Patents by Inventor Ranga Ramanujan

Ranga Ramanujan 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: 9602296
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for internet group management protocol tunneling. This may be done by electing, by each of a plurality of multicast gateways in a subnet, a designated router in the subnet. The designated router sends internet group management protocol queries to at least one router in the subnet. The designated router further tunnels internet group management protocol reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John Wu, Nathan Bahr, Maher Kaddoura, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Publication number: 20160057116
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing communication between devices in different networks wherein the communication must first pass through an encryption mechanism and the devices do not have the stand-alone capability to encrypt or decrypt the communication. According to these techniques, an adapter may determine certain fields in a data packet that remain unencrypted when the data packet passes through the encryption mechanism. The adapter may then process those fields in such a way that, when the data packets are received by a second adapter, the second adapter may read those fields and obtain information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Deborah K. Charan, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Publication number: 20160006573
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for internet group management protocol tunneling. This may be done by electing, by each of a plurality of multicast gateways in a subnet, a designated router in the subnet. The designated router sends internet group management protocol queries to at least one router in the subnet. The designated router further tunnels internet group management protocol reports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: John Wu, Nathan Bahr, Maher Kaddoura, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Patent number: 9191377
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing communication between devices in different networks wherein the communication must first pass through an encryption mechanism and the devices do not have the stand-alone capability to encrypt or decrypt the communication. According to these techniques, an adapter may determine certain fields in a data packet that remain unencrypted when the data packet passes through the encryption mechanism. The adapter may then process those fields in such a way that, when the data packets are received by a second adapter, the second adapter may read those fields and obtain information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Deborah K. Charan, Taylor Bouvin, Ranga Ramanujan, Barry A. Trent
  • Patent number: 9160553
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for communicating in an adaptive multicast network. In general, the disclosure is directed to communicating in an adaptive multicast network. This may be done by archiving, at a rendezvous point, multicast subscription information for terminal nodes in the adaptive multicast network, wherein the multicast subscription information comprises a dynamic list of receiver terminal nodes located within the adaptive multicast network that subscribe to particular multicast streams from one or more terminal nodes in the adaptive multicast network. A router receives a multicast stream from a sender terminal node. The router receives the multicast subscription information for the multicast stream sent by the sender terminal node from the rendezvous point. The router forwards the multicast stream to all receiver terminal nodes in the dynamic list of receiver terminal nodes indicated as subscribing to the multicast stream sent by the sender terminal node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John Wu, Nathan Bahr, Maher Kaddoura, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Publication number: 20150180830
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a context aware scalable dynamic network whereby network information concerning network elements in an untrusted (Black) network are gathered by network sensors, stored at a network sensor collector, and sent to another network sensor collector in a trusted (Red) network through a one-way guard. At the Red network, the network information from the Black network may be combined with network information from one or more Red networks. The combined network information may then be used to visualize a cross-domain network topology of both Red and Black networks, and to implement network management functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Benjamin L. Burnett, Deborah K. Charan, Fabio Pozzo, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Publication number: 20150149764
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing communication between devices in different networks wherein the communication must first pass through an encryption mechanism and the devices do not have the stand-alone capability to encrypt or decrypt the communication. According to these techniques, an adapter may determine certain fields in a data packet that remain unencrypted when the data packet passes through the encryption mechanism. The adapter may then process those fields in such a way that, when the data packets are received by a second adapter, the second adapter may read those fields and obtain information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Deborah K. Charan, Taylor Bouvin, Ranga Ramanujan, Barry A. Trent
  • Publication number: 20150146603
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for communicating in an adaptive multicast network. In general, the disclosure is directed to communicating in an adaptive multicast network. This may be done by archiving, at a rendezvous point, multicast subscription information for terminal nodes in the adaptive multicast network, wherein the multicast subscription information comprises a dynamic list of receiver terminal nodes located within the adaptive multicast network that subscribe to particular multicast streams from one or more terminal nodes in the adaptive multicast network. A router receives a multicast stream from a sender terminal node. The router receives the multicast subscription information for the multicast stream sent by the sender terminal node from the rendezvous point. The router forwards the multicast stream to all receiver terminal nodes in the dynamic list of receiver terminal nodes indicated as subscribing to the multicast stream sent by the sender terminal node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John Wu, Nathan Bahr, Maher Kaddoura, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Patent number: 8874719
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a context aware scalable dynamic network whereby network information concerning network elements in an untrusted (Black) network are gathered by network sensors, stored at a network sensor collector, and sent to another network sensor collector in a trusted (Red) network through a one-way guard. At the Red network, the network information from the Black network may be combined with network information from one or more Red networks. The combined network information may then be used to visualize a cross-domain network topology of both Red and Black networks, and to implement network management functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin L. Burnett, Deborah K. Charan, Fabio Pozzo, Ranga Ramanujan
  • Publication number: 20050010753
    Abstract: In general, the invention is directed to techniques for preventing or otherwise reducing the effects of network attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, on applications that use messaging services. In particular, the invention may be effective for publish/subscribe messaging services and queuing messaging services. The techniques utilize destination aliasing, a form of channel partitioning, in which each messaging service client associated with a messaging service is assigned a unique alias for each topic that the messaging service client requests service. The aliases may be used for monitoring traffic originating from particular clients, defending applications from network attacks, and preventing resumption of an attack by an attacking client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Carla Marceau, Kevin Millikin, Ranga Ramanujan