Patents by Inventor Aaron Loyd

Aaron 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).

  • Publication number: 20070171844
    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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Aaron Loyd, Srikanth Natarajan, Dipankar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20070061663
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for analyzing an event in a network. For example, the method for analyzing an event in a network includes identifying a network protocol error in the network, identifying a network hardware failure in the network, correlating the network protocol error and the network hardware failure to determine a correlation result, and outputting the correlation result to a user interface. The correlation output can provide an indication of a relationship between the network protocol error and the network hardware failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Aaron Loyd, Srikanth Natarajan, Edwin Jones
  • Publication number: 20060072479
    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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventor: Aaron Loyd
  • Publication number: 20030028577
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for automated event polling in a network. A server receives a HTTP request for data from a database on the server. A client generates the HTTP request for the data. The server responds to the request by reformatting the data into an XML format. The server then transmits the data in XML format to the client. The client receives the data transmitted from the server in XML format and converts the data in XML format to a format used by the client software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Chia-Chu Dorland, Aaron Loyd, Michael Haeuptle