Patents by Inventor Jacob E. Woodhams

Jacob E. Woodhams 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).

  • CAPWAP/LWAPP multicast flood control for roaming clients
    Patent number: 7873020
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a system, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. The method includes maintaining the state of clients of an access point controlled by a controller in the controller of the access point, including multicast group information, and updating the access point with multicast group identification for the clients, such that the controller in combination with the access point can forward packets, and such that multicast group information for a roaming client of the access point is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Hunt, Jacob E. Woodhams, David M. Stiff, Sujit Ghosh, Joshua G. Broch
  • CAPWAP/LWAPP MULTICAST FLOOD CONTROL FOR ROAMING CLIENTS
    Publication number: 20090086689
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a system, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. The method includes maintaining the state of clients of an access point controlled by a controller in the controller of the access point, including multicast group information, and updating the access point with multicast group identification for the clients, such that the controller in combination with the access point can forward packets, and such that multicast group information for a roaming client of the access point is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: David Hunt, Jacob E. Woodhams, David M. Stiff, Sujit Ghosh, Joshua G. Broch