Patents by Inventor John Thomas Monk

John Thomas Monk 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).

  • Patent number: 11824728
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for emulating a state of a network environment for purposes of re-executing a network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment. In some embodiments, a method can include receiving snapshot data for a network environment corresponding to a specific time in the network environment and including network events occurring in the network environment generated by a network assurance appliance. A state of the network environment at the specific time can be emulated using the snapshot data to create an emulated state of the network environment. Subsequently, the network assurance appliance can be re-executed in the emulated state of the network environment corresponding to the specific time and the network assurance appliance can be debugged outside of the network environment based on re-execution of the network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Divjyot Sethi, Chandra Nagarajan, Advait Dixit, John Thomas Monk, Gabriel Cheukbun Ng, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Patent number: 11736351
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to determine a hit count for a concrete level rule implemented on a node and identify one or more components of a logical model, wherein each of the one or more components are associated with the concrete level rule. The network assurance appliance may attribute the hit count for the concrete level rule to each of the components of the logical model, determine a number of hardware level entries associated with the each of the one or more components, and generate a report comprising the one or more components of the logical model, the hit count attributed to each of the one or more components of the logical model, and the number of hardware level entries associated with the one or more components of the logical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Publication number: 20230236912
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fault code aggregation across application-centric dimensions. In an example embodiment, a system obtains respective fault codes corresponding to one or more network devices in a network and maps the one or more network devices and/or the respective fault codes to respective logical policy entities defined in a logical policy model of the network, to yield fault code mappings. The system aggregates the one or more of the fault code mappings along respective logical policy dimensions in the network to yield an aggregation of fault codes across respective logical policy dimensions and, based on the aggregation, presents, for each of the respective logical policy dimensions, one or more hardware-level errors along the respective logical policy dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: John Thomas Monk, Kartik Mohanram, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Patent number: 11645131
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fault code aggregation across application-centric dimensions. In an example embodiment, a system obtains respective fault codes corresponding to one or more network devices in a network and maps the one or more network devices and/or the respective fault codes to respective logical policy entities defined in a logical policy model of the network, to yield fault code mappings. The system aggregates the one or more of the fault code mappings along respective logical policy dimensions in the network to yield an aggregation of fault codes across respective logical policy dimensions and, based on the aggregation, presents, for each of the respective logical policy dimensions, one or more hardware-level errors along the respective logical policy dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Thomas Monk, Kartik Mohanram, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Patent number: 11558260
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to query a node in the network fabric for a number of hardware level entries, stored in memory for the node, that are associated with a concrete level network rule. The network assurance appliance may identify a logical level network intent associated with the concrete level network rule, identify a logical level component of the logical level network intent, and attribute the number of hardware level entries to the logical level component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Patent number: 11469952
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to obtain reference concrete level rules for a node in the network, obtain implemented concrete level rules for the node from the node in the network, compare the reference concrete level rules with the implemented concrete level rules, and determining that the implemented concrete level rules are not appropriately configured based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Publication number: 20220166673
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to determine a hit count for a concrete level rule implemented on a node and identify one or more components of a logical model, wherein each of the one or more components are associated with the concrete level rule. The network assurance appliance may attribute the hit count for the concrete level rule to each of the components of the logical model, determine a number of hardware level entries associated with the each of the one or more components, and generate a report comprising the one or more components of the logical model, the hit count attributed to each of the one or more components of the logical model, and the number of hardware level entries associated with the one or more components of the logical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Patent number: 11283680
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to determine a hit count for a concrete level rule implemented on a node and identify one or more components of a logical model, wherein each of the one or more components are associated with the concrete level rule. The network assurance appliance may attribute the hit count for the concrete level rule to each of the components of the logical model, determine a number of hardware level entries associated with the each of the one or more components, and generate a report comprising the one or more components of the logical model, the hit count attributed to each of the one or more components of the logical model, and the number of hardware level entries associated with the one or more components of the logical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Publication number: 20210092023
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for emulating a state of a network environment for purposes of re-executing a network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment. In some embodiments, a method can include receiving snapshot data for a network environment corresponding to a specific time in the network environment and including network events occurring in the network environment generated by a network assurance appliance. A state of the network environment at the specific time can be emulated using the snapshot data to create an emulated state of the network environment. Subsequently, the network assurance appliance can be re-executed in the emulated state of the network environment corresponding to the specific time and the network assurance appliance can be debugged outside of the network environment based on re-execution of the network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Divjyot Sethi, Chandra Nagarajan, Advait Dixit, John Thomas Monk, Gabriel Cheukbun Ng, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Patent number: 10873509
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for emulating a state of a network environment for purposes of re-executing a network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment. In some embodiments, a method can include receiving snapshot data for a network environment corresponding to a specific time in the network environment and including network events occurring in the network environment generated by a network assurance appliance. A state of the network environment at the specific time can be emulated using the snapshot data to create an emulated state of the network environment. Subsequently, the network assurance appliance can be re-executed in the emulated state of the network environment corresponding to the specific time and the network assurance appliance can be debugged outside of the network environment based on re-execution of the network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Divjyot Sethi, Chandra Nagarajan, Advait Dixit, John Thomas Monk, Gabriel Cheukbun Ng, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Publication number: 20200252297
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to query a node in the network fabric for a number of hardware level entries, stored in memory for the node, that are associated with a concrete level network rule. The network assurance appliance may identify a logical level network intent associated with the concrete level network rule, identify a logical level component of the logical level network intent, and attribute the number of hardware level entries to the logical level component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Publication number: 20200177456
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to obtain reference concrete level rules for a node in the network, obtain implemented concrete level rules for the node from the node in the network, compare the reference concrete level rules with the implemented concrete level rules, and determining that the implemented concrete level rules are not appropriately configured based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Patent number: 10652102
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to query a node in the network fabric for a number of hardware level entries, stored in memory for the node, that are associated with a concrete level network rule. The network assurance appliance may identify a logical level network intent associated with the concrete level network rule, identify a logical level component of the logical level network intent, and attribute the number of hardware level entries to the logical level component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Patent number: 10554493
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to obtain reference concrete level rules for a node in the network, obtain implemented concrete level rules for the node from the node in the network, compare the reference concrete level rules with the implemented concrete level rules, and determining that the implemented concrete level rules are not appropriately configured based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Patent number: 10554477
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for aggregating and presenting network events in a network environment. In some embodiments, a system can maintain event correlation rules for aggregating \network events occurring in a network based on characteristics of previously occurring network events. Network events occurring in the specific network environment can be identified. The network events can be aggregated to form an aggregated network event using the event correlation rules maintained based on the characteristics of previously occurring network events. The aggregated network event can subsequently be presented to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Shadab Nazar, Navneet Yadav, Azeem Suleman, Pavan Mamillapalli, John Thomas Monk, Chetan Narsude, Navjyoti Sharma, Gaurav Gupta
  • Publication number: 20190222485
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for emulating a state of a network environment for purposes of re-executing a network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment. In some embodiments, a method can include receiving snapshot data for a network environment corresponding to a specific time in the network environment and including network events occurring in the network environment generated by a network assurance appliance. A state of the network environment at the specific time can be emulated using the snapshot data to create an emulated state of the network environment. Subsequently, the network assurance appliance can be re-executed in the emulated state of the network environment corresponding to the specific time and the network assurance appliance can be debugged outside of the network environment based on re-execution of the network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Divjyot Sethi, Chandra Nagarajan, Advait Dixit, John Thomas Monk, Gabriel Cheukbun Ng, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Publication number: 20190081850
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for aggregating and presenting network events in a network environment. In some embodiments, a system can maintain event correlation rules for aggregating \network events occurring in a network based on characteristics of previously occurring network events. Network events occurring in the specific network environment can be identified. The network events can be aggregated to form an aggregated network event using the event correlation rules maintained based on the characteristics of previously occurring network events. The aggregated network event can subsequently be presented to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Shadab Nazar, Navneet Yadav, Azeem Suleman, Pavan Mamillapalli, John Thomas Monk, Chetan Narsude, Navjyoti Sharma, Gaurav Gupta
  • Publication number: 20180365095
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fault code aggregation across application-centric dimensions. In an example embodiment, a system obtains respective fault codes corresponding to one or more network devices in a network and maps the one or more network devices and/or the respective fault codes to respective logical policy entities defined in a logical policy model of the network, to yield fault code mappings. The system aggregates the one or more of the fault code mappings along respective logical policy dimensions in the network to yield an aggregation of fault codes across respective logical policy dimensions and, based on the aggregation, presents, for each of the respective logical policy dimensions, one or more hardware-level errors along the respective logical policy dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: John Thomas Monk, Kartik Mohanram, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sundar Iyer
  • Publication number: 20180367413
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to query a node in the network fabric for a number of hardware level entries, stored in memory for the node, that are associated with a concrete level network rule. The network assurance appliance may identify a logical level network intent associated with the concrete level network rule, identify a logical level component of the logical level network intent, and attribute the number of hardware level entries to the logical level component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala
  • Publication number: 20180367387
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media analyzing memory usage in a network node. A network assurance appliance may be configured to determine a hit count for a concrete level rule implemented on a node and identify one or more components of a logical model, wherein each of the one or more components are associated with the concrete level rule. The network assurance appliance may attribute the hit count for the concrete level rule to each of the components of the logical model, determine a number of hardware level entries associated with the each of the one or more components, and generate a report comprising the one or more components of the logical model, the hit count attributed to each of the one or more components of the logical model, and the number of hardware level entries associated with the one or more components of the logical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ramana Rao Kompella, Chandra Nagarajan, John Thomas Monk, Purna Mani Kumar Ghantasala