Patents by Inventor Mark Ting

Mark Ting 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for inserting data into a communications session
    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
  • Methods and apparatus for inserting data into a communications session
    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