Patents by Inventor Roderick P. Silton

Roderick P. Silton 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).

  • Dynamic configuration of edge forwarders to route servers in a distributed router system
    Patent number: 6335926
    Abstract: A configuration server is incorporated into a distributed router to support multiple route servers in an internetworking system. The multiple route servers in the system provide load sharing and/or standby functionality. In the system route servers provide routing decisions while edge forwarders are the packet forwarding elements. The configuration server is responsible for mapping edge forwarders to route servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Newbridge Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Roderick P. Silton, Richard A. Chan, Ramana Gollamudi
  • Automatic link establishment between distributed servers through an NBMA network
    Patent number: 6327252
    Abstract: The invention relates to distributed computer or server networks and to methods of automatically establishing communication links between individual servers in the network. By taking advantage of the properties of group addresses (anycast addresses) inherent in certain networking technologies, coupled with innovative discovery and hunt protocols the servers in the network all become members of an overlay spanning tree where the tree is comprised of servers as nodes and communication links as edges. Discovery and hunt protocols are implemented to locate peer servers in the network and communication links are set up as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Alcatel Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick P. Silton, Sirish Bajpai