Patents by Inventor Jon Addison

Jon Addison 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).

  • Financial information exchange (FIX) protocol based load balancing
    Patent number: 10296973
    Abstract: Methods and systems for efficiently allocating a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol based trading session/transaction a server by means of a load balancer are provided. According to one embodiment, a FIX packet of a FIX session is received at a load balancer fronting multiple servers of a high frequency trading (HFT) platform. A customer of the HFT platform is identified based on a SenderCompID field of the FIX packet. A customer weighting factor is determined based on a previously ascertained usage pattern of resources of the HFT platform by the customer. The customer is assigned to a server based on the weighting factor and a load of the selected server. A transport protocol flow associated with the FIX session is offloaded to a Network Processor (NP) Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Therefore, subsequent FIX packets of the FIX session are processed by the NP ASIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventor: Jon Addison
  • FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE (FIX) PROTOCOL BASED LOAD BALANCING
    Publication number: 20160027108
    Abstract: Methods and systems for efficiently allocating a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol based trading session/transaction a server by means of a load balancer are provided. According to one embodiment, a FIX packet of a FIX session is received at a load balancer fronting multiple servers of a high frequency trading (HFT) platform. A customer of the HFT platform is identified based on a SenderCompID field of the FIX packet. A customer weighting factor is determined based on a previously ascertained usage pattern of resources of the HFT platform by the customer. The customer is assigned to a server based on the weighting factor and a load of the selected server. A transport protocol flow associated with the FIX session is offloaded to a Network Processor (NP) Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Therefore, subsequent FIX packets of the FIX session are processed by the NP ASIC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: FORTINET, INC.
    Inventor: Jon Addison