Patents by Inventor Jeff Blanchette

Jeff Blanchette 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 performing flow control in a wireless communications system
    Patent number: 6192029
    Abstract: A data communications system includes a server router (102), such as an access controller gateway, operably coupled to at least one client router (104), such as a base radio controller, by an asynchronous link, such as a LAN (106). The client router forwards data received from the server router and stored in the client router's outbound queue (110) synchronously to a device, such as a mobile station (202). The client router's outbound queue is maintained between a lower queue limit and an upper queue limit so as to both reduce the occurrence of data starvation and reduce the amount of data lost should the mobile station hand off to a new serving site. The server router calculates an optimum average send rate and transmits data in bursts at regular intervals, and adjusts the average send rate in response to changes in the outbound rate of the client router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Rod Averbuch, Jeff Blanchette, Richard Van Egeren, Todd A. Leigh