Patents by Inventor Jahanzeb Baqai

Jahanzeb Baqai 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).

  • Service Function Chaining using uSID in SRv6
    Patent number: 11968119
    Abstract: A node in a Segment Routing Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6) network includes circuitry configured to, for a packet destined to a Service Function Chain (SFC), encode one or more micro-Segment Identifiers (uSIDs) for the SFC, wherein at least one uSID of the one or more uSIDs includes an Endpoint Behavior field, responsive to the at least one uSID needing one or more Arguments, include the one or more Arguments after the Endpoint Behavior field, and transmit the packet towards the SFC. The present disclosure presents various techniques to utilize uSIDs for SFC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Ashwath Narasimhan, Muthurajah Sivabalan, Tao Wang, Jahanzeb Baqai
  • Service function chaining using uSID in SRv6
    Publication number: 20240129228
    Abstract: A node in a Segment Routing Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6) network includes circuitry configured to, for a packet destined to a Service Function Chain (SFC), encode one or more micro-Segment Identifiers (uSIDs) for the SFC, wherein at least one uSID of the one or more uSIDs includes an Endpoint Behavior field, responsive to the at least one uSID needing one or more Arguments, include the one or more Arguments after the Endpoint Behavior field, and transmit the packet towards the SFC. The present disclosure presents various techniques to utilize uSIDs for SFC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ashwath Narasimhan, Muthurajah Sivabalan, Tao Wang, Jahanzeb Baqai