Patents by Inventor Donald F. Brockhage

Donald F. Brockhage 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).

  • Transparent circuit emulation for packet switching network
    Patent number: 6359887
    Abstract: A communications network is made up of a number of nodes. Frames of data transported on a circuit line are received at a first node of the network and segmented into packets such that a first packet includes a first portion of data from a frame and a second packet includes a second portion of data from the frame. A frame count value is added to a header in each of the first packet and the second packet. In addition, a first offset value is added to the first header and a second offset value is added to the second header. The first and second offset values correspond to respective temporal locations of the first and second portions of data from the frame of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald F. Brockhage, Michael D. Savini
  • Transparent circuit emulation for packet switching network
    Patent number: 5987030
    Abstract: A communications network is made up of a number of nodes. Frames of data transported on a circuit line are received at a first node of the network and segmented into packets such that a first packet includes a first portion of data from a frame and a second packet includes a second portion of data from the frame. A frame count value is added to a header in each of the first packet and the second packet. In addition, a first offset value is added to the first header and a second offset value is added to the second header. The first and second offset values correspond to respective temporal locations of the first and second portions of data from the frame of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald F. Brockhage, Michael D. Savini