Patents by Inventor Cloyd Stanley McIlvaine

Cloyd Stanley McIlvaine 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).

  • Adding links simultaneously to a multilink bundle using bandwidth allocation protocol
    Patent number: 6202094
    Abstract: In a point-to-point multilink bundle coupling two peers over a network, a simultaneous addition of a plurality of links may be performed using Bandwidth Allocation Protocol and Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol. When one peer desires to add more links to the multilink bundle, a request is sent to the other peer requesting the addition of the links and means for establishing the links, such as telephone numbers. In response, the second peer will respond with a message indicating the number of links the second peer is capable of adding along with the associated means for establishing these links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Bruce Grosser, Jr., Cloyd Stanley McIlvaine
  • HDLC asynchronous to synchronous converter
    Patent number: 6065082
    Abstract: Communication, using a synchronous protocol, over a synchronous communications link, between synchronous application programs executed on a terminal (i.e., personal computer, PC) with an asynchronous byte-oriented interface and a PC with a synchronous frame orientated interface is made possible by enhancing the PC with the asynchronous byte-oriented interface with a device which modifies the data to be transmitted by inserting framing flags and transparency characters before the data passes through the COMM port (asynchronous byte-oriented interface) and extracting the transparency characters after the data exits the COMM port. As a consequence, the PC with the frame-oriented interface does not have to be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dana Lynn Blair, Gordon Taylor Davis, Cloyd Stanley McIlvaine
  • HDLC asynchronous to synchronous converter
    Patent number: 5859984
    Abstract: Communication, using a synchronous protocol, over a synchronous communications link, between synchronous application programs executed on a terminal (i.e., personal computer, PC) with an asynchronous byte-oriented interface and a PC with a synchronous frame orientated interface is made possible by enhancing the PC with the asynchronous byte-oriented interface with a device which modifies the data to be transmitted by inserting framing flags and transparency characters before the data passes through the COMM port (asynchronous byte-oriented interface) and extracting the transparency characters after the data exits the COMM port. As a consequence, the PC with the frame-oriented interface does not have to be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dana Lynn Blair, Gordon Taylor Davis, Cloyd Stanley McIlvaine