Patents by Inventor Brad McConnell

Brad McConnell 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: 20140269435
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods are provided for performing distributed network billing in a datacenter environment. The method includes receiving a network packet including a destination identifier in a virtual switch from a virtual machine of a server of a datacenter associated with a customer of the datacenter, determining if the destination identifier is present in an accounting list of the virtual switch that includes destination identifiers each associated with a first billing rate, and if so, updating a counter associated with the accounting list according to a size of the network packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Brad McConnell, Erik Carlin