Patents by Inventor Ambitabha Biswas

Ambitabha Biswas 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).

  • Method and apparatus for performing connection management with multiple stacks
    Patent number: 7554993
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a communication device for use in a node of a system having a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes may include network interface controllers (“NICs”) and each of the NICs may have a public identifier and a private identifier associated therewith. A first protocol stack may operate according to a first protocol that is associated with the public identifier and a second protocol stack may operate according to a second protocol that is associated with the private identifier. A storage device may associate the public identifier of one or more of the NICs with the first protocol stack and the private identifier of one or more of the NICs with the second protocol stack. Received messages that incorporate the public identifier may be directed to the first protocol stack and messages that incorporate the private identifier may be directed to the second protocol stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Prashant Modi, Ambitabha Biswas, Kathryn Hampton, Yiu Yip, Dwight L. Barron, Jeffrey R. Hilland
  • Method and apparatus for performing connection management with multiple stacks
    Publication number: 20040190533
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a communication device for use in a node of a system having a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes may include network interface controllers (“NICs”) and each of the NICs may have a public identifier and a private identifier associated therewith. A first protocol stack may operate according to a first protocol that is associated with the public identifier and a second protocol stack may operate according to a second protocol that is associated with the private identifier. A storage device may associate the public identifier of one or more of the NICs with the first protocol stack and the private identifier of one or more of the NICs with the second protocol stack. Received messages that incorporate the public identifier may be directed to the first protocol stack and messages that incorporate the private identifier may be directed to the second protocol stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Prashant Modi, Ambitabha Biswas, Kathryn Hampton, Yiu Yip, Dwight L. Barron, Jeffrey R. Hilland