Patents by Inventor John Paul Rivers

John Paul Rivers 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).

  • Methods and systems for automatic generation of routing configuration files
    Patent number: 9331910
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automatically generating routing configuration files based on a network topology and a collection of routing configuration templates. Such automatically generated routing configuration files may be suitable for a network running one or more of the RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS and BGP routing protocols. The network topology may be specified in a graph description language, such as DOT, and/or a graph modeling language, such as GraphML. The routing configuration templates include certain routing protocol commands or sequence of commands that are frequently repeated in the configuration of a network device. Based on the network topology, the routing configuration templates are instantiated in a certain fashion, and any placeholders therein are replaced with information specific to the network topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: CUMULUS NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Dinesh Dutt, Pradosh Mohapatra, John Paul Rivers
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ROUTING CONFIGURATION FILES
    Publication number: 20140376402
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automatically generating routing configuration files based on a network topology and a collection of routing configuration templates. Such automatically generated routing configuration files may be suitable for a network running one or more of the RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS and BGP routing protocols. The network topology may be specified in a graph description language, such as DOT, and/or a graph modeling language, such as GraphML. The routing configuration templates include certain routing protocol commands or sequence of commands that are frequently repeated in the configuration of a network device. Based on the network topology, the routing configuration templates are instantiated in a certain fashion, and any placeholders therein are replaced with information specific to the network topology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Dinesh Dutt, Pradosh Mohapatra, John Paul Rivers