Patents by Inventor Richard Thomas Emery

Richard Thomas Emery 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).

  • Propagation of a plurality of copies of an internet protocol packet
    Patent number: 7321551
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example comprises a router for one or more packets that comprise an Internet Protocol (“IP”) packet. The router comprises one or more packet replication components that employ the IP packet to propagate a plurality of copies of the IP packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Eugene Dombkowski, Richard Thomas Emery, Steven Mark Miller
  • Telecommunication network with layered switching fabric
    Publication number: 20040218590
    Abstract: A telecommunication system includes edge switches and a transmission system that interconnects the edge switches. The transmission system includes a plurality of layered transmission networks. Communication channels connect each edge switch to at least a first of the layered transmission networks. Further, a method provides traffic routing in a telecommunication system having ordered, layered transmission networks, the originating and terminating edge switches to carry a new requested traffic are identified. The highest order layered transmission network connecting the originating and terminating edge switches that is available to carry the traffic is determined. The determined highest order layered transmission network to carry the traffic is assigned to carry the traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Edward Alan Clark, Richard Thomas Emery, Joseph John Kott, Donald T. McBride