Patents by Inventor Asaf Wachtel

Asaf Wachtel 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).

  • System-wide synchronized switch-over of multicast flows
    Patent number: 10320952
    Abstract: A network device includes multiple ports, for communicating over a communication network, and packet processing circuitry. The packet processing circuitry is configured to receive via the ports packets belonging to a plurality of multicast flows, to receive, for each of the multicast flows, (i) a first configuration that specifies clients that are to receive the multicast flow prior to a specified switch-over time, and (ii) a second configuration that specifies the clients that are to receive the multicast flow after the specified switch-over time, to forward the multicast flows via the ports in accordance with the first configuration, to extract from a field in at least one of the packets a value that is indicative of the switch-over time, and, based on the extracted value, to switch-over forwarding of the multicast flows from the first configuration to the second configuration simultaneously at the switch-over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TLV LTD.
    Inventors: Aviad Raveh, Gil Bloch, Richard Mark Hastie, Asaf Wachtel
  • SYSTEM-WIDE SYNCHRONIZED SWITCH-OVER OF MULTICAST FLOWS
    Publication number: 20170331926
    Abstract: A network device includes multiple ports, for communicating over a communication network, and packet processing circuitry. The packet processing circuitry is configured to receive via the ports packets belonging to a plurality of multicast flows, to receive, for each of the multicast flows, (i) a first configuration that specifies clients that are to receive the multicast flow prior to a specified switch-over time, and (ii) a second configuration that specifies the clients that are to receive the multicast flow after the specified switch-over time, to forward the multicast flows via the ports in accordance with the first configuration, to extract from a field in at least one of the packets a value that is indicative of the switch-over time, and, based on the extracted value, to switch-over forwarding of the multicast flows from the first configuration to the second configuration simultaneously at the switch-over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Aviad Raveh, Gil Bloch, Richard Mark Hastie, Asaf Wachtel