Patents by Inventor Jason D. Brooks

Jason D. Brooks 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).

  • Network bridge uplink port identification
    Patent number: 7394773
    Abstract: An ICMP ping is sent from a test instrument to all known bridges and switches on a network, which respond by populating the forwarding data base (FDB) tables with the MAC addresses of adjacent bridges. Then an SNMP query is sent to the FDB table of a selected bridge, retrieving not only MAC addresses, but interface indices associated with ports of downstream bridges. These ports are identified as uplink ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventor: Jason D. Brooks