Patents by Inventor Nicholas J. Cadwgan

Nicholas J. Cadwgan 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).

  • Logical transport resource traffic management
    Patent number: 8139485
    Abstract: A method for managing data packets passing through an Ethernet node having multiple ingress ports and multiple egress ports, the ingress ports receiving the data packets from at least one service, and the egress ports configured with at least one Logical Transport Resource (LTR) configured as a predefined path between one of the egress ports and a destination in the Ethernet network. The method comprises mapping one or more of the services to each of the at least one LTR, shaping each of the at least one LTR to a configured rate, and transmitting data packets to the Ethernet network via the egress ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Arseneault, Chris Barrett, Allan Beaudette, Nicholas J. Cadwgan, Pablo Frank, Natalie Giroux, Frederic Perras, Brian R. Smith, Kenneth W. Young
  • LOGICAL TRANSPORT RESOURCE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20100182904
    Abstract: A method for managing data packets passing through an Ethernet node having multiple ingress ports and multiple egress ports, the ingress ports receiving the data packets from at least one service, and the egress ports configured with at least one Logical Transport Resource (LTR) configured as a predefined path between one of the egress ports and a destination in the Ethernet network. The method comprises mapping one or more of the services to each of the at least one LTR, shaping each of the at least one LTR to a configured rate, and transmitting data packets to the Ethernet network via the egress ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Gridpoint Systems Inc.
    Inventors: James D. Arseneault, Chris Barrett, Allan Beaudette, Nicholas J. Cadwgan, Pablo Frank, Natalie Giroux, Frederic Perras, Brian R. Smith, Kenneth W. Young