Patents by Inventor Faruq T. Rahman

Faruq T. Rahman 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).

  • Distributed routing core
    Patent number: 7240123
    Abstract: A routing device for forwarding data packets in a communication system includes a set of routing processors at least one interface that receives and transmits data packets and a routing table manager that maintains a forwarding table of routes provided by the set of routing processors. Each routing processor is associated with a routing protocol that determines a set of routes. The routing device may also include a set of fast forward engines that forward a data packet based on the forwarding table. The routing table manager may be implemented on a separate processor than each routing processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Ameel M. Kamboh, Faruq T. Rahman, Raghavendran Venkatraman
  • Distributed routing core
    Publication number: 20030110289
    Abstract: A routing device for forwarding data packets in a communication system includes a set of routing processors at least one interface that receives and transmits data packets and a routing table manager that maintains a forwarding table of routes provided by the set of routing processors. Each routing processor is associated with a routing protocol that determines a set of routes. The routing device may also include a set of fast forward engines that forward a data packet based on the forwarding table. The routing table manager may be implemented on a separate processor than each routing processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Ameel M. Kamboh, Faruq T. Rahman, Raghavendran Venkatraman