Patents by Inventor Phillip Heisler

Phillip Heisler 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 self-adjustable design for handling event flows
    Patent number: 6909692
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates an apparatus and a method for limiting the number of specified messages placed onto a network thus to improve network performance. An element management system, upon detecting that a defined threshold has been exceeded for specified types of messages, determines which network element is generating the greatest number of such messages. Thereafter, the element management system instructs the network element that is generating the largest number of alarm messages to cease transmitting a specified type of alarm message. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, if the event flow rate is still too high, the element management system may instruct the cross connect network element to stop sending all threshold types of alarms. Finally, if the event flow rate is still too high, the element management system may cause all QoS alarms from the one network element to not be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Sandeep Sharma, Wei Wei, Phillip Heisler