Patents by Inventor Tom Cloonan

Tom Cloonan 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).

  • Patent number: 9338024
    Abstract: A device, deployed at the edge of a provider network, includes logic to receive traffic from one or more customer edge devices, and to encapsulate the customer traffic into a Layer 2 tunnel of an IP frame. The IP frame in further included within an Ethernet frame, and quality of service priority bits are promoted from the customer traffic into both the IP frame and the Ethernet frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Emmendorfer, Tom Cloonan, Erich Arnold
  • Patent number: 8136141
    Abstract: A method performed by a central network device, such as a network edge device, or a CMTS, determines whether some of a plurality of user devices coupled to a communication device are transmitting at substantially their respective maximum power output level over a given channel. If the central device determines that some of the devices are operating at near their maximum output level (“power pegged,) the central device searches for another channel that can carry the traffic of the power pegged devices at reduced data rate. If another channel can accommodate transmission of signals of the power pegged device, the central device instructs the power pegged devices to tune to the new channel at a reduced data rate compared to the data rate of the current channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: ARRIS Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Tom Cloonan
  • Patent number: 7953144
    Abstract: A method halts transmission and/or reception of a desired signal on a channel in a communication network and samples an analog metric versus time on the channel at a predetermined sample rate. Successively sampled sets of data are stored first to a one dimensional array, each of which set is then stored to a two-dimensional array. The two dimensional array is analyzed in the time domain to determine the presence of impulse noise. Analog parameters represented by values contained in the samples can be analyzed to determine where, with respect to time, impulse noise occurs, and what is the amplitude of the impulse noise as well as AWGN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: ARRIS Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Allen, Tom Cloonan
  • Publication number: 20090113503
    Abstract: A method performed by a central network device, such as a network edge device, or a CMTS, determines whether some of a plurality of user devices coupled to a communication device are transmitting at substantially their respective maximum power output level over a given channel. If the central device determines that some of the devices are operating at near their maximum output level (“power pegged,) the central device searches for another channel that can carry the traffic of the power pegged devices at reduced data rate. If another channel can accommodate transmission of signals of the power pegged device, the central device instructs the power pegged devices to tune to the new channel at a reduced data rate compared to the data rate of the current channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Tom Cloonan
  • Publication number: 20090034509
    Abstract: An active multiplexer contains a switching mechanism that connects one of a plurality of upstream links from corresponding nodes in a communication network to an upstream output based on information contained in a MAP. The MAP contains scheduling information of the next user stations, which are coupled to the nodes, and which are scheduled to transmit in the upstream direction during a period following the current time. Station identifiers are associated with their corresponding node identifier during a ranging burst interval into a station/node table, which is used in conjunction with the MAP to control the active multiplexer. Based on the MAP, the active multiplexer connects the node, as determined from the station/node table, that serves the station that is scheduled to transmit upstream traffic and disconnects other nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Krapp, Tom Cloonan, Todd Kessler
  • Patent number: 7480241
    Abstract: CMTS software keeps track of the number of call requests accepted during a given monitoring period, this number being referred to as Count. As each call request is received, Count is compared to the current value stored in an overload state MIB (which can change multiple times during a monitoring period based on the actual overload state as reported by fault management). If Count exceeds the MIB value, the call request is denied. After the monitoring period ends, the Count of call requests accepted is reset to zero and the count value begins incrementing at the start of the next monitoring period as calls are accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Arris International, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Hanks, Tom Cloonan, Brian Barker
  • Publication number: 20080285592
    Abstract: A device, deployed at the edge of a provider network, includes logic to receive traffic from one or more customer edge devices, and to encapsulate the customer traffic into a Layer 2 tunnel of an IP frame. The IP frame in further included within an Ethernet frame, and quality of service priority bits are promoted from the customer traffic into both the IP frame and the Ethernet frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: ARRIS
    Inventors: Michael Emmendorfer, Tom Cloonan, Erich Arnold
  • Publication number: 20080075157
    Abstract: A method halts transmission and/or reception of a desired signal on a channel in a communication network and samples an analog metric versus time on the channel at a predetermined sample rate. Successively sampled sets of data are stored first to a one dimensional array, each of which set is then stored to a two-dimensional array. The two dimensional array is analyzed in the time domain to determine the presence of impulse noise. Analog parameters represented by values contained in the samples can be analyzed to determine where, with respect to time, impulse noise occurs, and what is the amplitude of the impulse noise as well as AWGN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Jim Allen, Tom Cloonan
  • Publication number: 20050052993
    Abstract: CMTS software keeps track of the number of call requests accepted during a given monitoring period, this number being referred to as Count. As each call request is received, Count is compared to the current value stored in an overload state MIB (which can change multiple times during a monitoring period based on the actual overload state as reported by fault management). If Count exceeds the MIB value, the call request is denied. After the monitoring period ends, the Count of call requests accepted is reset to zero and the count value begins incrementing at the start of the next monitoring period as calls are accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: William Hanks, Tom Cloonan, Brian Barker