Patents by Inventor Kenton Perry Nickell

Kenton Perry Nickell 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: 11516113
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for network slicers. Network slicers can receive creation request messages and select network slices based on policies. A network slicer can indicate to next hop routers that it has lower routing costs in order to receive messages, and inspect the received messages to identify creation request messages. A network slicer can indicate to a DNS server that it has a higher priority than other network elements, and receive creation request messages based on the higher priority. New creation request messages can be sent to the selected network slices based on received creation request messages. The network can also create and send appropriate response messages to the creation request to establish future communications with the selected network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Haibo Qian, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Kenton Perry Nickell, Ronald M. Parker, Fred Rink
  • Publication number: 20190297002
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for network slicers. Network slicers can receive creation request messages and select network slices based on policies. A network slicer can indicate to next hop routers that it has lower routing costs in order to receive messages, and inspect the received messages to identify creation request messages. A network slicer can indicate to a DNS server that it has a higher priority than other network elements, and receive creation request messages based on the higher priority. New creation request messages can be sent to the selected network slices based on received creation request messages. The network can also create and send appropriate response messages to the creation request to establish future communications with the selected network slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Haibo QIAN, Srinivasan MURALIDHARAN, Kenton Perry NICKELL, Ronald M. PARKER, Fred RINK
  • Publication number: 20170293500
    Abstract: Example implementations involve a mechanism based on inter virtual machine (VM) communication to detect latency between VMs (Latency Detection Protocol) and peer nodes. The mechanism is used to optimize inter VM communication, by selecting a VM closest to the source; and also it is used to anchor an external connection to a VM which is closer to the external peer network function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Carlos Molina, Kenton Perry Nickell, Haibo Qian, Fred Rink, Michael Anthony Brown