Patents by Inventor Guy Claude Fortin
Guy Claude Fortin 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).
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Patent number: 9246626Abstract: A network operating system NOS for an agile optical network with a plurality of mesh interconnected switching nodes, manages the network using an object-oriented network information model. The model is common to all applications requiring the data stored in the network managed information base. The core model can be expanded for serving specific application areas. The NOS is organized in layers, at the optical module level, connection level and network level. A distributed topology server DTS organizes the physical, logical and topological data defining all network entities as managed objects MO and topology objects TO for constructing a complete network view. The network information model associates a network element NE information model, specified by managed objects MO and a topological information model, specified by topology objects TO.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messenschmidt, Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Hock Gin Lim, Ralph Stemmer
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Patent number: 8165466Abstract: The network operating system includes an embedded platform for controlling operation of an agile optical network at the physical layer level. At the module embedded level, each module (card-pack) is provided with an embedded controller EC that monitors and control operation of the optical modules. At the next level, each shelf is provided with a shelf processor SP that monitors and control operation of the ECs over a backplane network. All optical modules are connected over an optical trace channel to send/receive trace messages that can then be used to determine network connectivity. At the next, link management level, a network services controller NSC controls the SPs in a negotiated span of control, over a link network. The control is address-based; each NSC receives ranges of addresses for the entities in its control, and distributes these addresses to the SPs, which in turn distribute addresses to the ECs in their control.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messerschmidt, Paul Edward Beer, Robert George Alexander Craig, Hock Gin Lim, Youxun Duan
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Publication number: 20100247096Abstract: The network operating system includes an embedded platform for controlling operation of an agile optical network at the physical layer level. At the module embedded level, each module (card-pack) is provided with an embedded controller EC that monitors and control operation of the optical modules. At the next level, each shelf is provided with a shelf processor SP that monitors and control operation of the ECs over a backplane network. All optical modules are connected over an optical trace channel to send/receive trace messages that can then be used to determine network connectivity. At the next, link management level, a network services controller NSC controls the SPs in a negotiated span of control, over a link network. The control is address-based; each NSC receives ranges of addresses for the entities in its control, and distributes these addresses to the SPs, which in turn distribute addresses to the ECs in their control.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messerschmidt, Paul Edward Beer, Robert George Alexander Craig, Hock Gin Lim, Youxun Duan
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Patent number: 7747165Abstract: The network operating system includes an embedded platform for controlling operation of an agile optical network at the physical layer level. At the module embedded level, each module (card-pack) is provided with an embedded controller EC that monitors and control operation of the optical modules. At the next level, each shelf is provided with a shelf processor SP that monitors and control operation of the ECs over a backplane network. All optical modules are connected over an optical trace channel to send/receive trace messages that can then be used to determine network connectivity. At the next, link management level, a network services controller NSC controls the SPs in a negotiated span of control, over a link network. The control is address-based; each NSC receives ranges of addresses for the entities in its control, and distributes these addresses to the SPs, which in turn distribute addresses to the ECs in their control.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messerschmidt, Paul Edward Beer, Robert George Alexander Craig, Hock Gin Lim, Youxun Duan
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Publication number: 20080212963Abstract: A network operating system NOS for an agile optical network with a plurality of mesh interconnected switching nodes, manages the network using an object-oriented network information model. The model is common to all applications requiring the data stored in the network managed information base. The core model can be expanded for serving specific application areas. The NOS is organized in layers, at the optical module level, connection level and network level. A distributed topology server DTS organizes the physical, logical and topological data defining all network entities as managed objects MO and topology objects TO for constructing a complete network view. The network information model associates a network element NE information model, specified by managed objects MO and a topological information model, specified by topology objects TO.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messenschmidt, Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Hock Gin Lim, Ralph Stemmer
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Patent number: 7263290Abstract: A network operating system NOS for an agile optical network with a plurality of mesh interconnected switching nodes, manages the network using an object-oriented network information model. The model is common to all applications requiring the data stored in the network managed information base. The core model can be expanded for serving specific application areas. The NOS is organized in layers, at the optical module level, connection level and network level. A distributed topology server DTS organizes the physical, logical and topological data defining all network entities as managed objects MO and topology objects TO for constructing a complete network view. The network information model associates a network element NE information model, specified by managed objects MO and a topological information model, specified by topology objects TO.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messenschmidt, Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Hock Gin Lim, Ralph Stemmer
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Publication number: 20030228146Abstract: A network operating system NOS for an agile optical network with a plurality of mesh interconnected switching nodes, manages the network using an object-oriented network information model. The model is common to all applications requiring the data stored in the network managed information base. The core model can be expanded for serving specific application areas. The NOS is organized in layers, at the optical module level, connection level and network level. A distributed topology server DTS organizes the physical, logical and topological data defining all network entities as managed objects MO and topology objects TO for constructing a complete network view. The network information model associates a network element NE information model, specified by managed objects MO and a topological information model, specified by topology objects TO.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2002Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messenschmidt, Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Hock Gin Lim, Ralph Stemmer
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Publication number: 20020191241Abstract: The network operating system includes an embedded platform for controlling operation of an agile optical network at the physical layer level. At the module embedded level, each module (card-pack) is provided with an embedded controller EC that monitors and control operation of the optical modules. At the next level, each shelf is provided with a shelf processor SP that monitors and control operation of the ECs over a backplane network. All optical modules are connected over an optical trace channel to send/receive trace messages that can then be used to determine network connectivity. At the next, link management level, a network services controller NSC controls the SPs in a negotiated span of control, over a link network. The control is address-based; each NSC receives ranges of addresses for the entities in its control, and distributes these addresses to the SPs, which in turn distribute addresses to the ECs in their control.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventors: Jeffrey Kenneth Emery, Guy Claude Fortin, Markus Messerschmidt, Paul Edward Beer, Robert George Alexander Craig, Hock Gin Lim, Youxun Duan