Patents by Inventor Mark Llacuna

Mark Llacuna 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).

  • Managing the distribution of control protocol information in a network node
    Patent number: 8054830
    Abstract: A technique for managing control protocol information in a network node involves identifying messages as control protocol messages and checking the messages to see if the messages carry any updated control protocol information. If a control protocol message carries updated control protocol information, then the message is forwarded to a control protocol processor and if the message does not carry any updated control protocol information then the message is dropped before getting to the control protocol processor. The determination as to whether or not a control protocol message carries updated control protocol information can be made by generating a digest from a control protocol message and comparing the digest to a digest generated from a previously received control protocol message. A mismatch between the newly generated digest and the digest from the previously received control protocol message is an indication that the current message carries updated control protocol information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Vipin Jain, Mark Llacuna
  • Managing the distribution of control protocol information in a network node
    Publication number: 20070127464
    Abstract: A technique for managing control protocol information in a network node involves identifying messages as control protocol messages and checking the messages to see if the messages carry any updated control protocol information. If a control protocol message carries updated control protocol information, then the message is forwarded to a control protocol processor and if the message does not carry any updated control protocol information then the message is dropped before getting to the control protocol processor. The determination as to whether or not a control protocol message carries updated control protocol information can be made by generating a digest from a control protocol message and comparing the digest to a digest generated from a previously received control protocol message. A mismatch between the newly generated digest and the digest from the previously received control protocol message is an indication that the current message carries updated control protocol information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Vipin Jain, Mark Llacuna