Patents by Inventor Mark Gibbon

Mark Gibbon 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 priority call setup and restoration in an optical communications system
    Patent number: 7756009
    Abstract: A call setup and restoration schema is disclosed for providing an improved priority-based call setup and restoration schema in an optical communications system, allowing higher priority connections access to bandwidth by user-definable parameters. The call setup and restoration schema includes allowing higher priority connections to claim the resources of lower priority connections, and restoring them when bandwidth is available, or bumping another, even lower priority, connections. This aids in providing access to bandwidth by high priority services and in preventing outages or connection delays for high priority connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Evert De Boer, Mark Gibbon, Jean-Pierre Coupal, Darek Skalecki