Patents by Inventor Hongchi Shih

Hongchi Shih 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 managing network devices using a parsable string that conforms to a specified grammar
    Patent number: 7054926
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing network devices using a parsable string that conforms to a specified grammar. The parsable string is used to represent locations of entities and is called an entity location specifier. The grammar may conform to Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF). The entity location specifier comprises one or more location elements taken from a superset of location elements needed to specify the locations of entities for network device platforms. The superset of location elements can include both physical and logical entities. As a result, a network management application can retrieve a description of entities and elements contained in a network device using a single request, and can receive a single string value that is parsable to identify individual entities or elements in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vasmi M. Abidi, Hongchi Shih, Keith McCloghrie