Patents by Inventor Kumar Nellicherry Sivarajan

Kumar Nellicherry Sivarajan 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 system for an efficient multiple access polling protocol for interactive communication
    Patent number: 5889963
    Abstract: A polling procedure providing the capabilities to assign and dynamically modify a user's communication parameters (i.e., response allocation and polling rate) based on the user's bandwidth requirements. In addition, the polling procedure instructs the users to delay their responses as a function of round-trip propagation delay and remaining response allocation for previously polled users to ensure that poll responses from separate users do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Inder Sarat Gopal, Roch Andre Guerin, Kumar Nellicherry Sivarajan