Patents by Inventor Richard Wayne Buskens

Richard Wayne Buskens 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: 8483214
    Abstract: Information can be transported over domains operated by different service providers at required Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels without disclosing inter- and/or intra-domain information to ensure that the topology of a given service provider's domain (e.g., network) is not disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Sandra Ramos Thuel, Ramesh Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 8006228
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example comprises a first manager component that performs one or more first management operations on a software and/or hardware entity and a second manager component that performs one or more second management operations on the software and/or hardware entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Oscar J. Gonzalez, Tim Thengsen Liim, Sunil K. Mishra, Muhammad A. Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 7990881
    Abstract: Information can be transported over domains operated by different service providers at required Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels without disclosing inter- and/or intra-domain information to ensure that the topology of a given service provider's domain (e.g., network) is not disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Sandra Ramos Thuel, Ramesh Viswanathan
  • Publication number: 20110176458
    Abstract: Information can be transported over domains operated by different service providers at required Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels without disclosing inter- and/or intra-domain information to ensure that the topology of a given service provider's domain (e.g., network) is not disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Richard Wayne BUSKENS, Sandra Ramos THUEL, Ramesh VISWANATHAN
  • Patent number: 7707451
    Abstract: The time it takes to recover from a system initialization failure may be reduced by determining whether to enable a recovery process immediately, or defer such a process. Sometimes it is desirable to defer a recovery process until certain interdependencies between system components are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Oscar Gonzalez, Yansong Ren
  • Patent number: 7661094
    Abstract: Techniques for tracing the real-time operation of software for the purposes of testing, debugging, or performance analysis are disclosed. Diagnostic instrumentation for generating records containing details of software operation is incorporated in the software by inserting calls to diverse macros or inline functions. Each macro takes an argument specifying both a subsystem and a category of instrumentation within the subsystem. Based on the specified subsystem and category, the instrumentation can be included or excluded from the compiled object code and, if included, can be dynamically enabled at run-time. Disabled instrumentation does not result in a function call, but only a single, inline “if,” thereby reducing overhead. One macro accepts both software parameters and a custom format specifier describing how the parameters should be displayed. However, the parameters are not formatted during logging, nor is the format specifier included in the record. Instead, the formatting is performed when displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: John Harris Blevin, Richard Wayne Buskens, Douglas Streeter Daudelin
  • Patent number: 6298039
    Abstract: A method of delivering highly-reliable, fault-tolerant communications services in a telecommunications network of distributed call processing systems. The method advantageously identifies a set of objects within the telecommunications network requiring checkpointing; checkpoints the objects; and subsequently restores the checkpointed objects in the event of a failure. Various aspects of the method are disclosed, including restoration strategies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Thomas F. La Porta, Yow-Jian Lin, Kazutaka Murakami, Ramachandran Ramjee
  • Patent number: 6215782
    Abstract: A method for reconnecting calls affected by a loss of synchronization comprises detecting disconnect of a call and initiating a time-out sequence during which reconnection attempts are performed. The reconnection time-out sequence may be incremented a predetermined number of times before reconnection attempts are terminated and the call is released. Further, a mobile switching center and a serving base station may selectively determine whether reconnection attempts are to be made. Advantageously, resources associated with a call affected by a loss of synchronization are held for a predetermined time. If reconnection is successful, the held resources are bridged to new air traffic channels resulting in enhanced network efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Thomas F. La Porta, Arun Narayan Netravali, Krishan Kumar Sabnani
  • Patent number: 6192250
    Abstract: A “cluster mobile switching center” (cMSC) is arranged to perform the switching and control functions of a conventional mobile switching center (MSC), including, if desired, the additional functions of a conventional visitor location register (VLR). The cMSC is implemented on distributed processors using modular software. Advantageously, a specific instance of middleware, known as Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), is used as the communications middleware. Functionally, the cMSC is arranged to have two classes of servers: (1) Interworking managers (IMs) that act as gateways and provide interfaces to external network elements, and (2) core servers that perform call processing (registration, location updates, incoming and outgoing call processing) functions and communicate with each other using CORBA. IMs terminate standard protocols with the external elements and use CORBA to communicate with the core servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Michael P. Deitz, Thomas F. La Porta, Yow-Jian Lin, Kazutaka Murakami, Ramachandran Ramjee
  • Patent number: 5943334
    Abstract: An intelligent mobile terminal includes a reconnection processor for reestablishing calls affected by a loss of synchronization of signals between the mobile terminal and a serving base station. In the preferred embodiment, the serving base station establishes a reconnection channel for issuing messages relating to new air traffic channels. The reconnection processor causes a mobile terminal to tune to the reconnection channel in the event of loss of synchronization. Information received over the reconnection channel is used by the mobile terminal to reestablish calls affected by loss of synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Thomas F. La Porta, Arun Narayan Netravali, Krishan Kumar Sabnani
  • Patent number: 5905871
    Abstract: A multicasting method transmits data segments, including one or more data packets, over an established global multicast tree from a Sender S to a dynamically changing set of receivers, including at least one unknown Receiver R. In response to a data segment transmission, the Sender S receives a first status signal from the at least one unknown Receiver R (and/or any known Designated Receivers DRs) indicating the addition of and packet reception status of the unknown Receiver R (and/or any known Designated Receivers DRs) which has joined the multicast. In response to the status signals, the Sender S retransmits to the unknown Receiver R (and/or any known Designated Receivers DRs) those packets not received thereat. In this manner the unknown Receiver R (and/or any known Designated Receivers DRs) is added to the multicast session and retransmissions thereto are handled in the same manner as other receivers connected to the multicast session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Buskens, Sanjoy Paul, Muhammad Ali Siddiqui