Patents by Inventor Deepa Seshadri

Deepa Seshadri 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).

  • Source IP-based pruning of traffic toward dually-connected overlay hosts in a data communications environment
    Patent number: 9306837
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining a source of a packet received at a network element and characterizing a link on which the packet was received. The method further includes forwarding the packet to an overlay network and locally connected hosts other than a source of the packet if the source of the packet is a local host and the link is a local link; forwarding the packet to hosts that are not dually-connected to the network element if the source of the packet is the local host and the link is a core link; and forwarding the packet as indicated in a multicast tree if the source of the packet is a non-local host and the link is a core link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Vipin Jain, Ashutosh Agrawal, Deepa Seshadri