Patents by Inventor Larry Henry Steinhorst

Larry Henry Steinhorst 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 upgrading a fiber optics network
    Patent number: 8233800
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing communications service in a communications ring undergoing an upgrade process includes increasing an existing rate of a node to a higher rate. With the increase, the node is operable to transmit a second frame at the higher rate. The second frame has a higher number of time slots than a first frame having a number of slots equal to N. The method also includes occupying a number of the time slots of the second frame equal to N using data to be received by an existing node. The method also includes providing at least one identifier to the existing node that will receive the second frame. The identifier identifies the occupied time slots of the second frame. The method also includes transmitting the second frame of data to the existing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Larry Henry Steinhorst, Wilson kit-man Chan, Junji Yamamoto
  • Method and system for upgrading a fiber optics network
    Publication number: 20040264962
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing communications service in a communications ring undergoing an upgrade process is provided. The communications ring is formed from a plurality of existing nodes each operable to transmit, at an existing rate, a first frame having a number of occupied time slots equal to N occupied by data. N is an integer. The method includes increasing the existing rate of a node to a higher rate. With the increase, the node is operable to transmit a second frame at the higher rate. The second frame has a higher number of time slots than the first frame. The method also includes occupying a number of the time slots of the second frame equal to N using data to be received by an existing node. The method also includes providing at least one identifier to the existing node that will receive the second frame. The identifier identifies the occupied time slots of the second frame. The method also includes transmitting the second frame of data to the existing node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Larry Henry Steinhorst, Wilson Kit-man Chan, Junji Yamamoto