Patents by Inventor Ian Wells
Ian Wells 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).
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Publication number: 20240121300Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11939060Abstract: A lift nacelle may comprise an airflow generator; a sidewall system coupled to the airflow generator and spanning in a first direction, wherein the sidewall system defines a nacelle interior space, wherein the airflow generator defines one of a forward boundary or an aft boundary of the nacelle interior space; and a lift body disposed in the nacelle interior space and spanning substantially perpendicular to the first direction and substantially perpendicular to an upward lift direction. The airflow generator may be configured to accelerate airflow in an aft direction into the nacelle interior space through the forward boundary of the nacelle interior space. The airflow may contact and/or interact with the lift body creating lift in response.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Copperhead Aeronautics, LLCInventors: Phillip Greenberg, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11928514Abstract: A method includes receiving a DNS request, notifying a serverless orchestrator system of data associated with the DNS request, provisioning a function on a serverless function node based on the DNS request, notifying a load balancer regarding the serverless function node, providing a response to the DNS request and routing an API request associated with the DNS request to the serverless function node.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells, David Delano Ward
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Patent number: 11882184Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11811655Abstract: A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yichen Wang, Ian Wells, Vasudevan Mahalingam
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Patent number: 11714672Abstract: A system is provided that includes one management cluster to manage network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) resources lifecycle in more than one edge POD locations, where resources include hardware and/or software, and where software resources lifecycle includes software development, upgrades, downgrades, logging, monitoring etc. Methods are provided for decoupling storage from compute and network functions in each virtual machine (VM)-based NFVI deployment location and moving it to a centralized location. Centralized storage could simultaneously interact with more than one edge PODs, and the security is built-in with periodic key rotation. Methods are provided for increasing NFVI system viability by dedicating (fencing) CPU core pairs for specific controller operations and workload operations, and sharing the CPU cores for specific tasks.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Santanu Dasgupta, Chandragupta Ganguly, Ian Wells, Rajiv Asati, Om Prakash Suthar, Vinod Pandarinathan, Ajay Kalambur, Yichen Wang, John Wei-I Wu
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Publication number: 20230137181Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11558462Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Publication number: 20220417145Abstract: A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Yichen Wang, Ian Wells, Vasudevan Mahalingam
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Publication number: 20220402592Abstract: A lift nacelle may comprise an airflow generator; a sidewall system coupled to the airflow generator and spanning in a first direction, wherein the sidewall system defines a nacelle interior space, wherein the airflow generator defines one of a forward boundary or an aft boundary of the nacelle interior space; and a lift body disposed in the nacelle interior space and spanning substantially perpendicular to the first direction and substantially perpendicular to an upward lift direction. The airflow generator may be configured to accelerate airflow in an aft direction into the nacelle interior space through the forward boundary of the nacelle interior space. The airflow may contact and/or interact with the lift body creating lift in response.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: COPPERHEAD AERONAUTICSInventors: Phillip Greenberg, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11469997Abstract: A network management method includes a controller receiving an underlay network identifier and a network segment identifier. The underlay network identifier and network segment identifier can be associated with entries in a forwarding information base and border gateway protocol speakers may be deployed in association with the entries. A virtual network can be associated with the underlay network and network traffic can be forwarded to the virtual network according to the entries.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yichen Wang, Ian Wells, Vasudevan Mahalingam
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Patent number: 11427300Abstract: A lift nacelle may comprise an airflow generator; a sidewall system coupled to the airflow generator and spanning in a first direction, wherein the sidewall system defines a nacelle interior space, wherein the airflow generator defines one of a forward boundary or an aft boundary of the nacelle interior space; and a lift body disposed in the nacelle interior space and spanning substantially perpendicular to the first direction and substantially perpendicular to an upward lift direction. The airflow generator may be configured to accelerate airflow in an aft direction into the nacelle interior space through the forward boundary of the nacelle interior space. The airflow may contact and/or interact with the lift body creating lift in response.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Copperhead Aeronautics, LLCInventors: Phillip Greenberg, Ian Wells
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Publication number: 20220247819Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Publication number: 20220222102Abstract: A system is provided that includes one management cluster to manage network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) resources lifecycle in more than one edge POD locations, where resources include hardware and/or software, and where software resources lifecycle includes software development, upgrades, downgrades, logging, monitoring etc. Methods are provided for decoupling storage from compute and network functions in each virtual machine (VM)-based NFVI deployment location and moving it to a centralized location. Centralized storage could simultaneously interact with more than one edge PODs, and the security is built-in with periodic key rotation. Methods are provided for increasing NFVI system viability by dedicating (fencing) CPU core pairs for specific controller operations and workload operations, and sharing the CPU cores for specific tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Santanu Dasgupta, Chandragupta Ganguly, Ian Wells, Rajiv Asati, Om Prakash Suthar, Vinod Pandarinathan, Ajay Kalambur, Yichen Wang, John Wei-I Wu
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Patent number: 11323516Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Publication number: 20220030065Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11210126Abstract: A system is provided that includes one management cluster to manage network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) resources lifecycle in more than one edge POD locations, where resources include hardware and/or software, and where software resources lifecycle includes software development, upgrades, downgrades, logging, monitoring etc. Methods are provided for decoupling storage from compute and network functions in each virtual machine (VM)-based NFVI deployment location and moving it to a centralized location. Centralized storage could simultaneously interact with more than one edge PODs, and the security is built-in with periodic key rotation. Methods are provided for increasing NFVI system viability by dedicating (fencing) CPU core pairs for specific controller operations and workload operations, and sharing the CPU cores for specific tasks.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Santanu Dasgupta, Chandragupta Ganguly, Ian Wells, Rajiv Asati, Om Prakash Suthar, Vinod Pandarinathan, Ajay Kalambur, Yichen Wang, John Wei-I Wu
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Patent number: 11075985Abstract: A system is provided to support a serverless environment and quickly generate containers to handle requests. The system includes a first network node, a container orchestration system, and a serving node. The first network node receives an initial packet of a request from a host and sends a notification to a container orchestration system. The notification includes header information from the initial packet and signals the reception of the initial packet of the request. The container orchestration system creates one or more new containers in response to the notification based on the header information of the initial packet. The serving node instantiates the new containers, receives the request from the host, and processes the request from the host with the new containers.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Kyle Mestery, Ian Wells
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Patent number: 11075857Abstract: Techniques are described to provide a peephole optimization for processing traffic for lightweight protocols at lower layers by executing them inside a virtual switch rather than using the network stack of a host node. In one example, a method includes determining by forwarding logic of a virtual switch that a received packet is associated with a query for one of domain information or address information. Based on such a determination, the virtual switch determines whether the query is contained within a single Ethernet frame and is answerable. Based on a positive determination for both, the virtual switch determines whether a response to the query can be transmitted in a single packet within a single Ethernet frame. Based on a positive determination of a single packet response, a response packet for the query is formed and injected into the forwarding logic for the virtual switch for transmitting to a destination.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Kyle Mestery, Ian Wells, David Delano Ward
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Patent number: 11070621Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for reusing execution environments and code of serverless functions while ensuring isolation in serverless computing environments. In some examples, a method can include, in response to a first request to run a serverless function, executing, at an execution environment on a network, computer-readable code configured to perform the serverless function; after the computer-readable code has executed, modifying a pointer to an area of memory used to store a first state of the serverless function to reference a different area of memory; in response to a second request to run the serverless function, reusing, at the execution environment, the computer-readable code to perform the serverless function; and based on the pointer referencing the different area of memory, using the different area of memory to store a second state of the serverless function.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Dominik Rene Tornow, Urmil Vijay Dave, Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian Wells