Patents by Inventor Robert Brockbank

Robert Brockbank 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).

  • Publication number: 20220247647
    Abstract: A plurality of flow logs associated with a plurality of computing units are aggregated. For each flow event included in the plurality of flow logs a corresponding namespace with which the flow event is associated is determined including by determining a corresponding intermediary associated with the flow event. A network traffic map that visualizes network traffic between a plurality of namespaces is generated based in part on the determined intermediaries associated with the flow events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Brockbank, Alexander Varshavsky, Manish Haridas Sampat, Brendan Creane, Karthik Krishnan Ramasubramanian, Phillip DiCorpo
  • Patent number: 10999101
    Abstract: A controller node receives a list of a first plurality of flows programmed on a network switch. The controller node extracts a flow cookie value from a flow cookie data field of each flow in the first plurality of flows on the received list and calculates a session identifier on the basis of the extracted cookie values. At least one add flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to program a second plurality of flows on the network switch. The at least one add flow command comprises flow cookie values in the flow cookie data fields of each of the flows in the second plurality of flows which are set equal to the calculated session identifier. At least one delete flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to delete programming of the first plurality of flows on the network switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Metaswitch Networks, Ltd
    Inventors: Robert Brockbank, Alex Pollitt, Michael Curtis, Shaun Crampton
  • Publication number: 20180359118
    Abstract: A controller node receives a list of a first plurality of flows programmed on a network switch. The controller node extracts a flow cookie value from a flow cookie data field of each flow in the first plurality of flows on the received list and calculates a session identifier on the basis of the extracted cookie values. At least one add flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to program a second plurality of flows on the network switch. The at least one add flow command comprises flow cookie values in the flow cookie data fields of each of the flows in the second plurality of flows which are set equal to the calculated session identifier. At least one delete flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to delete programming of the first plurality of flows on the network switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Robert BROCKBANK, Alex POLLITT, Michael CURTIS, Shaun CRAMPTON
  • Patent number: 10003474
    Abstract: A controller node receives a list of a first plurality of flows programmed on a network switch. The controller node extracts a flow cookie value from a flow cookie data field of each flow in the first plurality of flows on the received list and calculates a session identifier on the basis of the extracted cookie values. At least one add flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to program a second plurality of flows on the network switch. The at least one add flow command comprises flow cookie values in the flow cookie data fields of each of the flows in the second plurality of flows which are set equal to the calculated session identifier. At least one delete flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to delete programming of the first plurality of flows on the network switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD
    Inventors: Robert Brockbank, Alex Pollitt, Michael Curtis, Shaun Crampton
  • Publication number: 20150319094
    Abstract: A controller node receives a list of a first plurality of flows programmed on a network switch. The controller node extracts a flow cookie value from a flow cookie data field of each flow in the first plurality of flows on the received list and calculates a session identifier on the basis of the extracted cookie values. At least one add flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to program a second plurality of flows on the network switch. The at least one add flow command comprises flow cookie values in the flow cookie data fields of each of the flows in the second plurality of flows which are set equal to the calculated session identifier. At least one delete flow command is transmitted from the controller node to the network switch to delete programming of the first plurality of flows on the network switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Metaswitch Networks Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert BROCKBANK, Alex POLLITT, Spike CURTIS, Shaun CRAMPTON
  • Publication number: 20150319044
    Abstract: Measures for use in generating path configuration data for an optical network. A least cost path calculation process is performed on a network graph representation of the optical network to generate path configuration data for the optical network. Performing the least cost path calculation process comprises performing a network graph expansion process on the network graph representation of the optical network to obtain an expanded network graph representation of the optical network. Performing the network graph expansion process comprises determining data identifying the possible expansion paths to each optical node, the cost of each path and the available wavelengths for each path, grouping together wavelength and path data for paths of equal cost, and at one or more nodes, identifying a subset of one or more wavelengths and performing a wavelength pruning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Metaswitch Networks Ltd
    Inventors: Robert BROCKBANK, Shaun CRAMPTON
  • Patent number: 9166888
    Abstract: Measures for use in generating path configuration data for an optical network. A least cost path calculation process is performed on a network graph representation of the optical network to generate path configuration data for the optical network. Performing the least cost path calculation process comprises performing a network graph expansion process on the network graph representation of the optical network to obtain an expanded network graph representation of the optical network. Performing the network graph expansion process comprises determining data identifying the possible expansion paths to each optical node, the cost of each path and the available wavelengths for each path, grouping together wavelength and path data for paths of equal cost, and at one or more nodes, identifying a subset of one or more wavelengths and performing a wavelength pruning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD
    Inventors: Robert Brockbank, Shaun Crampton
  • Publication number: 20020002907
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing baby milk by reconstituting the contents of a pack of dry baby milk product in a mixing vessel is disclosed. The method includes the steps of adding water into the vessel until the liquid level reaches a liquid level indicator, adding the contents of the pack into the vessel and screwing a liquid tight lid onto the vessel and agitating the contents thereby reconstituting a volume of baby milk sufficient to make up two or more feeds for infants aged 0 to 24 months.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Brockbank