Patents by Inventor Mark Bryers
Mark Bryers 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).
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Patent number: 9083628Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Nazar Zaidi, Yen Lee, Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Zhou, Gregory G. Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed
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Patent number: 8370528Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Yen Lee, John Phillips, Yuhong Andy Zhou, Gregory G. Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed
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Publication number: 20110019550Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Nazar Zaidi, Yen Lee, Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Andy Zhou, Gregory S. Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed
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Patent number: 7813364Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports to accept data packets and a set of sink ports in communication with the input ports to forward the data packets. Each sink port includes a communications link interface with a Retry input. When a signal is asserted on the Retry input, the sink port aborts transmission of a data packet and waits a predetermined period of time to retransmit the data packet.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Patent number: 7765328Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Nazar Zaidi, Yen Lee, Chau Ahn Ngoc Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Andy Zhou, Gregory G. Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed
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Patent number: 7733905Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports for receiving data packets and a set of sink ports for transmitting the received packets to identified targets. A set of data rings couples the input ports to the sink ports. Each sink port utilizes the set of data rings to simultaneously accept multiple data packets targeted to the same destination—creating a non-blocking cross-bar switch. Sink ports are also each capable of supporting multiple targets—providing the cross-bar switch with implicit multicast capability.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Publication number: 20080114887Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Nazar Zaidi, Yen Lee, Chau Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Zhou, Gregory Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed
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Patent number: 7363353Abstract: An architecture for controlling a multiprocessing system to provide at least one network service to subscriber data packets transmitted in the system using a plurality of compute elements, comprising a management compute element including service set-up information for at least one service and at least one processing compute element applying said at least one network service to said data packets and communicating service set-up information with the management compute element in order to perform service specific operations on data packets. In a further embodiment, a method of controlling a processing system including a plurality of processors is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Elango Ganesan, Ramesh Panwar, Yen Lee, Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Andy Zhou, Gregory G Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed, Mark Bryers, Nazar Zaidi
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Patent number: 7305492Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Nazar Zaidi, Yen Lee, Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Andy Zhou, Gregory G. Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed
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Publication number: 20070127469Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports for receiving data packets and a set of sink ports for transmitting the received packets to identified targets. A set of data rings couples the input ports to the sink ports. Each sink port utilizes the set of data rings to simultaneously accept multiple data packets targeted to the same destination—creating a non-blocking cross-bar switch. Sink ports are also each capable of supporting multiple targets—providing the cross-bar switch with implicit multicast capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2007Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Publication number: 20070091880Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports to accept data packets and a set of sink ports in communication with the input ports to forward the data packets. Each sink port includes a communications link interface with a Retry input. When a signal is asserted on the Retry input, the sink port aborts transmission of a data packet and waits a predetermined period of time to retransmit the data packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2006Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Patent number: 7170902Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports to accept data packets and a set of sink ports in communication with the input ports to forward the data packets. Each sink port includes a communications link interface with a Retry input. When a signal is asserted on the Retry input, the sink port aborts transmission of a data packet and waits a predetermined period of time to retransmit the data packet.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Patent number: 7123585Abstract: Each sink port in a cross-bar switch provides for allocating bandwidth among data packets. Packets are assigned priority levels, and the cross-bar switch regulates bandwidth allocation for each priority level. A sink port records traffic volume for packet data of each priority level. The sink port calculates a weighted average bandwidth for each different priority level and determines whether to reject packet data for the priority level. When the packet data collected by a sink port exceeds a threshold, the sink port rejects data packets with priority levels having excessive weighted average bandwidths.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Patent number: 7103058Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports for receiving data packets and a set of sink ports for transmitting the received packets to identified targets. A set of data rings couples the input ports to the sink ports. Each sink port utilizes the set of data rings to accept data packets targeted to destinations supported by the sink port. The cross-bar switch includes a multi-sink port for supporting explicit multicast addressing. The multi-sink port is coupled to each data ring and each sink port. The multi-sink port snoops multicast packets on the cross-bar switch's rings and transfers each packet to a set of sink ports that support the packet's targeted destinations.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers
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Patent number: 7082139Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports to receive data packets and a set of sink ports in communication with the input ports to receive the data packets and forward them onto a communications link. Each sink port is adapted to concurrently receive multiple data packets targeted to the same destination or multiple destinations. For example, one sink port receives a first data packet and a second data packet. The one sink port receives at least a portion of the second data packet during a time period in which the one sink port is receiving the first data packet.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers
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Patent number: 7068603Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports for receiving data packets and a set of sink ports for transmitting the received packets to identified targets. A set of data rings couples the input ports to the sink ports. Each sink port utilizes the set of data rings to simultaneously accept multiple data packets targeted to the same destination—creating a non-blocking cross-bar switch. Sink ports are also each capable of supporting multiple targets—providing the cross-bar switch with implicit multicast capability.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2001Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers, Fred Gruner
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Patent number: 7065090Abstract: A cross-bar switch includes a set of input ports and a set of sink ports in communication with the input ports. The input ports receive packets, which are snooped by the sink ports. The cross-bar switch also includes a set of port address tables. Each port address table is adapted to store data identifying a plurality of destinations supported by a sink port. For example, a first port address table is adapted to identify a plurality of destinations supported by a first sink port in the set of sink ports. When determining whether to accept a packet, a sink port considers whether the packet's destination is identified in the sink port's port address table. By supporting multiple destinations, a port address table implicitly facilitates a sink port's multicast operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Abbas Rashid, Nazar Zaidi, Mark Bryers
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Publication number: 20050262263Abstract: A compute engine allocates data path bandwidth among different classes of packets. The compute engine identifies a packet's class and determines whether to transmit the packet based on the class' available bandwidth. If the class has available bandwidth, the compute engine grants the packet access to the data path. Otherwise, the compute engine only grants the packet access to the data path if none of the other packets waiting for data path access have a class with available bandwidth. After a packet is provided to the data path, the compute engine decrements a bandwidth allocation count for the packet's class. Once the bandwidth count for each class is exhausted, the compute engine sets each count to a respective starting value-reflecting the amount of bandwidth available to a class relative to the other classes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Robert Hathaway, Frederick Gruner, Mark Bryers
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Patent number: 6938093Abstract: A compute engine allocates data path bandwidth among different classes of packets. The compute engine identifies a packet's class and determines whether to transmit the packet based on the class' available bandwidth. If the class has available bandwidth, the compute engine grants the packet access to the data path. Otherwise, the compute engine only grants the packet access to the data path if none of the other packets waiting for data path access have a class with available bandwidth. After a packet is provided to the data path, the compute engine decrements a bandwidth allocation count for the packet's class. Once the bandwidth count for each class is exhausted, the compute engine sets each count to a respective starting value—reflecting the amount of bandwidth available to a class relative to the other classes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Robert Hathaway, Frederick Gruner, Mark Bryers
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Publication number: 20030126233Abstract: A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Mark Bryers, Elango Ganesan, Frederick Gruner, David Hass, Robert Hathaway, Ramesh Panwar, Ricardo Ramirez, Abbas Rashid, Mark Vilas, Nazar Zaidi, Yen Lee, Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen, John Phillips, Yuhong Andy Zhou, Gregory G. Spurrier, Sankar Ramanoorthi, Michael Freed