Patents by Inventor William McConnochie

William McConnochie 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).

  • Mechanism and method for non-service affecting APS protection for MLPPP bundles on routing systems
    Patent number: 7843814
    Abstract: A method of non-service affecting APS protection for MLPPP bundles on routing systems, and associated mechanism, including one or more of the following: specifying a working MLPPP bundle and a protection MLPPP bundle; specifying MLPPP parameters; associating the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle with an APS circuit; bringing up an MLPPP session; changing an operational status of the working MLPPP bundle; synchronizing MLPPP state information between the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle; and driving an operational status of the protection MLPPP bundle based on said changing the operational status of the working MLPPP bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: William McConnochie, Andrew Dolganow, Vinod Prabhu
  • Mechanism for efficient endpoint discriminator allocation for APS protected MLPPP bundles on distributed routing systems
    Patent number: 7801023
    Abstract: A mechanism and method for efficient endpoint discriminator allocation for APS protected MLPPP bundles on distributed routing systems, including one or more of the following: specifying working and protection MLPPP bundles; retrieving an endpoint discriminator for the working bundle and updating an endpoint discriminator of the protection bundle based on same; specifying MLPPP operating parameters for the bundles; associating the bundles with an APS circuit; adding links and corresponding discriminators in an LCP between a near end bundle and a far end bundle; bringing up an MLPPP session; and adding links between bundles upon an APS switchover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: William McConnochie, Andrew Dolganow
  • Method of collecting consistent flow statistics through multiple congestion points within a multi-service switch/router and multi-service switches/routers provisioned with same
    Patent number: 7636357
    Abstract: A method of collecting consistent flow statistics through multiple congestion points within a multi-service switch/router is enabled by computing a payload length of each traffic unit received from a fabric of the switch/router. A PHY-level header containing the payload length, a class of service and a service ID is appended to the switch-internal encapsulated payload. Information associated with the PHY-level header is used at physical level congestion points to collect consistent flow statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Tim Kuhl, William McConnochie, Robert John Johnson, Andrew Dolganow
  • Mechanism for efficient endpoint discriminator allocation for APS protected MLPPP bundles on distributed routing systems
    Publication number: 20090080446
    Abstract: A mechanism and method for efficient endpoint discriminator allocation for APS protected MLPPP bundles on distributed routing systems, including one or more of the following: specifying working and protection MLPPP bundles; retrieving an endpoint discriminator for the working bundle and updating an endpoint discriminator of the protection bundle based on same; specifying MLPPP operating parameters for the bundles; associating the bundles with an APS circuit; adding links and corresponding discriminators in an LCP between a near end bundle and a far end bundle; bringing up an MLPPP session; and adding links between bundles upon an APS switchover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: William McConnochie, Andrew Dolganow
  • Mechanism and method for non-service affecting APS protection for MLPPP bundles on routing systems
    Publication number: 20090080327
    Abstract: A method of non-service affecting APS protection for MLPPP bundles on routing systems, and associated mechanism, including one or more of the following: specifying a working MLPPP bundle and a protection MLPPP bundle; specifying MLPPP parameters; associating the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle with an APS circuit; bringing up an MLPPP session; changing an operational status of the working MLPPP bundle; synchronizing MLPPP state information between the working MLPPP bundle and the protection MLPPP bundle; and driving an operational status of the protection MLPPP bundle based on said changing the operational status of the working MLPPP bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: William McConnochie, Andrew Dolganow, Vinod Prabhu
  • Method of collecting consistent flow statistics through multiple congestion points within a multi-service switch/router and multi-service switches/routers provisioned with same
    Publication number: 20070253338
    Abstract: A method of collecting consistent flow statistics through multiple congestion points within a multi-service switch/router is enabled by computing a payload length of each traffic unit received from a fabric of the switch/router. A PHY-level header containing the payload length, a class of service and a service ID is appended to the switch-internal encapsulated payload. Information associated with the PHY-level header is used at physical level congestion points to collect consistent flow statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Tim Kuhl, William McConnochie, Robert Johnson, Andrew Dolganow