Patents by Inventor Edward Peter HARRISON

Edward Peter HARRISON 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).

  • Data center networks
    Patent number: 9813302
    Abstract: Measures, including systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums, for use in operating a data center network, the data center network including an interconnect fabric including a plurality of spine switches, a plurality of top-of-rack switches and a plurality of compute servers. The interconnect fabric is configured to implement a plurality of independent spine switch planes. Each spine switch plane in the plurality of independent spine switch planes includes a different spine switch in the plurality of spine switches. The configuring includes configuring Layer 2 networking within each independent spine switch plane in the plurality of independent spine switch planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Tigera, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Curtis, Christopher Liljenstolpe, Alex Pollitt, Matthew Gerard Horatio Dupre, Edward Peter Harrison
  • DATA CENTER NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20170063631
    Abstract: Measures, including systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums, for use in operating a data center network, the data center network including an interconnect fabric including a plurality of spine switches, a plurality of top-of-rack switches and a plurality of compute servers. The interconnect fabric is configured to implement a plurality of independent spine switch planes. Each spine switch plane in the plurality of independent spine switch planes includes a different spine switch in the plurality of spine switches. The configuring includes configuring Layer 2 networking within each independent spine switch plane in the plurality of independent spine switch planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Michael CURTIS, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE, Alex POLLITT, Matthew Gerard Horatio DUPRE, Edward Peter HARRISON