Patents by Inventor Tim Reinhard

Tim Reinhard 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).

  • N+1 protection using a processor-based protection device
    Patent number: 8059526
    Abstract: In an N+1 protection scheme for a router in a data or telecommunications network, a processor-based protection unit has a replica device handle, corresponding to each of the N working units, stored in the protection unit's local memory. Each replica device handle is an image of the connections provided by the corresponding working unit. In one implementation, upon detection of a failure of one of the working units, the router's controller unit sends a single command to instruct the protection unit to reconfigure itself using the corresponding locally stored replica device handle to assume the routing functions of the failed working unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Vijayalakshmi Kanthamneni, Ravi Krishnaswamy, Ning Li, Donna M. Nemshick, Tim Reinhard, Steven Rothweiler, Robert L. Smigielski, Martin Trew, Swaminathan Venkatakrishnaprasad, Wen N. Wang, Jay P. Wilshire
  • N+1 Protection Using a Processor-Based Protection Device
    Publication number: 20100238794
    Abstract: In an N+1 protection scheme for a router in a data or telecommunications network, a processor-based protection unit has a replica device handle, corresponding to each of the N working units, stored in the protection unit's local memory. Each replica device handle is an image of the connections provided by the corresponding working unit. In one implementation, upon detection of a failure of one of the working units, the router's controller unit sends a single command to instruct the protection unit to reconfigure itself using the corresponding locally stored replica device handle to assume the routing functions of the failed working unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: LSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijayalakshmi Kanthamneni, Ravi Krishnaswamy, Ning Li, Donna M. Nemshick, Tim Reinhard, Steven Rothweiler, Robert L. Smigielski, Martin Trew, Swaminathan Venkatakrishnaprasad, Wen Wang, Jay P. Wilshire