Patents by Inventor Premchandar Namasivayam

Premchandar Namasivayam 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).

  • Integrated audit and configuration techniques
    Patent number: 7761794
    Abstract: Techniques for integrated audit and configuration are provided. The techniques include receiving a request from a user to analyze first configuration information with a second set of configuration information; receiving the first configuration information; analyzing one or more parameters of the first configuration information with the second set of configuration information to result in creating and storing comparison information; displaying the comparison information; choosing one or more action mechanisms to provide to the user for each of the one or more parameters based on the comparison information; and enabling the user to perform one or more actions associated with the one or more action mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikumar Chari, Jason Yansheng Jiang, Premchandar Namasivayam, Swapnil Pathrikar
  • Method and apparatus for automatically configuring a network device
    Patent number: 7457853
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically generating a configuration for a network device is disclosed, comprising the computer-implemented steps of receiving a partial configuration for a network device, wherein the partial configuration comprises a plurality of configuration commands, wherein each of one or more of the configuration commands is associated with one of a plurality of user interface elements; parsing the partial configuration to identify the user interface elements; generating a user interface page based on the user interface elements; receiving one or more configuration parameter values via the user interface page; and substituting the configuration parameter values into the partial configuration to result in creating a complete configuration for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikumar Chari, Premchandar Namasivayam, Jaidil Mohan K.