Patents by Inventor Arvind Prabhudev

Arvind Prabhudev 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).

  • Automated discovery/rediscovery of server to network connectivity
    Patent number: 8396059
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus obtains a switch port identifier mapping for each of the plurality of ports of a network device, wherein the switch port identifier mapping indicates a port identifier of one of the plurality of ports of the network device and a switch port identifier of a switch port to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected. The apparatus obtains a set of switch information for each of a plurality of switches, the set of switch information including a set of switch port identifiers associated with the corresponding one of the plurality of switches. The apparatus ascertains for each one of the plurality of ports, a corresponding one of the plurality of switches and a port of the one of the plurality of switches to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Rolfe Kreeger, Elango Ganesan, Siva M. Vaddepuri, Brian Yoshiaki Uchino, Arvind Prabhudev, Joe Joseph Karimundackal