Patents by Inventor Robert J. Biskner

Robert J. Biskner 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).

  • Triggering flow analysis at intermediary devices
    Patent number: 7706278
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a router examines an incoming packet for a flow monitoring request. The router may examine every packet for the flow monitoring request, or preferably may only examine packets including a lifetime value indicating that the packet should be dropped and not forwarded or may only examine packets having a predetermined message format. When the flow monitoring request is included, the router performs detailed flow analysis or other monitoring according to the flow monitoring request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Wing, Robert J. Biskner, Rajesh Kumar, Mohamed S. Mostafa
  • Method and system for alert throttling in media quality monitoring
    Patent number: 7606149
    Abstract: A method for alert throttling in media quality monitoring, includes monitoring a plurality of active communication sessions. Each active communication session is between at least two endpoints. The method also includes detecting at least one quality-impacted communication session out of the plurality of active communication sessions. The method also includes generating a first alert for each detected quality-impacted communication session out of the plurality of active communication sessions until a first throttling number of quality-impacted communication sessions is detected out of the plurality of active communication sessions. Upon detecting the first throttling number of quality-impacted communication sessions, the method includes generating a second alert for each group of additional second number of quality-impacted communication sessions detected out of the plurality of active communication sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar, Randall P. J. Ethier, Chelliah Sivachelvan, Robert J. Biskner
  • TRIGGERING FLOW ANALYSIS AT INTERMEDIARY DEVICES
    Publication number: 20080175162
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a router examines an incoming packet for a flow monitoring request. The router may examine every packet for the flow monitoring request, or preferably may only examine packets including a lifetime value indicating that the packet should be dropped and not forwarded or may only examine packets having a predetermined message format. When the flow monitoring request is included, the router performs detailed flow analysis or other monitoring according to the flow monitoring request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Wing, Robert J. Biskner, Rajesh Kumar, Mohamed S. Mostafa
  • Method and System for Adaptive Media Quality Monitoring
    Publication number: 20070286351
    Abstract: A method for adaptive media quality monitoring includes monitoring at least one metric of a call between at least two endpoints and detecting a threshold crossing event via the monitoring of the at least one metric. The method also includes executing a threshold crossing action based on detecting the threshold crossing event. The threshold crossing action comprises monitoring at least one additional metric of the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Randall P.J. Ethier, Rajesh Kumar, Robert J. Biskner, Chelliah Sivachelvan, Mohamed S. Mostafa, Scott S. Firestone, Michael A. Ramalho, Kevin J. Connor, James C. Frauenthal, Michael P. Hammer