Patents by Inventor Khalid M. Elshatali

Khalid M. Elshatali 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).

  • Traffic policing for MPLS-based network
    Patent number: 9059912
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a storage medium provide for storing traffic policies pertaining to egress traffic to a network; receiving a traffic flow; computing a route for the traffic flow; identifying at least one of one or more labels associated with the traffic flow or a network address associated with a remote provider edge device associated with the traffic flow; selecting one or more traffic policies in response to at least one of an identification of the one or more labels or an identification of the network address; and transmitting along the route in the network according to the one or more traffic policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Fengman Xu, William F. Copeland, Khalid M. Elshatali, Luis M. Tomotaki
  • Virtual private network to label switched path mapping
    Patent number: 9036477
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a storage medium provide for storing an extended forwarding information base that includes path values that indicate paths to route traffic, wherein the paths include optimal and sub-optimal paths based on a shortest path metric; receiving a traffic flow; inspecting the traffic flow; selecting a next hop and one of the path values associated with the next hop based on the inspecting; identifying one or more paths to route the traffic flow in accordance with one or more paths indicated by the one of the path values; and transmitting the traffic flow along the one or more paths toward a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Fengman Xu, William F. Copeland, Khalid M. Elshatali
  • VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK TO LABEL SWITCHED PATH MAPPING
    Publication number: 20140160925
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a storage medium provide for storing an extended forwarding information base that includes path values that indicate paths to route traffic, wherein the paths include optimal and sub-optimal paths based on a shortest path metric; receiving a traffic flow; inspecting the traffic flow; selecting a next hop and one of the path values associated with the next hop based on the inspecting; identifying one or more paths to route the traffic flow in accordance with one or more paths indicated by the one of the path values; and transmitting the traffic flow along the one or more paths toward a destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Fengman Xu, William F. Copeland, Khalid M. Elshatali
  • Traffic Policing For MPLS-Based Network
    Publication number: 20130223221
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a storage medium provide for storing traffic policies pertaining to egress traffic to a network; receiving a traffic flow; computing a route for the traffic flow; identifying at least one of one or more labels associated with the traffic flow or a network address associated with a remote provider edge device associated with the traffic flow; selecting one or more traffic policies in response to at least one of an identification of the one or more labels or an identification of the network address; and transmitting along the route in the network according to the one or more traffic policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Fengman Xu, William F. Copeland, Khalid M. Elshatali, Luis M. Tomotaki