Patents by Inventor Ian COWBURN

Ian COWBURN 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).

  • ACTIVE/STANDBY PW REDUNDANCY FOR EPIPES
    Publication number: 20150244564
    Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a backbone network for performing switchover of plurality of pseudo-wires (PWs) connecting a customer edge device to a primary backbone edge bridge (BEB), the method including: designating one of the plurality of PWs as a control PW; associating the remaining PWs with the control PW; associating a virtual backbone MAC (B-MAC) address with the control PW; and advertising, by the primary BEB, the virtual B-MAC address to the backbone network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: ALCATEL-LUCENT
    Inventors: Ian COWBURN, Shafiq PIRBHAI, David MOTZ