Patents by Inventor Mart L. Molle

Mart L. Molle 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).

  • Repeaters for reducing collisions in an ethernet network
    Patent number: 5978383
    Abstract: An IEEE 802.3 CSMA-CD local area network is arranged with point-to-point links between hosts and repeaters. The devices, whether hosts or repeaters, can ignore a portion of an incoming signal following a collision in order to improve the efficiency of the network. Each device includes a filter to mask the presence of the incoming signal from a consumer, e.g., the MAC sublayer of a network interface or the core of a repeater. If the incoming signal is masked, the devices may transmit an outgoing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Mart L. Molle
  • Binary logarithmic arbitration method for carrier sense multiple access with collision detection network medium access control protocols
    Patent number: 5600651
    Abstract: A medium access control sublayer CSMA/CD protocol which is interoperable with Standard 802.3. The collision counters of transmitting and non-transmitting hosts are updated symmetrically. The counters are incremented after each collision, and are reset after a successful transmission of a burst of packets or after a sufficient delay in transmission. The host generates a random backoff delay from the collision counter using truncated exponential distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Inventor: Mart L. Molle