Patents Assigned to Redback Networks Inc.
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Patent number: 7698438Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises transmitting a PING from a network element to a computing device, wherein a static route is between the network element and the computing device. The method also includes causing a distribution of availability of the static route to at least one other network element based on whether the computing device responded to the PING.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventor: Naiming Shen
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Patent number: 7680134Abstract: A machine readable medium for tunneling Ethernet is described. A machine readable medium comprises receiving an Ethernet frame and transmitting the Ethernet frame over a non-homogenous tunnel, the tunnel distinguishing subscriber traffic.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventor: Suhail Nanji
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Patent number: 7680031Abstract: A method and apparatus for load balancing and protecting data traffic in an optical ring is described. A method comprises configuring multiple spanning trees in a set of one or more network elements of an optical ring, load balancing with the multiple spanning trees data traffic transmitted in unprotected data channels provisioned through the optical ring, and protecting the unprotected data channels with the multiple spanning trees.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Siegfried Luft, Thomas J. Meehan, Peter J. Owens, Christopher R. Stein
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Patent number: 7653074Abstract: A method and apparatus for virtual private networks (VPNs) is described. A computer implemented method comprises determining a set of endpoints for a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel, determining a key (the key corresponding to a VPN), dynamically establishing the GRE tunnel with the set of endpoints and the key, and processing a set of GRE traffic for the VPN.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Hamid Asayesh, Gerald Neufeld, Rene Tio
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Patent number: 7593432Abstract: A method and apparatus for deframing signals is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of signals at a first clock rate, synchronizing the plurality of signals to a second clock rate, and deframing the plurality of signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Michael McClary, Sharath Narahari, Andrew Tao
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Publication number: 20090210518Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for providing clientless IP services for subscribers on a network interface that does not require either explicit client subnet configurations or explicit routes from the interface to the client subnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2008Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: REDBACK NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Sanjeev K. Verma, Arunkumar M. Desigan, Ravindra Narayan
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Patent number: 7577146Abstract: A network element modifying the DHCP lease timer is described. According to one embodiment, an exemplary method includes maintaining, at a network element, DHCP lease time for one or more clients and in response to a DHCP renewal request from a client, on behalf of a DHCP server, providing DHCP renewal services to the client based on lease time information associated with the client without invoking the DHCP server.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Peter Arberg, Kishore K. Seshadri
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Patent number: 7573814Abstract: A method and apparatus for mesh based protection of an optical network is described. A method comprises protecting a first set of one or more optical sub-channels with automatic protection switching, utilizing a second and third set of one or more optical sub-channels to transmit traffic in accordance with a mesh process to transmit traffic, and transmitting traffic in the third set of optical sub-channels, which would have been transmitted in the second set of optical sub-channels, in accordance with routes determined by the mesh process in response to an alarm indicating a failure affecting the second set of optical sub-channels.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2002Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Siegfried Luft, Thomas Meehan, Gerald W. Neufeld, Simon Williams
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Patent number: 7539131Abstract: Methods and apparatus for rerouting network traffic are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of process includes maintaining as a part of a routing table of a network element information regarding one or more backup links leading to a node using label switched protocols (LSPs), the node being adjacent to the network element, and in response to a failure of a primary link coupling the network element to the node, the network element rerouting network traffic to the node via the one or more backup paths without having to notifying and waiting for a response from a headend node that originates the network traffic. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventor: Naiming Shen
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Patent number: 7519975Abstract: A method and apparatus for exception handling in a multi-processor environment are described. In an embodiment, a method for handling a number of exceptions within a processor in a multi-processing system includes receiving an exception within the processor, wherein each processor in the multi-processor system shares a same memory. The method also includes executing a number of instructions at an address within a common interrupt handling vector address space of the same memory. The number of instructions cause the processor to determine an identification of the processor based on a query that is internal to the processor. Additionally, the method includes modifying execution flow of the exception to execute an interrupt handler located within one of a number of different interrupt handling vector address spaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks, Inc.Inventor: Sanjay Lal
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Patent number: 7512129Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing out-of-order processing of packets is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a packet, which is in an original position relative to other packets; and attempting, by a primary processing unit, to classify and process the packet. The method also includes determining whether the packet was completely classified and processed by the primary processing unit; and upon determining that the primary processing unit completely classified and processed the packet, bypassing a secondary processing unit. The method also includes transmitting the packet onto a network, the packet being transmitted in its original position relative to the other packets.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2002Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: John G. Favor, Edmund G. Chen, Ruchi Wadhawan
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Patent number: 7505472Abstract: A method and apparatus for agnostic PPPoE switching is described. A method in a network element comprises converting Point to Point Protocol (PPP) protocol data units (PDUs) encapsulated according to different protocols into PPP PDUs with a uniform encapsulation, and transmitting the uniformly encapsulated PPP PDUs.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2003Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Onno Mark Becker Hof, Said Ouissal
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Patent number: 7502332Abstract: A method and apparatus for route oscillation reduction is described. A method in a network element comprises advertising to a set of one or more internal peers a best external route if a best overall route is not an external route, wherein external routes are routes communicated from an external peer that is not within the network element's group, wherein said set of internal peers are within the network element's group, and advertising to a set of one or more external peers a best internal route that has been received from an internal peer if the best overall route is not an internal route.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks, Inc.Inventor: Enke Chen
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Patent number: 7489681Abstract: A method and apparatus for virtual circuit routes is described. A method in a network element comprises associating a virtual circuit to a layer 3 next hop, the virtual circuit being associated with a layer 2 protocol specific logical circuit, receiving a packet on the logical circuit, processing the packet with configuration information indicated by the virtual circuit, and forwarding the packet to the layer 3 next hop associated with the virtual circuit without processing the packet's layer 3 header.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks, Inc.Inventors: Rahul Aggarwal, Ajay M. Patel
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Patent number: 7484003Abstract: A method an apparatus for multiple contexts and layer 3 virtual private networks is described. A method comprises providing a layer 3 virtual private network (VPN) to a first customer; providing backbone access to a second customer; and maintaining on a single network element a first set of information for the first customer separately from a second set of information for the second customer.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Ravi Chandra, Enke Chen, Jenny Yuan
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Patent number: 7477642Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing point-to-multipoint label switch paths (LSPs) in a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network is described. In one embodiment, a point-to-multipoint LSP is built in a MPLS network by using Resource Reservation Protocol Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) to signal the point-to-multipoint LSP as separate point-to-point LSPs and to merge the separate point-to-point LSPs into the point-to-multipoint LSP.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Redback Networks, Inc.Inventors: Rahul Aggarwal, George Apostolopoulos, Liming Wei
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Patent number: 7460554Abstract: A method and apparatus for the incorporation of any size and location of concatenated SONET frames, which carry packet data, in an SONET signal are described. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving packet data. Additionally, the method includes concatenating the packet data into a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) signal. The concatenation can be across any locations within the TDM SONET signal, and a size of the concatenation can be in increments of single SONET frames. The method also includes transmitting the TDM SONET signal having the concatenated packet data.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Anurag Nigam, David Stiles
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Patent number: 7433969Abstract: A method and apparatus for representing a label switched path. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises representing a label switched path (LSP) with a data structure, the data structure indicating a virtual ingress and an identifier to distinguish the LSP from other LSPs represented with the same virtual ingress.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Rahul Aggarwal, Ravi Chandra
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Patent number: 7430614Abstract: The use of IP address blocks with default interfaces in a router is described herein. According to one embodiment, an exemplary method includes in response to a request for a first IP address received from a first client at an interface of the network element, assigning the first client an IP address from a first block of IP addresses dynamically allocated from an IP address provider separated from a pool of statically preassigned IP addresses, if there is no IP address remained unassigned in the pool of statically preassigned IP addresses, and advertising reachability information in a network with respect to the first block of the IP addresses dynamically allocated from the IP address provider, such that other entities of the network are aware of the first block of the IP addresses. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Redback Networks, Inc.Inventors: Naiming Shen, Kishore K. Seshadri
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Patent number: 7420973Abstract: Context selection in a network element through subscriber flow switching. According to one embodiment of the invention, authentication, authorization and accounting is performed for a subscriber desiring to connect to a plurality of services on different contexts. In response, bindings are established to a plurality of contexts for the subscriber. In response to receiving a traffic packet from the subscribed, at least certain header information from the traffic packet is accessed. Based on at least the accessed header information, one of the plurality of contexts is selected for that traffic packet.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2004Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Redback Networks Inc.Inventors: Onno Mark Becker Hof, Said Ouissal