Patents by Inventor Ana H. Burghelea

Ana H. Burghelea 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 system for optimized switchover of redundant forwarding engines
    Patent number: 7861109
    Abstract: A method of failure recovery in a network element is disclosed. The method includes indicating to a number of forwarding engines that a forwarding engine has completed a switchover operation and causing at least one of the forwarding engines to acknowledge that the forwarding engine has completed the switchover operation in response to the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus A. Maranhao, Michael Roy Smith, John M. Knight, Rohit Shrivastava, Ana H. Burghelea
  • Method and system for optimized switchover of redundant forwarding engines
    Patent number: 7421612
    Abstract: A method of failure recovery in a network element is disclosed. The method includes indicating to a number of forwarding engines that a forwarding engine has completed a switchover operation and causing at least one of the forwarding engines to acknowledge that the forwarding engine has completed the switchover operation in response to the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus A. Maranhao, Michael Roy Smith, John M. Knight, Rohit Shrivastava, Ana H. Burghelea