Patents by Inventor Craig Hobbs

Craig Hobbs 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).

  • Patent number: 8650311
    Abstract: A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. A client device configured to connect to the smart network may implement one or more modules configured to facilitate connecting to the smart network, registering the client device or services running on the client device with the smart network, diagnosing issues with the client device or the smart network, and upgrading the firmware of the client device. The client device may be configured to perform the various operations with minimal input from an owner of the smart network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Dattagupta, John Furlan, Mark Carroll, Chong Liang Li, Insung Kim, Edward James, Matthew Tebbs, Craig Hobbs, Mark Chekhanovskiy, Dan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8626921
    Abstract: A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. Each of the client devices includes network layer 2 and 3 attributes as well as network layer 7 application attributes. The application attributes are enumerated as named services, which each client device registers with the smart network host device. When a client device needs access to a named service, the smart network host device uses layer 2, 3, and 7 attributes associated with the client device to select a suitable server for providing the named service to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Chekhanovskiy, Mark Carroll, Siddhartha Dattagupta, John Furlan, Craig Hobbs, Edward James, Insung Kim, Chong Liang Li, Dan Nguyen, Matthew Tebbs
  • Patent number: 8601135
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for a client application on a computing device to perform a configuration process with a wireless access point. The access point exposes an isolated, unsecured Access Point which provides access to the DHCP services and services by which a client application can run the WPS registration process over a TCP (or higher layer protocol) connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: CISCO Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Lang, Craig Hobbs, Steve Kelly, John-Anthony Owens
  • Publication number: 20130173702
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for a client application on a computing device to perform a configuration process with a wireless access point. The access point exposes an isolated, unsecured Access Point which provides access to the DHCP services and services by which a client application can run the WPS registration process over a TCP (or higher layer protocol) connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua LANG, Craig HOBBS, Steve KELLY, John-Anthony OWENS
  • Publication number: 20110282936
    Abstract: A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. Each of the client devices includes network layer 2 and 3 attributes as well as network layer 7 application attributes. The application attributes are enumerated as named services, which each client device registers with the smart network host device. When a client device needs access to a named service, the smart network host device uses layer 2, 3, and 7 attributes associated with the client device to select a suitable server for providing the named service to the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Mark Chekhanovskiy, Mark Carroll, Siddhartha Dattagupta, John Furlan, Craig Hobbs, Edward James, Insung Kim, Chong Liang Li, Dan Nguyen, Matthew Tebbs
  • Publication number: 20110264730
    Abstract: A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. A client device configured to connect to the smart network may implement one or more modules configured to facilitate connecting to the smart network, registering the client device or services running on the client device with the smart network, diagnosing issues with the client device or the smart network, and upgrading the firmware of the client device. The client device may be configured to perform the various operations with minimal input from an owner of the smart network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Siddhartha DATTAGUPTA, John Furlan, Mark Carroll, Chong Liang Li, Insung Kim, Edward James, Matthew Tebbs, Craig Hobbs, Mark Chekhanovskiy, Dan Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20070130566
    Abstract: A cluster comprises a plurality of computer systems, wherein each of the plurality of computer systems is configured to execute one or more virtual machines. Each of the plurality of computer systems comprises hardware and a plurality of instructions. The plurality of instructions, when executed on the hardware, migrates at least a first virtual machine executing on a first computer system of the plurality of computer systems to a second computer system of the plurality of computer systems. The plurality of instructions migrates the first virtual machine responsive to a first load of the first computer system prior to the migration exceeding a second load of the second computer system prior to the migration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Hans van Rietschote, Craig Hobbs, Mahesh Saptarshi
  • Publication number: 20060036939
    Abstract: A facility for enabling the use of user-defined function in a spreadsheet document made up of cells is described. The facility receives a trigger to evaluate cells that include a distinguished cell. In response to receiving the trigger, the facility determines that the distinguished cell contains an invocation of a user-defined function. In response to determining that the distinguished cell contains an invocation of a user-defined function, the facility applies the user-defined function defined in the second cell to both (a) determine a result value for the invocation of the user-defined function and (b) from the determiner's old value, obtain a value for the distinguished cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Hobbs, Daniel Clay
  • Publication number: 20050034059
    Abstract: A facility for evaluating a spreadsheet cell is described. The facility reads a function call stored in a spreadsheet cell. The function call specifies an arbitrary geometric path and an operation to be performed on the specified path. The facility performs the specified operation on the specified path, and attributes one or more values produced thereby as the evaluated value of the spreadsheet cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2002
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Craig Hobbs