Patents by Inventor Steve Allen Bade

Steve Allen Bade 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 point-to-point protocol framework
    Patent number: 5894557
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to minimize the efforts required to integrate a new communication media and network service into an operating system. These and other objects are accomplished by implementing the link control protocol layer as an operating system service multiplexing a set of network protocol connections to a set of communication media connections routing messages between respective connections. The LCP function is isolated by a set of network interfaces and a set of communication media interfaces. The invention allows the NCP and datagram support to be independent of the LCP support so long as the NCP and datagram implementations conform to the interfaces provided by the LCP operating system service that allow exchanges of state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Allen Bade, Kyusun Chang