Lutz, Charles Colbourn, Violet Syrotiuk
  • Publication number: 20160191417
    Abstract: A medium access control (MAC) protocol may be used to facilitate communication between nodes in a network. A protocol for allocating network resources between a set of nodes with demands may be an adaptive topology- and load-aware (TLA) allocation protocol. The allocation protocol may be executed by a bidder algorithm and an auctioneer algorithm on each node of the network. Claims and offers may be generated at each node and transmitted to other nodes on the network. The claims and offers may be updated as load and topology of the network change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jonathan Lutz, Charles Colbourn, Violet Syrotiuk