Patents by Inventor Randall Paul Joseph Ethier

Randall Paul Joseph Ethier 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).

  • Patent number: 11843645
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: THE MITRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Gene Lee Harrison
  • Publication number: 20220174101
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph ETHIER, Gene Lee HARRISON
  • Patent number: 11310078
    Abstract: Techniques for sending encrypted data includes establishing a plurality of different links between a first node and a different second node. The different links are different physical layer links or different virtual private network (VPN) links or some combination. The method also includes encrypting plaintext using a first value for an encryption parameter to produce ciphertext. Further, the method includes sending a first plurality of messages that indicate the ciphertext using at least one link of the plurality of different links. Still further, the method includes sending a different second plurality of messages that indicate the first value for the encryption parameter using at least one different link of the plurality of different links without introducing a random bit error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Anatoly Y. Rodionov, Jordan Steven Feldman
  • Patent number: 11196782
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Gene Lee Harrison
  • Publication number: 20210314373
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph ETHIER, Gene Lee HARRISON
  • Patent number: 10868843
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Gene Lee Harrison
  • Publication number: 20190289044
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph ETHIER, Gene Lee HARRISON
  • Publication number: 20190215385
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sending packet replication over sets of bonded diverse packet paths with packet merge and deduplication at the bonded packet paths' egress thereby providing reduced packet loss, latency, and jitter while simultaneously providing high availability. Collectively these sets of bonded packet paths conveying replicated packets compose a virtual overlay network spanning diverse paths, and potentially diverse providers, and diverse network technologies. A control system continuously monitors the reachability and quality of synthetic or both synthetic traffic and bonded packet path traffic across all possible paths as input to the control system that dynamically while taking into account path cost manages the sets of bonded packet paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: nexVortex, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Anatoly Yakovlevich Rodionov, Jordan Steven Feldman
  • Publication number: 20190215188
    Abstract: Techniques for sending encrypted data includes establishing a plurality of different links between a first node and a different second node. The different links are different physical layer links or different virtual private network (VPN) links or some combination. The method also includes encrypting plaintext using a first value for an encryption parameter to produce ciphertext. Further, the method includes sending a first plurality of messages that indicate the ciphertext using at least one link of the plurality of different links. Still further, the method includes sending a different second plurality of messages that indicate the first value for the encryption parameter using at least one different link of the plurality of different links without introducing a random bit error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Anatoly Y. Rodionov, Jordan Steven Feldman
  • Patent number: 10305945
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Gene Lee Harrison
  • Publication number: 20160134666
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Randall Paul Joseph Ethier, Gene Lee Harrison
  • Patent number: 8938353
    Abstract: A method and system for intelligently managing a transportation network are provided. The method includes dynamically establishing an ad hoc data communications network that includes vehicle nodes provided by respective vehicles in a transportation network. Behavior of one or more of the vehicles can be controlled remotely in response to automated traffic analysis performed based on real-time information received via the ad hoc network. Remote control of the one or more vehicles can include controlling vehicle motion by controlling vehicle subsystems via real-time command data transmitted to the respective vehicles via the ad hoc network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Publication number: 20140095058
    Abstract: A method and system for intelligently managing a transportation network are provided. The method includes dynamically establishing an ad hoc data communications network that includes vehicle nodes provided by respective vehicles in a transportation network. Behavior of one or more of the vehicles can be controlled remotely in response to automated traffic analysis performed based on real-time information received via the ad hoc network. Remote control of the one or more vehicles can include controlling vehicle motion by controlling vehicle subsystems via real-time command data transmitted to the respective vehicles via the ad hoc network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Patent number: 8620491
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method includes providing a roadside apparatus to communicate with vehicle nodes associated with vehicles in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a range of control of the roadside apparatus. Based on real-time location and direction information received from a particular vehicle node associated with a particular one of the vehicles, a specific neighboring roadside apparatus whose range of control is next to be entered by the particular vehicle is identified. Handover information is communicated to the specific neighboring roadside apparatus, and the particular vehicle node is communicatively connected to the specific roadside apparatus before disconnection from the roadside apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Publication number: 20130253732
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method includes providing a roadside apparatus to communicate with vehicle nodes associated with vehicles in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a range of control of the roadside apparatus. Based on real-time location and direction information received from a particular vehicle node associated with a particular one of the vehicles, a specific neighboring roadside apparatus whose range of control is next to be entered by the particular vehicle is identified. Handover information is communicated to the specific neighboring roadside apparatus, and the particular vehicle node is communicatively connected to the specific roadside apparatus before disconnection from the roadside apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Patent number: 8311726
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus may dynamically detect the presence of a node 14A associated with a first vehicle 12A, and establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the roadside apparatus and the first vehicle's node. The roadside apparatus 18 receives, in real-time, from the first vehicle's node 14A event data of events associated with the first vehicle 12A over the mobile IP network. The roadside apparatus 18 or nodes 14A to 14D may further receive or transmit real-time command data to control subsystems of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Publication number: 20120016536
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus may dynamically detect the presence of a node 14A associated with a first vehicle 12A, and establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the roadside apparatus and the first vehicle's node. The roadside apparatus 18 receives, in real-time, from the first vehicle's node 14A event data of events associated with the first vehicle 12A over the mobile IP network. The roadside apparatus 18 or nodes 14A to 14D may further receive or transmit real-time command data to control subsystems of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Patent number: 8036782
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus may dynamically detect the presence of a node 14A associated with a first vehicle 12A, and establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the roadside apparatus and the first vehicle's node. The roadside apparatus 18 receives, in real-time, from the first vehicle's node 14A event data of events associated with the first vehicle 12A over the mobile IP network. The roadside apparatus 18 or nodes 14A to 14D may further receive or transmit real-time command data to control subsystems of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Publication number: 20110106337
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus may dynamically detect the presence of a node 14A associated with a first vehicle 12A, and establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the roadside apparatus and the first vehicle's node. The roadside apparatus 18 receives, in real-time, from the first vehicle's node 14A event data of events associated with the first vehicle 12A over the mobile IP network. The roadside apparatus 18 or nodes 14A to 14D may further receive or transmit real-time command data to control subsystems of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier
  • Patent number: 7813843
    Abstract: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus may dynamically detect the presence of a node 14A associated with a first vehicle 12A, and establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the roadside apparatus and the first vehicle's node. The roadside apparatus 18 receives, in real-time, from the first vehicle's node 14A event data of events associated with the first vehicle 12A over the mobile IP network. The roadside apparatus 18 or nodes 14A to 14D may further receive or transmit real-time command data to control subsystems of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc
    Inventors: Labhesh Patel, Sanjeev Kumar, Shmuel Shaffer, Mukul Jain, Randall Paul Joseph Ethier