Patents by Inventor Kenneth Earl Mueller, II

Kenneth Earl Mueller, II 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).

  • Patent number: 7840645
    Abstract: The invention is directed to methods and techniques in a communications device for delivering content. In particular the technique includes intercepting, from a requesting device, an initial request for initial content accessible from an initial content source and in response to intercepting the initial request, creating redirection information indicating an identity of secondary content to be accessed by the requesting device in addition to the initial content in the initial request and providing the redirection information to the requesting device, such that the requesting device accesses both the secondary content from the secondary content source as well as the initial content from the initial content source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Miles Chase, James A. Aviani, Bruce Arthur Lueckenhoff, Kenneth Earl Mueller, II
  • Patent number: 7624190
    Abstract: Mechanisms and techniques provide a system that operates in a data communications device such as a switch or a router to provide a technique for inserting data into packets associated with a communications session between a first and second computerized devices. The technique comprises receiving a first packet containing data being propagated from the first computerized device to the second computerized device in the communications session and inserting a first amount of extra data into the first packet to alter the size of the first packet and forwarding the first packet including the first amount of extra data to the second computerized device. By monitoring and adjusting sequence and acknowledgement information from with in the data communications device, data can be inserted into packets without disrupting connection state information maintained by and expected by each computerized device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Aviani, Kenneth Earl Mueller, II, Jean-Philippe Champagne, Mark Ting
  • Patent number: 6976085
    Abstract: Mechanisms and techniques provide a system that operates in a data communications device such as a switch or a router to provide a technique for inserting data into packets associated with a communications session between a first and second computerized devices. The technique comprises receiving a first packet containing data being propagated from the first computerized device to the second computerized device in the communications session and inserting a first amount of extra data into the first packet to alter the size of the first packet and forwarding the first packet including the first amount of extra data to the second computerized device. By monitoring and adjusting sequence and acknowledgement information from with in the data communications device, data can be inserted into packets without disrupting connection state information maintained by and expected by each computerized device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Aviani, Kenneth Earl Mueller, II, Jean-Philippe Champagne, Mark Ting