Patents by Inventor Nipun Basil

Nipun Basil 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).

  • Determining an end point of a GRE tunnel
    Patent number: 6779051
    Abstract: An end point address of a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is obtained by forwarding a data packet through the GRE tunnel to devices at a multicast address. The data packet includes a logical address of a GRE tunnel end point device. A reply to the data packet is received from a remote GRE tunnel end point device. The reply includes a physical address of the remote GRE tunnel end point device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Nipun Basil, Ayikudy Srikanth, Tom Meehan