Patents by Inventor Michael E. Underkoffler

Michael E. Underkoffler 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).

  • Patent number: 5412653
    Abstract: A computer interconnection system provides dynamic switch cascading with a plurality of circuit switches having circuit switch ports coupled by a dynamic connection to provide a dynamically cascadable switching network having a plurality of nodes, including end point and switch nodes. Two individual circuit switches of the network are interconnected by a cross-link group of one or more links. The system transmits frame information including a source endpoint address and a destination endpoint address, each of which can be associated with an endpoint port or a cross-link group, and forms a connection between an endpoint port or a cross-link group to make a connection between a circuit switch port corresponding to a source endpoint address and a circuit switch port corresponding to the destination endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Karl H. Hoppe, Laura H. McGoogan, Leon Skarshinski, Michael E. Underkoffler