Patents by Inventor Michael Rydeen

Michael Rydeen 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).

  • Multi-protocol network interface card
    Patent number: 7742489
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a communications network that executes a medium access control (MAC) protocol that permits multiple access to a shared medium or shared switching fabric. The MAC protocol uses a BANDWIDTH_ALLOCATOR to regulate access to the network by sending a permission message to a NODE, allowing it to transmit to a specific set of NODEs for a specific length of time. The medium and switching fabric can carry one or more protocols, each of varying framing format and native bitrate. The switching fabric provides a connection-oriented bufferless data transport service that preserves frame ordering. An illustrative embodiment uses a slotted master/slave time-division multiplexed access (TDMA) scheme to allow flexible provisioning of network bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Chinn, Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Michael Lupinacci, Paul Marichal, John D. Moores, Guy Oliveira, Salil A. Parikh, Mark R. Parquette, William Proulx, Donald Proulx, Michael Rydeen
  • Fault tolerant optical data communication network having auto discovery
    Patent number: 7406029
    Abstract: A fiber-optic networking system that can survive a break in the fiber and restore full connectivity to all nodes in the network. The network can detect the presence of a cut in the fiber, locate the cut, recover from the cut, and restore the communication capacity that was available before the cut. The network is also capable of automatically determining the existence and identity of the nodes in the network, the distance of the node from the headend, and the executing procedures to handle both planned and unplanned (i.e., during a fault) removal of nodes from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene Ciancaglini, Michael Garofalo, James Hart, Steven Lumetta, Muriel Medard, John D. Moores, Salil A. Parikh, Mark R. Parquette, William Proulx, Michael Rydeen
  • Multi-protocol network interface card
    Publication number: 20070258475
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a communications network that executes a medium access control (MAC) protocol that permits multiple access to a shared medium or shared switching fabric. The MAC protocol uses a BANDWIDTH_ALLOCATOR to regulate access to the network by sending a permission message to a NODE, allowing it to transmit to a specific set of NODEs for a specific length of time. The medium and switching fabric can carry one or more protocols, each of varying framing format and native bitrate. The switching fabric provides a connection-oriented bufferless data transport service that preserves frame ordering. An illustrative embodiment uses a slotted master/slave time-division multiplexed access (TDMA) scheme to allow flexible provisioning of network bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Chinn, Gene Ciancaglini, Michael Garofalo, James Hart, Michael Lupinacci, Paul Marichal, John Moores, Guy Oliveira, Salil Parikh, Mark Parquette, William Proulx, Donald Proulx, Michael Rydeen
  • Integrated system and method for controlling telecommunication network data communicated over a local area network and storage data communicated over a storage area network
    Patent number: 7289499
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a communications network that executes a medium access control (MAC) protocol that permits multiple access to a shared medium or shared switching fabric. The MAC protocol uses a bandwidth allocator to regulate access to the network by sending a permission message to a node, allowing it to transmit to a specific set of nodes for a specific length of time. The medium and switching fabric can carry one or more protocols, each of varying framing format and native bitrate. The switching fabric provides a connection-oriented bufferless data transport service that preserves frame ordering. An illustrative embodiment uses a slotted master/slave time-division multiplexed access (TDMA) scheme to allow flexible provisioning of network bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Chinn, Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Steven Lumetta, Michael Lupinacci, Paul Marichal, Muriel Medard, John D. Moores, Guy Oliveira, Salil A. Parikh, Mark R. Parquette, William Proulx, Donald Proulx, Michael Rydeen
  • Multi-protocol network interface card
    Patent number: 7239642
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a communications network that executes a medium access control (MAC) protocol that permits multiple access to a shared medium or shared switching fabric. The MAC protocol uses a BANDWIDTH_ALLOCATOR to regulate access to the network by sending a permission message to a NODE, allowing it to transmit to a specific set of NODEs for a specific length of time. The medium and switching fabric can carry one or more protocols, each of varying framing format and native bitrate. The switching fabric provides a connection-oriented bufferless data transport service that preserves frame ordering. An illustrative embodiment uses a slotted master/slave time-division multiplexed access (TDMA) scheme to allow flexible provisioning of network bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Chinn, Gene M. Ciancaglini, Michael M. Garofalo, James A. Hart, Michael Lupinacci, Paul Marichal, John D. Moores, Guy Oliveira, Salil A. Parikh, Mark R. Parquette, William Proulx, Donald Proulx, Michael Rydeen