Patents by Inventor Thomas Charles Bressoud

Thomas Charles 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).

  • Method, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-oriented protocols
    Patent number: 7673038
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Lorenzo Alvisi, Thomas Charles Bressoud, Ayman M. El-Khashab, Phoebe Kay Weidmann
  • Method, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-oriented protocols
    Patent number: 7213063
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignees: Lucent Technologies Inc., University of Texas at Austin
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Bressoud, Lorenzo Alvisi, Ayman M. El-Khashab, Phoebe Kay Weidmann