430 patents
Utility
Interlocking Border Gateway Protocol and Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group Processes for Network Devices
18 Jan 24
Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for interlocking border gateway protocol and multi-chassis link aggregation group processes for network devices.
Neha Goyal
Filed: 14 Jul 22
Utility
Systems and Methods for Processing Heartbeat Packets In Switching Hardware
18 Jan 24
Systems and methods for increasing the speed with which a network device can process “heartbeat” packets that are transmitted between the network device and its peers to verify that the communication links between them are active, or to detect when the communication links go down (i.e., are inactive).
Michael Chih-Yen Wang, Victor Shih-Hua Wen, Navdeep Bhatia
Filed: 12 Jul 22
Utility
Spanning Tree Learning In a Network Device
11 Jan 24
Starting a spanning tree protocol (STP) process in a network device excludes performing a root bridge election sequence.
Apeksha JAIN, Victor WEN, Daniel Robert GUERIN
Filed: 6 Jul 22
Utility
Per-host Access Lists
11 Jan 24
Methods and network devices for applying access-control lists (ACL) to hosts are disclosed.
. Aman-Ul-Haq, Ajay Chhatwal, John William French, Wei Chen, John William Flick
Filed: 7 Jul 22
Utility
Route Control Techniques
28 Dec 23
Embodiments described herein relate to techniques for route control.
Trevor D. Mendez, Thanh Lam Thai, Sharad Birmiwal
Filed: 8 Sep 23
Utility
Supporting Different Security Schemes with Different Boot Personalities for Network Devices
21 Dec 23
Devices and methods for managing boot personalities in a network device are disclosed.
Fakherdin Kalla, Edward K. Chien
Filed: 17 Jun 22
Utility
Multicast Flow Restoration Following Network Failure Detection
21 Dec 23
A method and system for multicast flow restoration following network failure detection.
Frederic Laine, Nader Lahouti, Ryan Andrew Morris, Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, Sudip Regmi
Filed: 21 Jun 22
Utility
Centralized Network Multicast State Publication
21 Dec 23
A method and system for centralized network multicast state publication.
Nader Lahouti, Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, Sudip Regmi
Filed: 21 Jun 22
Utility
Deterministic Network Bandwidth Aware Multicast Flow Provisioning
21 Dec 23
A method and system for deterministic network bandwidth aware multicast flow provisioning.
Nader Lahouti, Ryan Andrew Morris, Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, Sudip Regmi
Filed: 21 Jun 22
Utility
Using Synthetic Packets to Validate Forwarding and Control Implementation on Network Systems
21 Dec 23
A method for managing a network includes obtaining network flow data corresponding to a network device in the network, determining, based on the network flow data, configuration coverage associated with forwarding control configuration of the network device, identifying, using the configuration coverage and the forwarding control configuration, non-coverage, generating a plurality of synthetic packets based on the non-coverage, transmitting the plurality of synthetic packets to the network device, obtaining a set of results associated with the plurality of synthetic packets, making a determination, based on the set of results, that the network device is not implementing at least a portion of the non-coverage correctly, and based on the determination, performing a remediation action on the network device.
Douglas Alan Gourlay, Kenneth James Duda, Fred Lo-Tze Hsu
Filed: 24 May 22
Utility
Captive Portal Redirection by Devices with No Internet Protocol Connectivity In the Host Virtual Local Area Network
21 Dec 23
In general, the disclosure relates to a method for redirecting a user to a captive portal.
Leandro Lisboa Penz, Arun Ajith Surendranath, Ganesan Rajagopal, Manish Singhvi
Filed: 15 Jun 23
Utility
Wireless Intrusion Prevention
21 Dec 23
A networking system may disrupt an unauthorized wireless connection to the network.
Jatin Parekh, Anubhav Gupta, Amogh Dasture, Nadeem Akhtar
Filed: 8 Jun 22
Utility
Stateful Media Access Control Security Switchover Support
14 Dec 23
A method for managing a group of secured network devices.
Sourav Basu, Tarun Jain, Kaustav Majumdar, Manish Singhvi
Filed: 8 Jun 22
Utility
Increasing Multi-path Size Using Hierarchical Forwarding Equivalent Classes
7 Dec 23
Techniques for operating a network device for increasing the logical multi-path size of a hardware forwarding table are provided.
Trevor Siemens, Mayukh Saubhasik, Vahab Akbarzadeh
Filed: 21 Aug 23
Utility
Pluggable Module and Cage for Improving Airflow In Network Switch System
7 Dec 23
A switch system including a plurality of pluggable modules, a plurality of cages housing the plurality of pluggable modules, and a host printed circuit board (PCB).
Youngbae Park, Jose Manuel Ochoa Castellanos, Ernest Mason Thurlow
Filed: 5 Aug 22
Utility
Shared Memory Allocator with Child Process
7 Dec 23
A method and apparatus of a network device that allocates a shared memory buffer for an object is described.
Stuart Ritchie, Sebastian Sapa, Christopher Neilson, Eric Secules, Peter Edwards
Filed: 22 Aug 23
Utility
Managing Subscriptions to Data Queries That React and Update to Change Notifications
30 Nov 23
A method for managing streams includes obtaining, by a state processing module in a coordination point, a notification for a standing query, and in response to the notification: identifying a storage location in the coordination point associated with a stream of the standing query, initiating a subscription to the standing query using the storage location, reserving a data buffer for the standing query, replicating, based on the standing query, data of the data stream using the storage location, updating the data buffer using the replicated data or a reference to the replicated data to obtain an updated data buffer, and servicing the standing query using the updated data buffer.
Pierre-Alexandre Rene Veyry, Aran Sean Liam Nolan, Vlad Serban Hanciuta
Filed: 31 May 22
Utility
Optimized Programming of Forwarding Data In Network Device Hardware
30 Nov 23
Some embodiments provide techniques for optimized programming of forwarding data in network device hardware.
Sriram Sellappa, Mayukh Saubhasik, Imtiyaz Mohammad
Filed: 11 May 23
Utility
End-to-end Path Detection and Management for Inter-branch Communication In a Wide Area Network (Wan)
30 Nov 23
A method of managing inter-branch communication is a network, including generating an end-to-end path, wherein the end-to-end path starts in a first computing device in a first branch and ends at a second computing device in a second branch, wherein the end-to-end path is generated using a plurality of flow records and a plurality of path records and the end-to-end path includes a wide area network (WAN) segment, and issuing, based on the generating, a notification to a network administrator, wherein the notification specifies the end-to-end path and a latency associated with at least one segment in the end-to-end path.
Sandip K. Shah
Filed: 4 Aug 23
Utility
Resource Utilization In Resource Reservation Protocol Split Tunnels with Adaptive Sub-tunneling
30 Nov 23
Management of a plurality of sub-tunnels is disclosed herein.
Damien FLEURISSON, Kalash NAINWAL, Martin STIGGE, Max XIAO
Filed: 24 May 22