Patents by Inventor Peter Stropparo

Peter Stropparo 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).

  • Method and apparatus for frequency offset control of ethernet packets over a transport network
    Patent number: 7593327
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for compensating for a frequency offset between an ingress local area network and an egress local area network that communicate over a transport network. The bandwidth of an egress port is adjusted by varying an inter-packet gap size between each packet so that the packets can be delivered without overflowing an egress buffer. The size of the inter-packet gap is reduced when the frequency of the ingress local area network is greater than the frequency of the egress local area network. The size of the inter-packet gap is increased when the frequency of the ingress local area network is less than the frequency of the egress local area network. The size of the egress inter-packet gap may be statically or dynamically adjusted to compensate for a frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Bordogna, Adam B. Healey, Peter A. Stropparo
  • Method and apparatus for frequency offset control of ethernet packets over a transport network
    Publication number: 20050041695
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for compensating for a frequency offset between an ingress local area network and an egress local area network that communicate over a transport network. The bandwidth of an egress port is adjusted by varying an inter-packet gap size between each packet so that the packets can be delivered without overflowing an egress buffer. The size of the inter-packet gap is reduced when the frequency of the ingress local area network is greater than the frequency of the egress local area network. The size of the inter-packet gap is increased when the frequency of the ingress local area network is less than the frequency of the egress local area network. The size of the egress inter-packet gap may be statically or dynamically adjusted to compensate for a frequency offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Mark Bordogna, Adam Healey, Peter Stropparo