Patents by Inventor Philip J. Wells

Philip J. Wells 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).

  • Congestion control in a network
    Patent number: 6219712
    Abstract: A message transfer arrangement includes a client node and a server node interconnected by a data link. The client node sequentially receives requests from user applications and generates, in response to each request, command messages for transmission by said interface, each command message including a command and having a transmit slot identifier identifying the request in the sequence of requests received by said request receiver and a transmit sequence identifier identifying the command message in the sequence of command messages relating to the request. The selection of whether to transmit a command message related to one request or to a subsequent request is based on a received slot identifier and a received sequence identifier in a response message. The server node receives command messages from, and transmits response messages to, the client node over the data link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Cabletron Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce E. Mann, Christian D. Saether, Philip J. Wells