Patents by Inventor Robert Wesley Brooks

Robert Wesley Brooks 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).

  • Flexible SONET access and transmission system
    Patent number: 6768745
    Abstract: A SONET network interface for interconnecting at least one high speed unit (HSU) with at least two low speed interface units (LSUs) to enable transmission of signals therebetween. The interface having: a common bus of predetermined bit width for interfacing the HSU unit with each of the LSU units to enable transmission of signals from each of the LSUs to the HSU, and reception of the signals from the HSU to each of the LSUs; a first partition bus of the predetermined bit width for interfacing the HSU to a predetermined number of the LSUs, the first partition bus being partitioned into a first bus for interfacing the HSU to a first subset of the LSUs and a second bus for interfacing the HSU to a second subset of the LSUs; and a second partition bus of the predetermined bit width for interfacing the HSU to a predetermined number of the LSU units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Zhone Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Scott Gorshe, Robert Wesley Brooks
  • Flexible SONET access and transmission systems
    Patent number: 6667973
    Abstract: A SONET network interface for interconnecting a high speed unit (HSU) with low speed interface units (LSUs) to enable transmission of signals therebetween. The interface including: a bus for interfacing the HSU with each of the LSU units to enable transmission of signals from each of LSUs to the HSU, and reception of the signals from the HSU to each of the LSUs; and a backplane connected to the bus and having at least two time slots for performing full time slot interchange between the at least two LSUs, wherein any of the at least two LSUs can read received data directly from one of the at least two time slots and can place its transmit data into any other of the at least two time slots for communication with another of the at least two LSUs without exchanging the received and/or transmit data with the at least one HSU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Zhone Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Scott Gorshe, Robert Wesley Brooks
  • Sonet system and method which performs TSI functions on the backplane and uses PCM buses partitioned into 4-bit wide parallel buses
    Patent number: 6580709
    Abstract: A SONET network interface for interconnecting a high speed unit (HSU) with low speed interface units (LSUs) is provided for enabling transmission of signals therebetween. The interface includes: a bus for interfacing the HSU with each of the LSUs to enable transmission of signals from each of the LSUs to the HSU, and reception of the signals from the HSU to each of the LSUs, wherein the HSU, LSUs, and the bus are contained in a primary shelf. The network interface also has secondary shelves, each containing secondary LSUs and an intershelf ring interconnection (IRI) bus connecting the primary shelf and each of the secondary shelves in series for exchanging data between the HSU of the primary shelf and each of the secondary shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: NEC America, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Scott Gorshe, Robert Wesley Brooks