Patents by Inventor Chris F. Sefcik

Chris F. Sefcik 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).

  • Cloud WAN overlay network
    Patent number: 10117285
    Abstract: A network device obtains credentials of a customer associated with multiple different cloud providers of which the customer is a subscriber, and establishes, using the credentials of the customer, a cloud wide area network (WAN) overlay network across multiple different cloud computing networks associated with the multiple different cloud providers. The network device, when establishing the cloud WAN overlay network, spins up multiple virtual routers in the cloud resources of the customer at each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, with a different one of the multiple virtual routers being spun up in each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, where each of the multiple different cloud computing networks is associated with a different one of the multiple different cloud providers, and where the multiple virtual routers route data traffic between the different cloud computing networks via the cloud WAN overlay network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Nadella, Chris F. Sefcik, Prasad Deviprasad, Manish Srivastava, Sreenivasa R. Pokuri, Raju Sharma
  • Provisioning network devices based on network connectivity type
    Patent number: 10003655
    Abstract: A device may receive a request to establish a connection between a first device and a second device. The request may include information identifying a network connectivity type. The device may determine one or more network devices to provision based on the network connectivity type; determine, based on the network connectivity type, provisioning parameters used to provision the one or more network devices; and provision the one or more network devices in accordance with the provisioning parameters to establish the connection between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Kumar Mishra, Brian E. Stephenson, Chris F. Sefcik, William F. Copeland, Stephen R. Morris, Syed Ammar Ahmad
  • CLOUD WAN OVERLAY NETWORK
    Publication number: 20170181210
    Abstract: A network device obtains credentials of a customer associated with multiple different cloud providers of which the customer is a subscriber, and establishes, using the credentials of the customer, a cloud wide area network (WAN) overlay network across multiple different cloud computing networks associated with the multiple different cloud providers. The network device, when establishing the cloud WAN overlay network, spins up multiple virtual routers in the cloud resources of the customer at each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, with a different one of the multiple virtual routers being spun up in each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, where each of the multiple different cloud computing networks is associated with a different one of the multiple different cloud providers, and where the multiple virtual routers route data traffic between the different cloud computing networks via the cloud WAN overlay network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Ramesh Nadella, Chris F. Sefcik, Prasad Deviprasad, Manish Srivastava, Sreenivasa R. Pokuri, Raju Sharma
  • PROVISIONING NETWORK DEVICES BASED ON NETWORK CONNECTIVITY TYPE
    Publication number: 20160072894
    Abstract: A device may receive a request to establish a connection between a first device and a second device. The request may include information identifying a network connectivity type. The device may determine one or more network devices to provision based on the network connectivity type; determine, based on the network connectivity type, provisioning parameters used to provision the one or more network devices; and provision the one or more network devices in accordance with the provisioning parameters to establish the connection between the first device and the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Anurag Kumar Mishra, Brian E. Stephenson, Chris F. Sefcik, William F. Copeland, Stephen R. Morris, Syed Ammar Ahmad