Patents Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11916698
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for requesting a cellular IP address by initiating a call with a modem, establishing data packet network connectivity with the cellular IP address, assigning the cellular IP address to a virtual L2-bridge interface, wherein the virtual L2-bridge interface includes a MAC address, mapping a MAC address of a virtual machine with the MAC address of the virtual L2-bridge interface, detecting a change in the cellular IP address, and updating the virtual L2-bridge interface with a different cellular IP address while maintaining the data packet network connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Jindal, Sabita Jasty, Madhusudana Rao Kata, Krishna Mohan Menon, Keith Neil Mark Dsouza, Virajitha Karnatapu, Yegappan Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 11917793
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured for insertion into a network device and includes a printed circuit board, at least one electronic component mounted on the printed circuit board and configured for direct air-cooling, and an enclosure comprising a plurality of electronic components, an electrical connector, a fluid inlet connector, and a fluid outlet connector. A dielectric liquid is disposed within the enclosure for immersion cooling of said plurality of electronic components during operation of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Nowell, M. Baris Dogruoz, Mandy Hin Lam, Rakesh Chopra
  • Patent number: 11916701
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method herein comprises: establishing, by a process, a virtual private network connection (VPN connection) with a particular VPN gateway; requesting, by the process, observability monitoring through the particular VPN gateway, wherein requesting results in a controller being informed about the particular VPN gateway and a domain of the particular VPN gateway; receiving, by the process, test specifics from the controller based on the particular VPN gateway and the domain of the particular VPN gateway; and executing, by the process, one or more tests to the particular VPN gateway based on the test specifics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rajesh Indira Viswambharan, Vinay Saini, Ram Mohan Ravindranath, Nagendra Kumar Nainar
  • Patent number: 11916374
    Abstract: A system is provided that includes a power transmitter configured to provide power to a current loop, a power receiver configured to receive the power from the current loop. The power receiver is configured to, on a periodic basis, disconnect from the current loop to stop pulling power from the current loop for a period of time to enable a safety check to be performed by the power transmitter. The power transmitter is configured to: monitor current on the current loop; determine whether a current level on the current loop passes the safety check within a predetermined time interval since a determination that the current level was not within a safe range; and control connectivity of the power to the current loop depending on whether the safety check has or has not passed within the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Dewayne Potterf, Chad M. Jones, Joel Richard Goergen
  • Patent number: 11916758
    Abstract: Techniques for service level performance updates based on network level factors are described. by establishing a co-operative model between a network fabric and service proxies to enhance the service mesh failure management primitives as well as bring in network level intelligence in service (service instance) placement decisions in the fabric. A virtual network edge (VNE) instance interacts with the network fabric including the next level switches (such as a top of rack switch) and a network controller in order to determine a network level health-score and a modulated health-score for a service instance executing on the node. The modulated health score causes actions such as an influence on load balancing, request routing, rolling upgrades, canary deployments, change in the utilization of network resources, a downgrade of service, etc., based on the network level health-score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sourabh S. Patwardhan, Maithili Narasimha
  • Patent number: 11916614
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying at a first powered device in communication with power sourcing equipment, a second powered device in communication with the first powered device, wherein the first powered device is receiving high voltage pulse power from the power sourcing equipment, notifying the power sourcing equipment of the second powered device at the first powered device, and performing a low voltage power initialization at the first powered device with the second powered device before passing the high voltage pulse power to the second powered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Paul Arduini, Sung Kee Baek, Richard Anthony O'Brien, Joel Richard Goergen, Chad M. Jones, Jason DeWayne Potterf, Ruqi Li
  • Patent number: 11916770
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods to process timing information of flows in a network. One or more processors determine a latency associated with each of one or more packets of a flow passing through a device. The one or more processors determine that the latency is greater than a baseline latency, and the one or more processors provide a message indicating at least the flow and that the latency is greater than the baseline latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Padmanab Pathikonda, Rishi Chhibber, Roshan Lal, Lakshmi Priya Sarma, Vinay Narayana Rai, Akash Garg
  • Patent number: 11916752
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains an indication of a network event predicted by a routing engine for a network. The device initiates monitoring of one or more network paths associated with the network event, to determine one or more states of the network. The device makes a comparison between the one or more states of the network and a set of one or more constraints. The device provides a prediction cancelation notification to the routing engine, based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Pierre-André Savalle
  • Patent number: 11915715
    Abstract: Techniques for performing conditional or controlled noise removal from audio that may contain background noise. The techniques involve obtaining audio from an environment that may have one or more unwanted noise sources, and converting the audio to digital audio data. The digital audio data is analyzed to detect whether there is noise in the audio. When noise is detected in the audio, noise removal is performed on the digital audio data to remove the noise from the audio. When noise is not detected in the audio, the digital audio data is further processed without performing noise removal on the digital audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Griffin, Svein Gunnar Storebakken Pettersen, Torjus Haukom
  • Patent number: 11916932
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a traffic inspection service executed by an intermediary device obtains, from a monitoring agent executed by an endpoint device, keying information for an encrypted traffic session between the endpoint device and a remote entity. The traffic inspection service provides a notification to the monitoring agent that acknowledges receipt of the keying information. The traffic inspection service uses the keying information to decrypt encrypted traffic from the encrypted traffic session. The traffic inspection service applies a policy to the encrypted traffic session between the endpoint device and the remote entity, based on the decrypted traffic from the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Rehak, David McGrew, Blake Harrell Anderson, Scott William Dunlop
  • Patent number: 11916324
    Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting to an array of surface contacts includes a connector body and a plurality of cable terminators. The connector body defines an interior volume and includes an external surface defining a plurality of cable openings each configured to receive a respective multi-conductor cable therethrough and a plurality of passageways. The plurality of cable terminators are each configured to couple with a respective multi-conductor cable exiting the second section of a respective passageway. Each cable terminator includes a plurality of pins each configured to couple with a respective conductor of the multi-conductor cable and to extend to a respective contact surface. The contact surfaces of the plurality of cable terminators extend to a second plane. The first plane and the second plane are coplanar when the array is in the connection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Nowell, D. Brice Achkir, Joel R. Goergen, Giovanni Giobbio, Mary K. Laue
  • Patent number: 11916972
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a networking device in a network receives traffic from the network. The networking device duplicates the traffic into a duplicate traffic copy. The networking device encapsulates the duplicate traffic copy into a multicast frame. The networking device sends, via a multicast address, the multicast frame to a network sensor in the network for analysis, wherein the multicast address is reserved in the network for traffic analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Lin Zhang, Alex Wang, Srinivas Tenneti, Heather Riley Hilldale, Erika Franco Acevedo
  • Patent number: 11916985
    Abstract: Methods are provided in which a recording service obtains a multimedia stream along with metadata of an established collaboration session in which at least two participants collaborate via respective user devices. The recording service identifies each of the at least two participants of the established collaboration session based on the metadata and obtains an individual recording privacy control associated with each of the at least two participants based on identifying. The recording service further generates a recording of the established collaboration session restricted by the individual recording privacy control for each of the at least two participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: John Costello, Robert Patrick Headon
  • Patent number: 11917015
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate infrastructure and policy orchestration in a shared workspace network environment. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a service broker, a reservation request from a consumer network for a consumer, wherein the reservation request seeks a reservation to reserve, at least in part, at least one workspace device for the consumer for a workspace for a particular day and a particular time period; based on determining that the at least one workspace device is available, providing a response to the consumer network that includes a first indicator for identifying the reservation of the workspace and at least one second indicator identifying the at least one workspace device; and upon receiving a session request from the consumer network that includes the second indicator, establishing a management tunnel to interconnect the consumer network and the at least one workspace device via the service broker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Carlos M. Pignataro, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, David John Zacks, John Matthew Swartz, Akram Ismail Sheriff
  • Patent number: 11916670
    Abstract: Preamble puncturing configuration information is encoded in a pad field, and alternatively or additionally, in a Service Field, depending on a transmission bandwidth of a Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). Some implementations also encode one or more parity bits in the pad field or Service field. The PPDU including the preamble puncturing configuration information encodes, in various embodiments, a request to send frame, a clear to send frame, a power save poll frame, or a contention free end frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Hart, Zhigang Gao
  • Publication number: 20240064535
    Abstract: Wireless infrastructure upgrading may be provided. An Access Point (AP) may be caused to decline new association requests received from client devices not associated with the AP. Next, the AP may be caused to instruct client devices associated with the AP that detect a signal level from the AP to be below their roaming margin to roam away from the AP. Then the power of the signal level from the AP may be decreased by a predetermined amount. Causing the AP to instruct client devices associated with the AP that detect the signal level from the AP to be below their roaming margin to roam away from the AP and decreasing the power of the signal level from the AP may be repeated until the power of the signal level from the AP is at a predetermined level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinay Saini, Ankush Ganpatrai Arora, Midhun Kumar Gundavarapu, Jerome Henry
  • Publication number: 20240064576
    Abstract: Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) Quality of Service (QoS) in overlapped administrative domains may be provided. A first Access Point (AP) may detect at least a second AP in a Co-Channel Interference (CCI) range. A micro-transaction auction between the first AP and at least the second AP may be established, and the first AP may provide compensation to second AP to acquire an agreement, from the second AP, to forgo transmitting during an upcoming service period. Next, the first AP may schedule transmissions for the service period and then transmit in the service period without interference from the second AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Hart, Pooya Monajemi, Malcolm Muir Smith
  • Publication number: 20240064788
    Abstract: Adapting transmission schedules in a Radio Frequency (RF) environment may be provided. A Central Network Controller (CNC) of a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) may determine that a data path to a client device comprises a wireless link. The CNC of the TSN may generate a proposed transmission schedule for the time sensitive traffic to the client device through the wireless link in response to determining that the data path to the client device comprises the wireless link. The CNC may provide the proposed transmission schedule to a Wireless Network Controller (WLC) of the wireless link. The CNC may receive a confirmation from the WLC that the proposed transmission schedule can be met. The proposed transmission schedule may be configured in response to receiving the confirmation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Barton, Jerome Henry, Maik Guenter Seewald, Malcolm Muir Smith
  • Publication number: 20240064101
    Abstract: A device for a virtual phone in a virtual network may be provided. A data packet may be received by the device, the device being in a personal-area-network (PAN) with a peer, the data packet containing information defining a characteristic of a software application. The data packet may be profiled, the data packet comprising information about the software application. An SLA table stored on the device may be seeded with the information in the data packet. A routing table may be populated with an address for forwarding the information to the peer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Eric Voit, Pradeep Kumar Kathail
  • Patent number: 11907670
    Abstract: A computer executed process for mimicking human dialog, referred to herein as a “humanoid” or “humanoid process software,” can be configured to participate in multi-party conversations. The humanoid can monitor electronic communications in a conversation involving the humanoid and at least one other party. The humanoid can model the electronic communications by uniquely identifying each of the electronic communications as a stream of data. For example, the data can be labeled and sorted in a database and/or arranged in a nodal graph representation. The humanoid can participate in the conversation based on the modeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: David C. White, Jr., Christopher Shaun Roberts, Magnus Mortensen, Jay Kemper Johnston