Patents by Inventor Steven R. Ringwald

Steven R. Ringwald 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).

  • Software methods of an optical networking apparatus with integrated modules having multi-protocol processors and physical layer components
    Patent number: 7907607
    Abstract: A unified API is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate uniform access, control or interaction with its multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM) by its applications. Each of the MPONM has a multi-protocol processor with a number of function blocks and physical layer components. Corresponding service routines are provided for the function blocks and the physical layer. Functions of the function block/physical layer service routines are externalized through the same unified API, thereby enabling accesses and interactions with physical layer components of a MPONM to be conducted in the same high level manner as accesses and interactions with function blocks of the multi-protocol processor of the MPONM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Null Networks LLC
    Inventors: Robert C. Garcelon, Alfred C. She, Steven R. Ringwald
  • Software methods of an optical networking apparatus with integrated modules having multi-protocol processors and physical layer components
    Publication number: 20040024858
    Abstract: A unified API is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate uniform access, control or interaction with its multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM) by its applications. Each of the MPONM has a multi-protocol processor with a number of function blocks and physical layer components. Corresponding service routines are provided for the function blocks and the physical layer. Functions of the function block/physical layer service routines are externalized through the same unified API, thereby enabling accesses and interactions with physical layer components of a MPONM to be conducted in the same high level manner as accesses and interactions with function blocks of the multi-protocol processor of the MPONM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Robert C. Garcelon, Alfred C. She, Steven R. Ringwald