Patents by Inventor Wynona Persephone Jacobs

Wynona Persephone Jacobs 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).

  • Counting of GVRP protocol data units within a network bridge
    Patent number: 7594028
    Abstract: Counters are implemented within an 802.1Q VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) bridge model to assist a network administrator in diagnosing network problems associated with the dynamic registration of VLANs. Such counters are able to count the number of dynamic VLANs propagated through a bridging device, and for monitoring the maximum number of VLANs ever simultaneously configured on a bridge device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wynona Persephone Jacobs, Steven Edward Ledford, Alejandro Emilio Vasquez, Colin Michael Winegarden
  • Statistics for VLAN bridging devices
    Patent number: 6658012
    Abstract: Counters are implemented within a bridge device so that adequate forwarding and transmission statistics can be monitored. The counting of frame discards as a result of ingress and egress rules implemented within the bridge are utilized within the IEEE 802.IQ VLAN bridge model to calculate the number of frames forwarded and the number of frames transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Calvin Baucom, Jr., Wynona Persephone Jacobs, Colin Michael Winegarden