Patents by Inventor Raj Tuplar

Raj Tuplar 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).

  • Platform-independent control plane and lower-level derivation of forwarding structures
    Patent number: 7990993
    Abstract: A network device includes a processor that executes a software module above an operating system of a network device, wherein the software module is configured to create a set of forwarding structures for use in forwarding network traffic with the network device without regard to limitations of an underlying architecture of the forwarding plane. The network device also includes a forwarding structure control module operative within or below the operating system of the network device, wherein the forwarding structure control module is configured to create a set of derived forwarding structures based on the set of forwarding structures provided by the software module for installation in the forwarding information of the forwarding plane. The derived set of forwarding structures is created in accordance with the limitations of the underlying architecture of the forwarding plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaushik Ghosh, Kireeti Kompella, Junan Chen, Raj Tuplar