Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Bressoud

Thomas C. Bressoud 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).

  • System and method for optimally configuring border gateway selection for transit traffic flows in a computer network
    Patent number: 7197040
    Abstract: A system for, and method of, configuring border gateway selection for transit traffic flows in a computer network. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a border gateway modeler that builds a model of cooperating border gateways, the model including capacities of the border gateways and (2) a traffic flow optimizer, associated with the border gateway modeler, that initially assigns traffic to the border gateways in accordance with a generalized assignment problem and subsequently reassigns the traffic to the border gateways based on cost until the capacities are respected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Bressoud, Rajeev Rastogi, Mark A. Smith
  • System and method for optimally configuring border gateway selection for transit transit traffic flows in a computer network
    Publication number: 20030142682
    Abstract: A system for, and method of, configuring border gateway selection for transit traffic flows in a computer network. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a border gateway modeler that builds a model of cooperating border gateways, the model including capacities of the border gateways and (2) a traffic flow optimizer, associated with the border gateway modeler, that initially assigns traffic to the border gateways in accordance with a generalized assignment problem and subsequently reassigns the traffic to the border gateways based on cost until the capacities are respected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Bressoud, Rajeev Rastogi, Mark A. Smith
  • Method, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-oriented protocols
    Publication number: 20010056492
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for maintaining a connection between a server and a client by receiving a message, determining whether to store one or more elements of the message, storing the one or more elements of the message when the one or more elements of the message are to be stored, transmitting the message, and determining whether the server has failed and when the server has failed, restoring the server to a pre-failure connection state using the one or more stored message elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas C. Bressoud, Lorenzo Alvisi, Ayman El-Khashab, Phoebe kay Weidmann
  • Transparent fault tolerant computer system
    Patent number: 5968185
    Abstract: In a fault-tolerant computer system, a primary replica supervisor is interposed between an operating system and a primary replica of an application program being executed by a primary processor. An object-code editor locates calls to the operating system and loops in the application program and inserts instruction sequences that enable the replica supervisor to intercept the calls to the operating system, results returned by the operating system as a result of the calls and asynchronous events delivered by the operating system to the replica. A backup replica supervisor is similarly interposed between an operating system and a backup replica of the application program being executed by a backup processor. The primary replica interacts with an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Stratus Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Bressoud, John E. Ahern, Kenneth P. Birman, Robert C. B. Cooper, Bradford B. Glade, Fred B. Schneider, John D. Service
  • Transparent fault tolerant computer system
    Patent number: 5802265
    Abstract: In a fault-tolerant computer system, a primary replica supervisor is interposed between an operating system and a primary replica of an application program being executed by a primary processor. An object-code editor locates calls to the operating system and loops in the application program and inserts instruction sequences that enable the replica supervisor to intercept the calls to the operating system, results returned by the operating system as a result of the calls and asynchronous events delivered by the operating system to the replica. A backup replica supervisor is similarly interposed between an operating system and a backup replica of the application program being executed by a backup processor. The primary replica interacts with an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Stratus Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Bressoud, John E. Ahern, Kenneth P. Birman, Robert C. B. Cooper, Bradford B. Glade, Fred B. Schneider, John D. Service