Patents by Inventor Eric Fronberg

Eric Fronberg 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 and apparatus for network management system
    Patent number: 8675472
    Abstract: A network management system has a bus and a system controller connected to the bus. The bus has a plurality of fixed ports, where each of the ports is capable of connecting a router card to the system controller. A method of sending a file from the system controller to a router card includes receiving a request packet from the router card where the request packet includes a file type and the port address, identifying the file from the file type and the port address, and sending the file to the router card. The system controller has a memory storing the location of files associated with each of the port addresses, a request receiver for receiving a request for a file of a file type from a router card, an identifier for identifying a file, and a sender for sending the identified file to the router card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Ping Stephen Sun, Bernard Roycroft James, Eric Fronberg
  • Method and apparatus for network management system
    Publication number: 20060161674
    Abstract: A network management system has a bus and a system controller connected to the bus. The bus has a plurality of fixed ports, where each of the ports is capable of connecting a router card to the system controller. A method of sending a file from the system controller to a router card includes receiving a request packet from the router card where the request packet includes a file type and the port address, identifying the file from the file type and the port address, and sending the file to the router card. The system controller has a memory storing the location of files associated with each of the port addresses, a request receiver for receiving a request for a file of a file type from a router card, an identifier for identifying a file, and a sender for sending the identified file to the router card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Wei-Ping Sun, Bernard James, Eric Fronberg
  • Method and apparatus for network management system
    Patent number: 7031263
    Abstract: A network management system has a bus and a system controller connected to the bus. The bus has a plurality of fixed ports, where each of the ports is capable of connecting a router card to the system controller. A method of sending a file from the system controller to a router card includes receiving a request packet from the router card where the request packet includes a file type and the port address, identifying the file from the file type and the port address, and sending the file to the router card. The system controller has a memory storing the location of files associated with each of the port addresses, a request receiver for receiving a request for a file of a file type from a router card, an identifier for identifying a file, and a sender for sending the identified file to the router card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Ping Stephen Sun, Bernard Roycroft James, Eric Fronberg