Patents by Inventor James E. Sutherland

James E. Sutherland 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).

  • Publication number: 20210266376
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intent-based disaggregated and distributed composable infrastructure. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, over a network, a request for network services from a customer, the request comprising desired characteristics and performance parameters, without specific information regarding any of hardware, hardware type, location, or network for providing the requested services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, James E. Sutherland, Frank Moss, Brent Smith, Charles Stallings, Mitch Mollard, William O'Brien, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210266236
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intent-based multi-tiered orchestration and automation. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request for network services that comprises desired characteristics and performance parameters for the requested network services without information regarding specific hardware, hardware type, location, or network, a macro orchestrator might send, to a micro orchestrator among a plurality of micro orchestrators, the received request for network services, where the macro orchestrator automates, manages, or controls each of the plurality of micro orchestrators, while each micro orchestrator automates, manages, or controls a plurality of domain managers and/or a plurality of network resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Brett E. Dwyer, Kevin M. McBride, James E. Sutherland, Jamie Lin, Brent Smith, Glenn B. Balanoff, Frank Moss, Bryan Dreyer
  • Publication number: 20210211436
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a telemetry hub, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a telemetry hub that obtains sensor data from a plurality of sources and that determines one or more first actions to take in response to receiving the first sensor data. In operation, a telemetry hub might receive first sensor data from one or more sensors. The telemetry hub may determine whether the first sensor data can be trusted and whether the first sensor data is valid. Based on a determination that the first sensor data can be trusted and is valid, the telemetry hub might analyze the first sensor data to determine one or more first actions to take. The telemetry hub might then implement the one or more first actions based at least in part on the analysis of the first sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, Steven M. Casey, Stephen Opferman, Hunter Rudd, James E. Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20200250175
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing tracking or storing of equipment configuration data using immutable ledger functionality of blockchains. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a first request for first configuration data that is output by first equipment, a computing system might determine whether a communicatively coupled data repository contains the first configuration data. If so, the computing system might retrieve and send (to the requesting device) the first configuration data. If not, the computing system might send, to a blockchain system, a second request for identifying a blockchain containing a block containing the first configuration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, Hunter Rudd, James E. Sutherland, Steven M. Casey