Patents by Inventor Ivan P. Auer

Ivan P. Auer 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).

  • Packet address look-ahead technique for use in implementing a high speed packet switch
    Patent number: 5166926
    Abstract: Apparatus, and accompanying methods for use therein, for a large (e.g. approximately 1 Terabit/second), fault tolerant packet switch (200), particularly suited for asynchronous mode transfer (ATM) communication, which utilizes cell address look-ahead in conjunction with parallel planes of self-routing cross-points (550), staggered time phased contention resolution and shared memory based input and output modules (260 and 270, respectively). Each incoming packet cell has added thereto an additional header field containing information identifying a particular output module and a particular output port of that module. An input module associated with the switching crosspoints changes the additional header information to identify the particular output module of the next subsequent packet cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Bell Communications Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo Cisneros, Gary A. Hayward, Ivan P. Auer