Patents by Inventor James Whitney Kimbrow

James Whitney Kimbrow 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).

  • Efficient virtual concatenation datapath for SONET/SDH
    Patent number: 7424036
    Abstract: The present invention is a SONET payload processing system capable of handling virtual concatenation of SONET payloads. The payload processing system enables combinations of sub-frames, comprising an arbitrary number of virtual concatenation data streams, to be multiplexed into a single SONET frame stream. The present invention further provides a processing system that is not limited by the number of sub-frames or the grouping arrangement. The payload processing system accepts both virtual concatenation and contiguous concatenation within the same SONET frame stream and processes them into blocks of data that do not intermix information from different channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: PMC-Sierra, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alexander, David Wong, James Whitney Kimbrow