Clifford R Martin

US Patent:

6643658, Nov 4, 2003

Filed:

Jan 19, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/487516

Inventors:

Ben Jai - River Edge NJ
Clifford E Martin - Martinsville NJ
Abraham Silberschatz - Warren NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

707100, 707 1, 707 5, 707 10, 707501, 709203

Abstract:

A network server stores database tables for use in resolving labels into network addresses as requested by a remote browser client. Each user has an associated address-table which stores user defined labels associated with network addresses. Users may access other users address-tables if such other users grant authority to do so. Each user defines the address-tables to be searched, along with a search order, to be used when the user requests that a label be resolved into a network address. During address resolution, the server will resolve a received label into the network address associated with the label as defined by the first accessed address-table which contains the label. The search order as defined by the user may be overridden for a particular address resolution request by an appropriate user command. In various embodiment, the network addresses may be WWW addresses and electronic mail addresses.

US Patent:

6697338, Feb 24, 2004

Filed:

Oct 28, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/428419

Inventors:

Yuri Breitbart - Madison NJ
Minos N. Garofalakis - Chatham NJ
Clifford Eric Martin - Martinsville NJ
Rajeev Rastogi - New Providence NJ
Srinivasan Seshadri - Basking Ridge NJ
Abraham Silberschatz - Warren NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04L 1228

US Classification:

370254

Abstract:

Physical connectivity is determined between elements such as switches and routers in a multiple subnet communication network. Each element has one or more interfaces each of which is physically linked with an interface of another network element. Address sets are generated for each interface of the network elements, wherein members of a given address set correspond to network elements that can be reached from the corresponding interface for which the given address set was generated. The members of first address sets generated for corresponding interfaces of a given network element, are compared with the members of second address sets generated for corresponding interfaces of network elements other than the given element. A set of candidate connections between an interface of the given network element and one or more interfaces of other network elements, are determined. If more than one candidate connection is determined, connections with network elements that are in the same subnet as the given network element are eliminated from the set.

US Patent:

6721314, Apr 13, 2004

Filed:

May 20, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/316118

Inventors:

Stephen Michael Blott - Gillette NJ
Yuri Breitbart - Madison NJ
Clifford Eric Martin - Martinsville NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04L 1228

US Classification:

370389, 455406, 37911408

Abstract:

Duplicate processing at network operators is avoided by applying once-only processing at operators which are adjacent to either the source or destination host of a data packet. An operator is adjacent to a host if there exists a path between the operator and the host containing no other operators. In one embodiment, an operator determines that it is adjacent to a host if it receives a special broadcast data packet from the host. To ensure that no other operators receive the special broadcast data packet, the adjacent operator drops the packet. In another embodiment, operators determine whether they are adjacent to identified hosts by transmitting special ping packets to the hosts. If an operator receives a ping response from the host, the operator determines that it is adjacent to the host. To ensure that only adjacent operators receive ping responses, intervening operators drop special ping packets received from other operators.

US Patent:

7170393, Jan 30, 2007

Filed:

Mar 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/812598

Inventors:

Clifford E Martin - Martinsville NJ, US

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies, Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04Q 5/22
G06F 19/00
G06K 7/00

US Classification:

340 101, 700115, 235440

Abstract:

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and an antenna grid are used for automatic determination of cable connections. An RF antenna grid is advantageously employed on a device having a plurality of device ports (e. g. , cable connection points) which may, for example, be physically organized in a two-dimensional arrangement. Then, when RFID tags are fixed to one or more cable ends, it can advantageously be determined which of the one or more cables are connected to which of the ports on the device. The RF antenna grid may comprise a plurality of individual antennas which are advantageously multiplexed such that a single RFID reader can handle the sensing for all antennas. Also, opposing ends of a given cable may be advantageously provided with RFID tags having related ID codes such that connections which exist between two connected ports of the device may be easily and efficiently determined.

US Patent:

7219157, May 15, 2007

Filed:

Mar 23, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/815942

Inventors:

Stephen M. Blott - Gillette NJ, US
Clifford E. Martin - Martinsville NJ, US

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709238, 709244, 719314, 719328

Abstract:

An application programming interface (API) is described that allows creating or destroying one or more pairs of data structures for asynchronously passing between the operating system and a network application pointers to packet buffers mapped to both parties.

US Patent:

7436310, Oct 14, 2008

Filed:

Mar 29, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/392296

Inventors:

Michael E Flaster - Tenafly NJ, US
Clifford E Martin - Martinsville NJ, US
Wee Teck Ng - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Cuong Tran - Howell NJ, US

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G08B 13/14

US Classification:

3405728, 3406861, 3405721, 340687, 439488

Abstract:

An RF antenna grid design in which the antenna array is installed on a patch panel cover allows for the retrofitting of an RF antenna grid on existing patch panel based systems without disrupting network operation. An apparatus for determining connectivity between device ports on a patch panel and cable ends having corresponding RFID tags attached thereto comprises a patch panel having a plurality of device ports and a patch panel cover comprising a plurality of RFID antennas, where each of the RFID antennas comprises one or more protruding portions thereof, each of the protruding portions of the RFID antennas being in close physical proximity to one or more of the plurality of device ports when the patch panel cover is positioned in a fixed positional relationship to the patch panel (e. g. , when the patch panel cover is “attached” to the patch panel).

US Patent:

7734761, Jun 8, 2010

Filed:

Feb 20, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/370805

Inventors:

Ben Jai - Scotch Plains NJ, US
Clifford E. Martin - Martinsville NJ, US

Assignee:

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709224, 709238

Abstract:

A system for, and method of, retrieving network management data in a network and a network management station incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an information querier, associated with a network management station, that develops a query for at least some network management data from a target agent in the network and assigns a path for a response from the target agent that is unique to the target agent and (2) a response receiver, associated with the information querier, that receives, via the path, the response from the target agent containing the at least some the network management data.

US Patent:

8374958, Feb 12, 2013

Filed:

Aug 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/230444

Inventors:

Stephen Michael Blott - Gillette NJ, US
Henry F Korth - Lower Gwynedd PA, US
Clifford E Martin - Martinsville NJ, US

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent - Paris

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 40, 382100

Abstract:

A payment system for accessing Internet content is located within an Internet service providers network. The system includes an access controller () and a payment authority (). When an end-user makes a request for a URL, the access controller terminates the request and determines whether the requested URL is one for which a charge for accessing the content referenced by that URL is required. That determination is made by comparing the requested URL with a set of rules that are supplied by all the content providers for which the service provider supports payment. If no match is found, the request is forwarded to the content provider. If a rule is found that matches the requested URL, the end-user is identified and the request is forwarded to the payment authority where a payment policy associated with the matched rule is applied. If the end-user fulfills the requirements of this payment policy, then access to the content is granted. The end-user may fulfill the requirements of the payment policy, for example, through a current subscription to a content provider's site, through an auto-payment agreement in which all charges of less than an agreed upon amount are automatically accepted, or by specifically accepting and agreeing to pay an indicated charge for accessing the requested content.