Patents by Inventor Michael Osbourne

Michael Osbourne 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).

  • Address management in PNNI hierarchical networks
    Patent number: 7177951
    Abstract: Address management methods and apparatus are provided for a node serving as peer group leader for a peer group of nodes in one level of the hierarchy of a PNNI hierarchical network, whereby the peer group leader represents the peer group to one or more neighboring nodes in the next level up of the hierarchy. The peer group leader has a memory (2) for storing peer group topology data (4), comprising address data which is supplied to the peer group leader from nodes in the peer group and represents addresses for access by the network, and peer group leader topology data (5), comprising address data which is supplied to said neighboring nodes by the peer group leader and represents addresses accessible via the peer group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Dykeman, Michael Osbourne, Paolo Scotton, Olen Stokes, Claude Basso, Marianne Aubry, Minh-Tri Do Khac