Patents by Inventor John D. Bray

John D. Bray 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).

  • Access device-based fragmentation and interleaving support for tunneled communication sessions
    Patent number: 7761508
    Abstract: Link fragmentation and interleaving at an access device located between a point to point link and a tunneled connection is provided. A method of access device-based link fragmentation and interleaving is also provided. The method includes receiving frames through a tunnel from a network server, fragmenting at least some of the frames from the network server, and sending fragmented and unfragmented frames over a data link to an endpoint device. The frames may be multilink point to point protocol (MLPPP) frames and the frames may be received through a layer two tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel. The method can include scanning a frame for PPP options and removing options related to MLPPP negotiation and then forwarding the frame to a network server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Evans, William Mark Townsley, Gary Lee Harris, Jeffrey D. Haag, John D. Bray
  • System for using special links in multi-link bundles
    Patent number: 7230918
    Abstract: Selected categories of data are assigned to priority links in a multilink bundle. In one example, virtual circuits in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or Frame Relay (FR) network are assigned priority status and particular types of high priority data are assigned only to the priority virtual circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jagadeesh Maiya, Robert F. Verkroost, Ashit Tandon, John D. Bray