Patents by Inventor Eric Robert Keller

Eric Robert Keller 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to migrate border gateway protocol sessions between routers
    Patent number: 8806032
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to migrate border gateway protocol sessions between routers are disclosed. An example method to migrate a border gateway protocol session from a first router to a second router disclosed herein comprises exporting a connection state to migrate a transport control protocol connection supporting the border gateway protocol session with a session endpoint from the first router to the second router, and after the transport control protocol connection has been migrated to the second router, announcing, from the first router to the second router, routes contained in an exported routing information base associated with the session endpoint, the second router to process the routes to migrate handling of the border gateway protocol session with the session endpoint to the second router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jacobus Van der Merwe, Jennifer Rexford, Eric Robert Keller
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MIGRATE BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL SESSIONS BETWEEN ROUTERS
    Publication number: 20120158976
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to migrate border gateway protocol sessions between routers are disclosed. An example method to migrate a border gateway protocol session from a first router to a second router disclosed herein comprises exporting a connection state to migrate a transport control protocol connection supporting the border gateway protocol session with a session endpoint from the first router to the second router, and after the transport control protocol connection has been migrated to the second router, announcing, from the first router to the second router, routes contained in an exported routing information base associated with the session endpoint, the second router to process the routes to migrate handling of the border gateway protocol session with the session endpoint to the second router.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Jacobus Van der Merwe, Jennifer Rexford, Eric Robert Keller