Patents by Inventor Senthil Arunacahalam

Senthil Arunacahalam 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).

  • Platform independent implementation of private VLANS
    Patent number: 7808992
    Abstract: A PVLAN having a primary and secondary VLAN's where the primary and secondary VLAN's have ports and the users connected to those ports. The MAC addresses of those users are learned in the primary or the secondary VLAN's and together with the port designation are stored preferably in tables associated with the VLAN's and the associated VLAN's. Processes are provided that replicate the tables in the other VLAN's so that the information necessary to transfer packets between source and destination ports is available to the associated VLAN's.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjib Homchaudhuri, Senthil Arunacahalam, Sundher Narayanaswamy, Krishna Kumar Vavilala, Abhishek Gupta
  • Platform independent implementation of private VLANS
    Publication number: 20060146835
    Abstract: A PVLAN having a primary and secondary VLAN's where the primary and secondary VLAN's have ports and the users connected to those ports. The MAC addresses of those users are learned in the primary or the secondary VLAN's and together with the port designation are stored preferably in tables associated with the VLAN's and the associated VLAN's. Processes are provided that replicate the tables in the other VLAN's so that the information necessary to transfer packets between source and destination ports is available to the associated VLAN's.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Sanjib Homchaudhuri, Senthil Arunacahalam, Sundher Narayanaswamy, Krishna Vavilala, Abhishek Gupta