Title: Overture Network's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-pwe3-tdm-requirements-01
Received: October 21, 2003
From: Prayson Pate <[email protected]>

Please find attached an IPR statement relating to section 7.6
of draft-ietf-pwe3-tdm-requirements-01.txt.

     I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

     Legal Name: Overture Networks Inc.

     II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

     Name: Len Hayes

     Title: Vice Presidents

     Department: Operations

     Address: 507 Airport Blvd, Suite 111
                             Morrisville, NC 27560 USA

     Telephone: +1-919-337-4123

     Fax: +1-919-337-4149

     Email: [email protected]

     III. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal
     Belief Triggered the Disclosure in this Template (Optional):

     Name: Prayson Pate

     Title: Vice President

     Department: Engineering

     Address: 507 Airport Blvd, Suite 111
                             Morrisville, NC 27560 USA

     Telephone: +1-919-337-4102

     Fax: +1-919-337-4149

     Email: [email protected]

     IV. IETF Document or Contribution to Which Patent Disclosure Relates


     Title: "Requirements for Edge-to-Edge Emulation of TDM Circuits
                     over Packet Switching Networks (PSN)"


     RFC Number or I-D Tag: draft-ietf-pwe3-tdm-requirements-01.txt


     Other Designations:


     V. Disclosure of Patent Information (i.e., patents or patent
     applications required to be disclosed by Section 6 of RFC XXXX)

     A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications,
     please provide the following information:

     Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File
     number(s):

           US Publication 2003/0086372:
           "Automatic Adjustment of Buffer Depth for the correction of
           Packet Delay Variation"


     Date(s) granted or applied for (dd/mm/yy):

     - provisional filed: 07/11/2001
     - patent filed: 05/08/2002
     - application published: 05/08/2003


     B. Does your disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent
     application?

     Select one: Yes ______ No __X____

     C. If an Internet-Draft or RFC includes multiple parts and it is not
     reasonably apparent which part of such Internet-Draft or RFC is
     alleged to be covered by the patent information disclosed in Section
     V(A) or V(B), it is helpful if the discloser identifies here the
     sections of the Internet-Draft or RFC that are alleged to be so
     covered.

     Related to dynamic sizing of a jitter buffer as described in section
     7.6 of the above cited draft document.


     VI. Licensing Declaration

     The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing
     any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s)
     disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation
     of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification
     ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such
     specification, is as follows (select one licensing declaration option
     only):

     a) ___ No License Required for Implementers
                           Check here if commitment to forgo a license is limited
                           solely to standards-track RFCs ___

     b) ___ Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to
                       All Implementers
                           Check here if this commitment to license is limited solely
                           to standards-track RFCs ___

     c) _X_ Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to All
                       Implementers with Possible Royalty/Fee
                           Check here if this commitment to license is limited solely
                           to standards-track RFCs _X__

     d) ___ Licensing Declaration to be Provided Later (implies a
                       willingness to commit to the provisions of a), b), or c)
                       above; otherwise, the next option - "Unwilling to Commit to
                       the Provisions of a), b), or c) Above" - must be selected)

     e) ___ Unwilling to Commit to the Provisions of a), b), or c)
                       Above

     NOTE: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants
     that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the
     above-selected licensing declaration.

     VII. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form (if different from
     IETF Participant in Section III above)

     Name:

     Title:

     Department:

     Address:


     Telephone:

     Fax:

     Email:

     VIII. Other Notes:

     Where there is a necessary dependence upon such patents and patent
     applications in implementing an IETF adopted standard resulting from
     this document, Overture Networks will license on fair, reasonable, and
     non-discriminatory terms to all parties, any patent claims it owns
     covering such technology, solely to the extent such technology is
     essential to comply with such standard. Any such license to a party
     shall start on the date that Overture Networks and the party enter into
     an agreement related thereto and shall be granted on the condition that
     any such party grants to Overture Networks and its corporate affiliates a
     reciprocal license under such party's patents for which there is also a
     necessary dependence.

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