Patents by Inventor Mary Keefe Hirsekorn

Mary Keefe Hirsekorn 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).

  • Guided network management
    Patent number: 10797960
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed, in part, to a system that can monitor traffic traversing a virtualized network that includes a plurality of virtual network functions (“VNFs”) that provide, at least in part, a service. The system can capture an event from the traffic. The event can involve at least one VNF, and can negatively affect at least one operational aspect of the virtualized network in providing the service. The system can create snapshot that represents a network state of the virtualized network during the event. The system can create, based upon the snapshot, a shadow network. The shadow network can include a network emulation of the network state of the virtualized network during the event. The system can determine, from the shadow network, at least one modification to at least a portion of the virtualized network that would at least mitigate negative effects of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Ryan Cullinane, Russell Fischer, Mary Keefe Hirsekorn, Jeffrey Stein, Paul Triantafyllou
  • Guided Network Management
    Publication number: 20190199599
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed, in part, to a system that can monitor traffic traversing a virtualized network that includes a plurality of virtual network functions (“VNFs”) that provide, at least in part, a service. The system can capture an event from the traffic. The event can involve at least one VNF, and can negatively affect at least one operational aspect of the virtualized network in providing the service. The system can create snapshot that represents a network state of the virtualized network during the event. The system can create, based upon the snapshot, a shadow network. The shadow network can include a network emulation of the network state of the virtualized network during the event. The system can determine, from the shadow network, at least one modification to at least a portion of the virtualized network that would at least mitigate negative effects of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Ryan Cullinane, Russell Fischer, Mary Keefe Hirsekorn, Jeffrey Stein, Paul Triantafyllou