Patents by Inventor Brent Mayberry

Brent Mayberry 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).

  • Virtual line cards in a disaggregated optical transport network switching system
    Patent number: 10219050
    Abstract: Methods and systems of a disaggregated optical transport network (OTN) switching system that include using plug-in universal (PIU) modules for OTN to Ethernet transceiving and an Ethernet fabric as a switching core are disclosed. An OTN over Ethernet module in each of the PIU modules may enable various OTN functionality to be realized using the Ethernet fabric which may include multiple Ethernet switches. A virtual line card may include a logical aggregation of a kth Ethernet switch sub-port of each of the corresponding Ethernet switch ports of each of the Ethernet switches. A virtual switch fabric may include multiple virtual line cards for the OTN switching system. Each of the virtual line cards may be associated with a virtual address that may correspond to a respective PIU module. The virtual address may include a media access control address associated with the respective PIU module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Biaodong Cai, Richard Dunsmore, Rod Naphan, Sam Lisle, Deepak Patel, Iqbal Syed, Brent Mayberry
  • VIRTUAL LINE CARDS IN A DISAGGREGATED OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK SWITCHING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170310413
    Abstract: Methods and systems of a disaggregated optical transport network (OTN) switching system that include using plug-in universal (PIU) modules for OTN to Ethernet transceiving and an Ethernet fabric as a switching core are disclosed. An OTN over Ethernet module in each of the PIU modules may enable various OTN functionality to be realized using the Ethernet fabric which may include multiple Ethernet switches. A virtual line card may include a logical aggregation of a kth Ethernet switch sub-port of each of the corresponding Ethernet switch ports of each of the Ethernet switches. A virtual switch fabric may include multiple virtual line cards for the OTN switching system. Each of the virtual line cards may be associated with a virtual address that may correspond to a respective PIU module. The virtual address may include a media access control address associated with the respective PIU module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Biaodong Cai, Richard Dunsmore, Rod Naphan, Sam Lisle, Deepak Patel, Iqbal Syed, Brent Mayberry