Patents by Inventor Tracy Ma

Tracy Ma 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).

  • Ethernet to multilane optical transport network traffic interface
    Patent number: 8249080
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for transporting a serial stream via a lower speed network using multiple parallel paths. At a transmitter, an optical or electromagnetic waveform is accepted representing a serial stream of digital information, and unbundled into n virtual information streams. Each virtual information stream is divided into a sequence of segments. Each segment is encapsulated, creating a sequence of packets by adding a start indicator to the beginning of each segment, and a terminate indicator to the end of each segment. Each packet is disinterleaved across m lanes and reinterleaved into n branches of framed data. Optical or electromagnetic waveforms representing the framed data are transmitted via n network branches. A receiver is also provided, which essentially reverses the above-described transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
    Inventors: Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Matthew Ornes, Matthew Brown, Tracy Ma
  • Transport of multilane traffic over a multilane physical interface
    Patent number: 7869468
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for transporting a serial stream via a lower speed network using multiple parallel paths. At a transmitter, an optical or electromagnetic waveform is accepted representing a serial stream of digital information, and unbundled into n virtual information streams. Each virtual information stream is divided into a sequence of segments. Each segment is encapsulated, creating a sequence of packets by adding a start indicator to the beginning of each segment, and a terminate indicator to the end of each segment. Each packet is disinterleaved across m lanes and reinterleaved into n branches of framed data. Optical or electromagnetic waveforms representing the framed data are transmitted via n network branches. A receiver is also provided, which essentially reverses the above-described transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
    Inventors: Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, Matthew Ornes, Matthew Brown, Tracy Ma