Patents by Inventor Aaron J. Loyd

Aaron J. Loyd 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).

  • Determining network paths
    Patent number: 7957364
    Abstract: In an embodiment of a method of tracing a path through a switch mesh from a first device connected to the switch mesh to a second device connected to the switch mesh, hardware addresses of the first and second devices are obtained. At least one switch that is a neighbor to the first device is identified. At least one switch that is a neighbor to the first device is queried to identify at least one port of at least one switch that is forwarding packets having the hardware addresses of the first and second devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Aaron J. Loyd, Srikanth Natarajan, Dipankar Gupta
  • Method and system for managing a network slowdown
    Patent number: 7564796
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for managing a network slowdown. The method includes measuring a time for a packet to travel from a source node over a given path to a destination node in the network; comparing the time with a threshold for the path; and generating an event when the time exceeds the threshold, wherein the event identifies a hop along the path which exceeds a hop limit within the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Aaron J. Loyd
  • System and method for displaying network status in a network topology
    Publication number: 20030084146
    Abstract: An electronic network is monitored by a plurality of diagnostic tools. When a first diagnostic tool determines that a portion of the electronic network is not operating within a preselected specification, at least one other diagnostic tool is instructed to analyze that portion of the network. The data generated by the diagnostic tools is correlated to better determine the cause of the network not operating within the preselected specification, which is then presented to a network user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Cynthia K. Schilling, Jun Su, Chia-Chu S. Dorland, Aaron J. Loyd, David S. Roth, Katherine L. Withers-Miklos
  • System and method for displaying network status in a network topology
    Publication number: 20030079011
    Abstract: An electronic network is monitored by a plurality of diagnostic tools. When a first diagnostic tool determines that a portion of the electronic network is not operating within a preselected specification, at least one other diagnostic tool is instructed to analyze that portion of the network. The data generated by the diagnostic tools is correlated to better determine the cause of the network not operating within the preselected specification, which is then presented to a network user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Cynthia K. Schilling, Jun Su, Chia-Chu S. Dorland, Aaron J. Loyd, David S. Roth, Katherine L. Withers-Miklos