Patents by Inventor Edwin Ibe

Edwin Ibe 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 in-band communication of management information in a backplane architecture of a stackable ethernet repeater
    Patent number: 5805596
    Abstract: In a backplane architecture for a logical stackable Ethernet repeater for an Ethernet network having a plurality of stackable repeater modules, each one of the stackable repeater modules being connectable via bus-type signal lines to one another for communicating packets via bus-type signal lines, and each one of said stackable repeater modules including a plurality of ports for connection to stations, a method is provided for communicating management information wherein a management module collects information about packets on the backplane from repeater modules, and the repeater modules transmit packet information only via bus-type signal lines. In a specific embodiment, transmitting comprises appending after each packet at each source port of each repeater module an information footer having a select number of information units, and conveying each packet with the information footer on the bus-type signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: 3 Com Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Kranzler, Wen-Tsung Tang, Edwin Ibe