Patents by Inventor Kirk Allan Felbinger

Kirk Allan Felbinger 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: 10878483
    Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for hierarchical management of co-location facility assets and permissions. For example, techniques are described for managing permissions for sub-customer access to reseller assets of a co-location facility, where the sub-customers are customers of the reseller. The techniques as described herein may, as a result, enable customers that become resellers to assign assets of the cloud exchange and manage sub-customer permissions to those assigned assets, including sub-customer orderings and/or access of assets associated with one or more geographically distinct co-location facilities and port-level assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: EQUINIX, INC.
    Inventors: Kirk Allan Felbinger, Robert Leighton Noakes, II, Suraj Prakash Dasika, Theodore James Wagner, Thomas Banola, Padmanabha Rao Rayadurga Vithal Rao
  • Patent number: 10439888
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes identifying, by an interconnect engine executing at a computing device, based at least in part on querying telemetry data that indicates interconnections established between interconnection facility customers within a plurality of interconnection facilities by an interconnection facility provider, a set of existing interconnections between a particular interconnection facility customer and at least one target interconnection facility customer within the plurality of interconnection facilities; generating, by the interconnect engine and based at least on part on the set of existing interconnections, a set of prospective interconnections between the particular interconnection facility customer and the target interconnection facility customers for at least one interconnection facility of the plurality of interconnection facilities, wherein the set of prospective interconnections are not included in the telemetry data; and outputting, by the interconnect engine and for display
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: EQUINIX, INC.
    Inventors: Kirk Allan Felbinger, Steve Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20170012831
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes identifying, by an interconnect engine executing at a computing device, based at least in part on querying telemetry data that indicates interconnections established between interconnection facility customers within a plurality of interconnection facilities by an interconnection facility provider, a set of existing interconnections between a particular interconnection facility customer and at least one target interconnection facility customer within the plurality of interconnection facilities; generating, by the interconnect engine and based at least on part on the set of existing interconnections, a set of prospective interconnections between the particular interconnection facility customer and the target interconnection facility customers for at least one interconnection facility of the plurality of interconnection facilities, wherein the set of prospective interconnections are not included in the telemetry data; and outputting, by the interconnect engine and for display
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kirk Allan Felbinger, Steve Ming Wu