Patents by Inventor Jerome A. Henry

Jerome A. Henry 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: 20240091047
    Abstract: A connector product comprises a conduit connected to a device, a connector for connecting the conduit to a device, and a device having a port for connection to a conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: James P. Wines, Jerome A. Henry, Patrick Boland, Paul Healy, Damien Biggins, Paul F. Fox, Mark Chambers
  • Publication number: 20240098454
    Abstract: A managed network supporting backscattering communication devices may be provided. A computing device may determine a plurality of locations respectively associated with a plurality of devices in a preterminal space. At least one of the plurality of devices may be power with energy transmitted from at least one Access Point (AP) to the least one of the plurality of devices at its location. Data may be received from the at least one of the plurality of devices in response to powering the at least one of the plurality of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Amine Choukir, Domenico Ficara, Pascal Thubert, Leo Caldarola, Mathieu Monney, Arun G. Khanna, Jerome Henry
  • Publication number: 20240097814
    Abstract: Optimal coding scheme parameters may be provided. Information associated with a plurality of client devices may be received by a computing device. A map of locations of the plurality of client devices relative to an Access Point (AP) may be created based on the information. A connected dominating set of client devices within the plurality of client devices may be identified based on the map. A first client device in the connected dominating set may then be caused to relay data between the AP and a second client device comprising a client device in the plurality of client devices that is dominated by the first client device in the connected dominating set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Domenico Ficara, Amine Choukir, Jerome Henry, Arun G. Khanna
  • Patent number: 11937316
    Abstract: Multi-link selection based on Transmit Power Control (TPC) may be provided. A computing device may receive Multi-Link Device (MLD) association information associated with a client device. The MLD association information may describe MLD links the client device may require. A set of MLD links available on a network may be determined based on the MLD association information. The determined set of MLD links may then be sent to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Peter Ecclesine, Jerome Henry
  • Publication number: 20240089731
    Abstract: Rotation of a wireless client device address is based on an encryption key and a nonce value. Key information and nonce value information are shared between a wireless client device and a network infrastructure component over a secure communication channel. The wireless client device encrypts the nonce value using the key information and encodes the encrypted value as a device address. The wireless client device then identifies itself via a source address value in a message transmitted over a wireless network. Upon receiving the message, the network infrastructure component decrypts information derived from the source address value and compares the resulting data to the nonce value. If a match is identified, the network infrastructure identifies the wireless client device as a source of the message. In some embodiments, the nonce value is updated with each rotation to provide for improved entropy of generated device addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Stephen Michael Orr, Robert E. Barton
  • Publication number: 20240090032
    Abstract: Preemption in wireless may be provided. Access Category (AC) parameters may be received for a preemption AC within a plurality of ACs. The preemption AC parameters may comprise a Contention Window maximum (CWmax) comprising a first predetermined value and a preemption Arbitrary Interframe Space Number (AIFSN) of less than or equal to a second predetermined value. AC parameters for others of the plurality of ACs may be received wherein a non-preemption AIFSN associated with any of the others of the plurality of ACs is greater than a sum of the first predetermined value the second predetermined value. Preemption for traffic in the preemption AC may be allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Hart, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Malcolm Muir Smith, Jerome Henry
  • Publication number: 20240089737
    Abstract: Federated multi-access edge computing availability notifications may be provided by: transmitting, from a User Equipment (UE) to a node of a wireless network of a federated service, an attach request for the wireless network that includes authentication credentials for an independent identity provider in an identity federation, wherein the independent identity provider is external and independent from the wireless network and used to authenticate the UE to the wireless network; forwarding, from the node to the independent identity provider, the authentication credentials; transmitting, from the independent identity provider to the node, an authentication success message; receiving, at the UE via the node, the authentication success message; transmitting, from the UE to the node, a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) query; and receiving, at the UE from the node, a MEC response that identifies MEC resources that are available to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nagendra Kumar NAINAR, Robert E. BARTON, Carlos M. PIGNATARO, Jerome HENRY
  • Publication number: 20240080297
    Abstract: A method is provided that is performed for a wireless network that includes one or more wireless client devices that may rotate their media access control (MAC) address used for wireless communication with one or more wireless access point devices in the wireless network. The method includes determining an impact of MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices on operational resources of one or more networking devices or networking processes in a network infrastructure associated with the wireless network. The method further includes scheduling MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices according to the impact on operational resources of the one or more networking devices or networking processes in the network infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Edgar Barton, Jerome Henry, Stephen Michael Orr
  • Publication number: 20240080757
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques associated with providing an alternative network indication to a client device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) roaming federation. In one example a method is provided that may include obtaining access network information for each of a plurality of access networks that neighbor a first access network through connection of a client device with the first access network involving a first identity provider profile; determining an alternative access network with which the client device is recommended to seek connection or an alternative identity provider profiles with which the client device is recommended to connect to the first access network; and enabling the client device to initiate a connection with the alternative access network or to re-initiate a connection with the first access network utilizing the alternative identity provider profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry
  • Patent number: 11924857
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises first causing, by a controller device, wireless access points (APs) to allocate first non-interfering wireless channels for a prescribed reliable data service for wireless client devices in a WLAN; second causing the wireless APs to allocate a second shared channel having a bandwidth that is greater than the corresponding bandwidth of any of the first non-interfering wireless channels; allocating for each wireless client device a corresponding location service interval on the second shared channel for transmission of at least a corresponding identifiable wireless data unit for locating the corresponding wireless client device between two or more of the wireless APs; and determining a location of at least one of the wireless client devices based on reception of at least the corresponding wireless data unit between the one wireless client device and the two or more wireless APs during the corresponding location service interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Aaron Silverman, Ardalan Alizadeh, Pooya Monajemi, Jerome Henry
  • Patent number: 11924190
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a method and associated network device. The method includes authenticating an identity of a user of a client device after the client device is associated with an access network provider. Authenticating the identity of the user comprises receiving, from an identity provider, a credential associated with the identity, and receiving, from the identity provider, information identifying a network-based service to be applied to network traffic with the client device. The method further includes establishing, using the credential and the received information, a secure connection between the access network provider and a service provider that is capable of providing the network-based service. The method further includes receiving network traffic from the service provider. Packets of the network traffic include an assurance value that enables the client device to determine that the network-based service is being provided by the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Robert E. Barton, Carlos M. Pignataro, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman
  • Patent number: 11923937
    Abstract: Spurious beamforming in high density environments can be reduced via transmitting a first signal from a first Access Point (AP) to a first endpoint associated with the first AP via a first beamforming arrangement; in response to identifying that the first beamforming arrangement is pollutive to a second endpoint associated with a second AP: deprecating the first beamforming arrangement; and transmitting a second signal from the first AP to the first endpoint via a second beamforming arrangement, different from the first beamforming arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Matthew A. Silverman, Pooya Monajemi
  • Publication number: 20240073248
    Abstract: A method and system for implementing security policies for a user device based on one or more user device parameters. When a user device joins a domain, the security policy agent determines one or more security policies for the user device based on one or more parameters of the user device. The user parameters may include the type of user device, a user group, an application to be used, etc. The security polies are sent to the user device. The user device generates a data packet having metadata indicating the one or more device parameters. The data packet is sent to a remote security service where security policies are implemented based on the metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Edgar Barton, Jerome Henry, Indermeet Gandhi
  • Publication number: 20240069141
    Abstract: Cluster formation for networks for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Time-Difference-of-Arrival (TDoA) networks may be provided. A plurality of anchors may be set to a primary setting. Synchronization messages may then be broadcast by the plurality of anchors. Then the plurality of anchors may send responses to the synchronization messages. A room consensus may be performed to determine probabilities of obstacles between the plurality of anchors. The plurality of anchors may then send proposals of one or more clusters based on the room consensus. One or more clusters may be formed by the plurality of anchors based on the proposals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Indermeet Singh Gandhi
  • Publication number: 20240073146
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains transaction data regarding a transaction attempted by a client of an online application within the online application. The transaction data is captured by instrumentation code inserted into the online application at runtime. The device identifies, based on the transaction data, traffic in a network associated with the transaction. The device associates, based on the transaction data, a measure of importance with the traffic. The device causes the traffic to be sent by a networking device in the network according to its associated measure of importance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Szigeti, Robert E. BARTON, Jerome HENRY, David John ZACKS, Walter Theodore HULICK, JR., Nagendra Kumar NAINAR
  • Publication number: 20240064535
    Abstract: Wireless infrastructure upgrading may be provided. An Access Point (AP) may be caused to decline new association requests received from client devices not associated with the AP. Next, the AP may be caused to instruct client devices associated with the AP that detect a signal level from the AP to be below their roaming margin to roam away from the AP. Then the power of the signal level from the AP may be decreased by a predetermined amount. Causing the AP to instruct client devices associated with the AP that detect the signal level from the AP to be below their roaming margin to roam away from the AP and decreasing the power of the signal level from the AP may be repeated until the power of the signal level from the AP is at a predetermined level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinay Saini, Ankush Ganpatrai Arora, Midhun Kumar Gundavarapu, Jerome Henry
  • Publication number: 20240064788
    Abstract: Adapting transmission schedules in a Radio Frequency (RF) environment may be provided. A Central Network Controller (CNC) of a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) may determine that a data path to a client device comprises a wireless link. The CNC of the TSN may generate a proposed transmission schedule for the time sensitive traffic to the client device through the wireless link in response to determining that the data path to the client device comprises the wireless link. The CNC may provide the proposed transmission schedule to a Wireless Network Controller (WLC) of the wireless link. The CNC may receive a confirmation from the WLC that the proposed transmission schedule can be met. The proposed transmission schedule may be configured in response to receiving the confirmation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Barton, Jerome Henry, Maik Guenter Seewald, Malcolm Muir Smith
  • Publication number: 20240064609
    Abstract: Techniques for wireless communication are disclosed. These techniques include determining that a first wireless access point (AP) has a failure to connect to a controller. The techniques further include identifying one or more neighbor APs, for the first AP, as candidate rescue APs, selecting a rescue AP, from among the candidate rescue APs, and establishing a secure connection from the first AP to the rescue AP. The techniques further includes transmitting diagnostic data from the first AP to the controller using the secure connection from the first AP to the rescue AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Jerome HENRY, John M. SWARTZ, James F. FLORWICK, Domenico FICARA, Amine CHOUKIR, Arun G. KHANNA, Sachin D. WAKUDKAR
  • Patent number: 11910351
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media may determine location-related data for a plurality of access points located in an area in communication with a network by determining that a plurality of access points in a network are associated with a same geographical area including identifying, from among the plurality of access points, a first access point associated with the geographical area, determining first location-related data for the first access point, determining second location-related data for a second access point of the plurality of access points, the second access point being interior to the first access point within the network based at least in part on a determination that the second access point has at least a threshold number of the neighbor access points, and exchanging ranging data indicative of a first relative distance between the first access point and the second access point, the ranging data based at least in part on ranging message exchange measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Pooya Monajemi, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey, Jean-Philippe Marcel Vasseur
  • Patent number: 11909739
    Abstract: A method includes determining a corresponding level of a security model associated with each device of a plurality of devices connected to a network, each level of the security model having a corresponding tag; applying, to each of the plurality of devices, the corresponding tag based on the corresponding level of the security model with which each of the plurality of devices are associated; receiving, over a network connection, network traffic from at least one of the plurality of devices and the corresponding tag; analyzing the corresponding tag associated with the network traffic; determining a destination for the network traffic; applying one or more security measures to the network traffic based on the corresponding tag for the at least one device and a corresponding tag of the destination for the network traffic; and sending the network traffic to the destination with the corresponding tag of the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Elango Ganesan, Flemming Stig Andreasen