696 patents
Utility
Systems and methods for tracking and exporting flows in software with augmented processing in hardware
21 Mar 23
Systems and methods are provided herein for using a network device's software (e.g., programs executed on a CPU) to maintain and export flow data while offloading network resource intensive tasks to the network device's hardware.
Francois Labonte, Jeevan Kamisetty
Filed: 7 May 21
Utility
Goto Action In Network Traffic Policies
16 Mar 23
A traffic policy includes policy rules that specify branch actions in their action fields.
Denny Hung, Peter Delevoryas, Ramakrishna Paduvalli
Filed: 15 Sep 21
Utility
Method and System for Overlay Routing with Vxlan
16 Mar 23
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to routing packets between hosts or virtual machines in different layer 2 domains.
Kenneth James Duda, Adam James Sweeney
Filed: 21 Nov 22
Utility
High Frequency Rotation of Cryptographic Data
16 Mar 23
A centralized manager in a network deployment is configured to perform periodic automated rotation of secrets used in the network and customer devices in the deployment.
Ethan RAHN, Douglas GOURLAY, Kenneth DUDA, Ian O'BRIEN, Pranav CHOUDHARY, Rajat BAJAJ, Hua ZHONG
Filed: 8 Dec 21
Utility
Merging Chained Actions In Traffic Policies Having Branch Rules
16 Mar 23
A traffic policy includes policy rules that specify branch actions in their action fields.
Denny HUNG, Ethan R. VADAI, Muhammad YOUSUF, Ramakrishna PADUVALLI, Michael K. CHEN
Filed: 20 Jun 22
Utility
Methods and Systems for Resource Optimization
16 Mar 23
A method for optimizing network device resources that includes receiving, by an optimizer, first resource utilization data, making a first determination, based on the first resource utilization data, that resource utilization exceeds an upper threshold, starting, based on the first determination, an optimization process, that includes identifying a resource optimization entry of a resource class optimization queue, and initiating optimization of a resource fragment specified by the resource optimization entry.
Binglai Niu, Mayukh Saubhasik
Filed: 21 Nov 22
Design
Electrical housing
14 Mar 23
Rui Jia, Robert Morris Wilcox, Richard Neville Hibbs, Christopher H. Frank
Filed: 23 Dec 20
Utility
Method and System for Propagating Network Traffic Flows Between End Points Based on Service and Priority Policies
9 Mar 23
A method and system for propagating network traffic flows between end points based on service and priority policies.
Anuraag Mittal, Arup Raton Roy, Thejesh Panchappa, Nitin Karkhanis
Filed: 31 Aug 22
Utility
Transporting light within circuit board profile
7 Mar 23
Embodiments described herein relate to a system for positioning indicator lights of a network device.
Matthew Albert Moe, Robert Morris Wilcox, Richard Neville Hibbs, Tiong Khai Soo, Xing Wang, James Dennis MacDonald, Clifford Bryant Willis
Filed: 31 Aug 21
Utility
Efficient algorithm to eliminate redundant specific prefixes in forwarding information base using trie
7 Mar 23
A network element and method for programming a network element that includes detecting an update to a first route in a routing information base (RIB) is disclosed.
Kumaran Narayanan, Sudip Regmi, Prashant Srinivas, Venkitraman Kasiviswanathan
Filed: 8 Dec 20
Utility
Network device with compact chassis
7 Mar 23
In some implementations, a network device includes a housing and a set of switch cards within the housing and including a first set of connectors.
Alex Rose, Daniel Kim, Robert Wilcox, Richard Hibbs
Filed: 23 Mar 21
Utility
Recording Packet Loss In a Network
2 Mar 23
Packets in a network may be dropped from time to time.
Douglas Alan Gourlay, Udayakumar Srinivasan, Fred Hsu
Filed: 1 Feb 22
Utility
Bootstrapping and Troubleshooting of Remote Devices
2 Mar 23
A method for remotely configuring a network device using a user device and a network management service is provided.
Ethan Barnett Rahn, Udayakumar Srinivasan, Aparna Sushrut Karanjkar, Douglas Alan Gourlay, Kim Ringeisen
Filed: 25 Jan 22
Utility
Network Traffic Engineering with Multi-virtual Routing and Forwarding Lookup
2 Mar 23
A method for network traffic forwarding using multi-virtual routing and forwarding instances forwarding lookups is provided.
Sriram Sellappa, Anil Joshi
Filed: 31 Aug 21
Utility
Transporting Light Within Circuit Board Profile
2 Mar 23
Embodiments described herein relate to a system for positioning indicator lights of a network device.
Matthew Albert Moe, Robert Morris Wilcox, Richard Neville Hibbs, Tiong Khai Soo, Xing Wang, James Dennis MacDonald, Clifford Bryant Willis
Filed: 31 Aug 21
Utility
Damper System for a Lidless Integrated Circuit
2 Mar 23
A processing unit.
Robert Morris Wilcox, Tiffany Doria, Steven Alf Hanssen
Filed: 31 Aug 21
Utility
Scalable Network Processing Segmentation
2 Mar 23
A method for processing network communications, the method including receiving a network packet at a network device and performing at least one lookup for the packet in one or more first lookup tables in which the one or more first lookup tables are programmed to include at least one of an exact match or longest prefix match (LPM) table entry.
Adam James Sweeney
Filed: 8 Nov 22
Utility
Fragment Modification of Routing Control Functions
2 Mar 23
A network device that provides packet forwarding services includes: a command line interface and a route manager.
Sharad Birmiwal, Matthieu Loriol, Keon Vafai
Filed: 10 Aug 21
Utility
Optical communication interface
28 Feb 23
Embodiments of the present disclosure include optical transmitters and transceivers with improved reliability.
Alexey Kovsh, David Towne, Peter Parkinson, Andreas Bechtolsheim
Filed: 24 Jul 20
Utility
Networking system having multiple components with multiple loci of control
21 Feb 23
Each switch unit in a networking system shares its local state information among other switch units in the networking system, collectively referred to as the shared forwarding state.
Francois Labonte, Kartik Chandran, Eswaran Baskaran, Hugh Weber Holbrook
Filed: 20 Jan 22