Patents by Inventor Glenn Wenig

Glenn Wenig 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).

  • Address resolution protocol operation in a fibre channel fabric
    Patent number: 10693832
    Abstract: A network where FC and Ethernet storage traffic share the network. The network extends FC SAN storage attributes to Ethernet storage devices. The network is preferably formed of FC switches, so each edge switch acts as an FCoE FCF, with internal communications done using FC. IP packets are encapsulated in FC packets for transport. Preferably, either each outward facing switch port can be configured as an Ethernet or FC port, so devices can be connected as desired. Ethernet addresses of IP devices are discovered based on ARP requests and lookup misses. Once an ARP request is trapped, the source device's information is added to a local database and distributed within the network. If the destination device is not known, a network-specific fabric protocol is used to propagate the ARP request to the other switches. An ARP response is processed similarly to update the local database and to distribute the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
    Inventors: Glenn Wenig, Daniel Chung, Jesse Willeke
  • FCoE VNport virtualizer
    Patent number: 9397958
    Abstract: An FCoE VN_Port virtualizer where VF_Ports are used to connect downstream to host and target VN_Ports and a VN_Port is used to connect upstream to further FCoE VN_Port virtualizers or to an FCF. An alternate embodiment uses an Ethernet Fabric for an additional purpose. The Ethernet Fabric devices all act as FCoE VN_Port virtualizers, so that the Ethernet Fabric itself is considered a virtual FCoE VN_Port virtualizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Wenig, Howard Johnson, Daniel Chung, Dave Peterson
  • FCoE VNport to FC Nport operations in an ethernet fabric
    Patent number: 9379976
    Abstract: Ethernet Fabric devices all act as FCoE to FC gateways, so that the Ethernet Fabric itself is considered a virtual FCoE to FC gateway. Further, the Ethernet Fabric allows direct routing of FCoE packets from one FCoE device coupled to the Ethernet Fabric to another FCoE device coupled to the Ethernet Fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Johnson, Daniel Chung, Glenn Wenig, Dave Peterson
  • FCoE VN_Port Virtualizer
    Publication number: 20140301402
    Abstract: An FCoE VN_Port virtualizer where VF_Ports are used to connect downstream to host and target VN_Ports and a VN_Port is used to connect upstream to further FCoE VN_Port virtualizers or to an FCF. An alternate embodiment uses an Ethernet Fabric for an additional purpose. The Ethernet Fabric devices all act as FCoE VN_Port virtualizers, so that the Ethernet Fabric itself is considered a virtual FCoE VN_Port virtualizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Wenig, Howard Johnson, Daniel Chung, Dave Peterson
  • FCoE VN_Port to FC N_Port Operations in an Ethernet Fabric
    Publication number: 20140269745
    Abstract: Ethernet Fabric devices all act as FCoE to FC gateways, so that the Ethernet Fabric itself is considered a virtual FCoE to FC gateway. Further, the Ethernet Fabric allows direct routing of FCoE packets from one FCoE device coupled to the Ethernet Fabric to another FCoE device coupled to the Ethernet Fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Johnson, Daniel Chung, Glenn Wenig, Dave Peterson