Patents by Inventor David Joseph Kinkade

David Joseph Kinkade 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 for verifying responses to messages using a barrier message
    Patent number: 5675579
    Abstract: A processing system includes a number of communicatively interconnected system elements structured to send and receive data in the form of message packets. Message packets sent to a destination with expectation of response are timed, and if no response is received within an allotted time, a barrier transaction message packet is sent to the destination. The destination is required to provide a barrier transaction response to the barrier transaction packet only after it has responded to, or discarded, all prior received message packets requiring response by the destination. When the source of the barrier transaction message packet receives the barrier transaction response it can be assured that the communication path to the destination is in order, and no prior (late) responses will be forthcoming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Tandem Computers Incorporated
    Inventors: William Joel Watson, William Edward Baker, William F. Bruckert, William Patterson Bunton, David J. Garcia, Robert W. Horst, Geoffrey I. Iswandhi, David Joseph Kinkade, David Paul Sonnier