Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Lynn Ellis

Jeffrey Lynn Ellis 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 systems for exchanging reachability information and for switching traffic between redundant interfaces in a network cluster
    Patent number: 6954794
    Abstract: Methods and systems for exchanging reachability information and for switching between redundant interfaces in a network cluster are disclosed. Nodes in the network cluster are connected via redundant links and exchange reachability messages at periodic intervals. Each node includes a kernel routing table used to route messages and a reachability application routing table for storing reachability information used to update entries in the kernel routing table. Each node executes a predetermined algorithm for selecting entries in the reachability application routing table to be written to the kernel routing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Tekelec
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Rudd, Benjamin Crawford Robinson, Jeffrey Lynn Ellis, David F. Knierim
  • Methods and systems for exchanging reachability information and for switching traffic between redundant interfaces in a network cluster
    Publication number: 20040078481
    Abstract: Methods and systems for exchanging reachability information and for switching between redundant interfaces in a network cluster are disclosed. Nodes in the network cluster are connected via redundant links and exchange reachability messages at periodic intervals. Each node includes a kernel routing table used to route messages and a reachability application routing table for storing reachability information used to update entries in the kernel routing table. Each node executes a predetermined algorithm for selecting entries in the reachability application routing table to be written to the kernel routing table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: Tekelec
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Rudd, Benjamin Crawford Robinson, Jeffrey Lynn Ellis, David F. Knierim