Patents by Inventor Alan Thorton Gous

Alan Thorton Gous 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).

  • Soft constrained shortest-path tunneling
    Patent number: 10476772
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a request to route traffic from a source to a destination in a network, where the request is associated with a setup bandwidth criterion. The method includes: identifying a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and, for each of the plurality of candidate tunnel paths, determining whether or not at least one of the candidate tunnel paths satisfies the setup bandwidth criterion. In response to determining that the plurality of candidate tunnel paths fail to satisfy the setup bandwidth criterion, the method includes: determining a congestion metric for each of a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and instantiating a tunnel from the source to the destination according to a candidate tunnel path with the lowest congestion metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Thorton Gous, Eleni Palopoulou
  • SOFT CONSTRAINED SHORTEST-PATH TUNNELING
    Publication number: 20180227207
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a request to route traffic from a source to a destination in a network, where the request is associated with a setup bandwidth criterion. The method includes: identifying a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and, for each of the plurality of candidate tunnel paths, determining whether or not at least one of the candidate tunnel paths satisfies the setup bandwidth criterion. In response to determining that the plurality of candidate tunnel paths fail to satisfy the setup bandwidth criterion, the method includes: determining a congestion metric for each of a plurality of candidate tunnel paths from the source to the destination; and instantiating a tunnel from the source to the destination according to a candidate tunnel path with the lowest congestion metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Alan Thorton Gous, Eleni Palopoulou