Patents by Inventor Kumar Ramachandran

Kumar Ramachandran 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: 12556443
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards
  • Publication number: 20250193253
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for flow metadata exchanges between network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; analyzing the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel, comprising: extracting meta data information associated with one flow of the flow to determine the meta data information, wherein the meta data information includes one or more of the following: a user identifier, an application identifier, and/or a device identifier; comparing the extracted meta data information with meta data information associated with a predetermined set of users, applications, and devices; and in the event that the extracted meta data information matches the meta data information associated with one or more of the predetermined set of users, applications, and devices, then determining that the one flow is associated with the split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-W
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Kumar Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20250023920
    Abstract: Techniques for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; inspecting the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Kumar Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 12143423
    Abstract: Techniques for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; inspecting the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Kumar Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20240297818
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards
  • Patent number: 11943094
    Abstract: A method includes allocating an identifier to each of a plurality of policies each comprising a network-isolation identifier associated with a VXWAN directive and transmitting each of the plurality of policies to one or more devices in a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards
  • Publication number: 20240031413
    Abstract: Techniques for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; inspecting the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Kumar Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 11870639
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy
  • Patent number: 11785048
    Abstract: Techniques for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; inspecting the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Kumar Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20230093190
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy
  • Patent number: 11575560
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy
  • Patent number: 11539576
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy
  • Publication number: 20220329479
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy
  • Publication number: 20220263708
    Abstract: Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy
  • Publication number: 20220141254
    Abstract: Techniques for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; inspecting the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Anand Oswal, Arivu Mani Ramasamy, Kumar Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20210367832
    Abstract: A method includes allocating an identifier to each of a plurality of policies each comprising a network-isolation identifier associated with a VXWAN directive and transmitting each of the plurality of policies to one or more devices in a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards
  • Patent number: 11063814
    Abstract: A method includes allocating an identifier to each of a plurality of policies each comprising a network-isolation identifier associated with a VXWAN directive and transmitting each of the plurality of policies to one or more devices in a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CloudGenix, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards
  • Patent number: 10560314
    Abstract: A method includes receiving from a networked spoke device information describing network flows to and from an application, analyzing the information to characterize the application in at least one dimension selected from the group consisting of bi-directional bandwidth usage, network response times, application response times, a number of idle and active application sessions and a maximum number of concurrent application sessions and transmitting the dimensions to at least one networked spoke device as traffic profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: CloudGenix, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Giorgio Valentini, Vijay Sagar
  • Patent number: 10374871
    Abstract: A method includes determining a network requirement for at least one application, dynamically determining a link suitable for data transmission in accordance with a policy based at least in part on a current network condition to meet the network requirement and routing one or more application network data flows associated with the at least one application over the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CLOUDGENIX, INC.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy, Vijay Sagar, Giorgio Valentini
  • Patent number: 10142164
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a data flow and an associated originating interface on a network, determining a first link over which to forward the data flow, transmitting the data flow over the determined link, receiving a return data flow and moving a forward direction of the return data flow to a new path if the return data flow arrived via a link other than the first link, wherein all packets following a first packet on the flow are forwarded on the same path as the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: CLOUDGENIX, INC.
    Inventors: Kumar Ramachandran, Venkataraman Anand, Navneet Yadav, Arivu Ramasamy, Aaron Edwards, Gopal Reddy