Patents by Inventor Harshad Prabhu

Harshad Prabhu 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).

  • Autonomous datacenter management plane
    Patent number: 11012306
    Abstract: Presented herein are methodologies for managing servers in a datacenter or cloud service environment. A method includes sending, from a first baseboard management controller (BMC), to other BMCs in a network, a first message indicating a desire to establish a master-slave relationship; receiving a response from a second BMC from among the other BMCs, the response indicating an ability to function as a master in the master-slave relationship; sending, from the first BMC, a second message to the second BMC confirming establishment of the master-slave relationship between the second BMC and the first BMC; sending, from the first BMC to the second BMC, a request for configuration information; and in response to the request for configuration information, receiving, from the second BMC, configuration profile data representative of a configuration of a server, which is controlled by the second BMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Sayantan Bhattacharyya, SriSai Ganesh V Venkatramani, Yogindar Das Yasodhar, Harshad Prabhu
  • AUTONOMOUS DATACENTER MANAGEMENT PLANE
    Publication number: 20200099584
    Abstract: Presented herein are methodologies for managing servers in a datacenter or cloud service environment. A method includes sending, from a first baseboard management controller (BMC), to other BMCs in a network, a first message indicating a desire to establish a master-slave relationship; receiving a response from a second BMC from among the other BMCs, the response indicating an ability to function as a master in the master-slave relationship; sending, from the first BMC, a second message to the second BMC confirming establishment of the master-slave relationship between the second BMC and the first BMC; sending, from the first BMC to the second BMC, a request for configuration information; and in response to the request for configuration information, receiving, from the second BMC, configuration profile data representative of a configuration of a server, which is controlled by the second BMC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Sayantan Bhattacharyya, SriSai Ganesh V Venkatramani, Yogindar Das Yasodhar, Harshad Prabhu