Patents by Inventor Ahmet Tuncay

Ahmet Tuncay 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for separate control and data planes in a wireless network
    Patent number: 8804732
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a wireless access point controller configured to receive information associated with a topology of a network including information associated with which access switch from a set of access switches each virtual local area network (VLAN) from a set of VLANs is associated. The wireless access point controller is configured to associate each VLAN from the set of VLANs with a unique tunnel identifier from a set of tunnel identifiers. The wireless access point controller is configured to provide each wireless access point from a set of wireless access points control information including the set of tunnel identifiers such that a wireless access point from the set of wireless access points can send a data packet received from a wireless device to an access switch from the set of access switches associated with a destination VLAN from the set of VLANs using the tunnel identifier associated with the destination VLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Trapeze Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Tash Hepting, James Reeves, Alireza Safari, Ahmet Tuncay