Patents by Inventor Krishna Vavilala

Krishna Vavilala 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).

  • Power-over-ethernet power method and system
    Patent number: 10666049
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, system, and apparatus including a Power Source Equipment (PSE) device configured to provide Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to a Powered Device (PD) that is configured to receive a request from the PD requesting a quantity of PoE power, the quantity of PoE power including an amount of power to be provided by the PSE as power for redundancy, receiving a message from the PD, the message including a unique identifier, allocating a requested quantity of PoE power, the allocating of the requested quantity of PoE power including allocating to provide the requested quantity of PoE power from one of a plurality of PSEs, and providing the requested quantity of PoE power to the PD. Related methods, systems, and apparatuses are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Krishna Vavilala
  • POWER-OVER-ETHERNET POWER METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180131182
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, system, and apparatus including a Power Source Equipment (PSE) device configured to provide Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to a Powered Device (PD) that is configured to receive a request from the PD requesting a quantity of PoE power, the quantity of PoE power including an amount of power to be provided by the PSE as power for redundancy, receiving a message from the PD, the message including a unique identifier, allocating a requested quantity of PoE power, the allocating of the requested quantity of PoE power including allocating to provide the requested quantity of PoE power from one of a plurality of PSEs, and providing the requested quantity of PoE power to the PD. Related methods, systems, and apparatuses are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventor: Krishna VAVILALA
  • Platform independent implementation of private VLANS
    Publication number: 20060146835
    Abstract: A PVLAN having a primary and secondary VLAN's where the primary and secondary VLAN's have ports and the users connected to those ports. The MAC addresses of those users are learned in the primary or the secondary VLAN's and together with the port designation are stored preferably in tables associated with the VLAN's and the associated VLAN's. Processes are provided that replicate the tables in the other VLAN's so that the information necessary to transfer packets between source and destination ports is available to the associated VLAN's.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Sanjib Homchaudhuri, Senthil Arunacahalam, Sundher Narayanaswamy, Krishna Vavilala, Abhishek Gupta