Patents by Inventor Guoll Yin

Guoll Yin 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).

  • Method and apparatus for layer 2 fast re-configuration in a routing bridge network
    Patent number: 8331360
    Abstract: A method and apparatus in provided which enables fast layer 2 reconfiguration in a network that includes Routing Bridges. Each Routing Bridge stores, for each forwarding target, identifiers of a primary next Rbridge and an alternate next Rbridge. The forwarding target may be a network end node, or an Egress Rbridge associated with the network end node. In response to a trigger condition, layer 2 communications are selectively switched from a path that includes the primary next Rbridge device to a path that includes the alternate next Rbridge device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LP
    Inventors: Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoll Yin, Ravi Ravindran