Patents by Inventor Steven L. Blake

Steven L. Blake 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).

  • Publication number: 20030123456
    Abstract: A method of filtering an incoming data packet stream in a data packet transmission system. The method comprises a step of defining a tree-like hierarchy for a plurality of filter conditions such that the filter conditions are divided into groups of filters, each of the groups associated with one or more fields having pre-determined condition values. The groups are arranged in long edges of the tree-like hierarchy. Next, a data packet stream is received at a point of ingress to the data packet transmission system and condition values along the edges of the tree-like hierarchy are compared to specified portions of the data packet stream to determine where there are matches. If matches are made along an entire edge of the tree-like hierarchy, the data packet stream is filtered according to the number of condition values compared as opposed to the number of filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Peter R. Denz, Vishnu Natchu, Steven L. Blake