Patents by Inventor Craig E. Foster

Craig E. Foster 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).

  • Pool-based network diagnostic systems and methods
    Patent number: 8259587
    Abstract: A networking system may include one or more nodes communicating with each other. The nodes may communicate via one or more links, which a switch or other structure may provide. The networking system may include one or more pools of at least one network diagnostic module. A network diagnostic module may test one or more links and may be configured to rove among a plurality of links. The networking system may include an alarm module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventors: Genti Cuni, Craig E. Foster
  • Pool-based network diagnostic systems and methods
    Patent number: 7907532
    Abstract: A networking system may include one or more nodes communicating with each other. The nodes may communicate via one or more links, which a switch or other structure may provide. The networking system may include one or more pools of at least one network diagnostic module. A network diagnostic module may test one or more links and may be configured to rove among a plurality of links. The networking system may include an alarm module. The alarm module may configure one or more network diagnostic modules to test a link. Preferably, the alarm module may, at least partially in response to a first network diagnostic module detecting particular conditions on a link, configure one or more other network diagnostic modules to test a link. The alarm module may configure the one or more other network diagnostic modules according to priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: JDS Uniphase Corporation
    Inventors: Genti Cuni, Craig E. Foster
  • Deferred processing of continuous metrics
    Patent number: 7788365
    Abstract: Network monitoring is performed using a three-tiered distributed computing system architecture, including a data source tier, a portal tier and a client tier. The data source tier monitors the physical data on the network medium using multiple data collection sources connected to the network. The probes analyze network data and generate fundamental metrics that describe attributes of the network data. The portal tier encapsulates the fundamental metrics along with executable processor objects into data containers having a predefined format. The processor objects contain logic that operates on fundamental metrics contained in the data containers in a manner so as to generate new derived metrics or aggregates of metric data. The data containers may be requested by the client tier, which executes the processor objects and provides a user interface for displaying various types of network information derived from the contents of data containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventors: Craig E. Foster, Lawrence M. Bain