Patents by Inventor Reda Laichi

Reda Laichi 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: 10506037
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses improvements in computer performance in communication networks, which may include improvements in computer performance in supporting discovery of ingress provider edge (PE) devices in a communication network using egress peer engineering (EPE) and software defined networking (SDN). The ingress PE devices of a network may have peering relationships with an egress peer link of an egress peer node of the network. The ingress PE devices may be discovered by identifying a set of traffic flows on an egress peer link of an egress peer node, identifying a set of ingress PE devices that have peering relationships with the egress peer node, determining bandwidth usage information, selecting, from the set of ingress PE devices based on the bandwidth usage information, a set of selected ingress PE devices, and initiating a management action for at least one of the selected ingress PE devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Hamid Ould-Brahim, Reda Laichi, Mustapha Aissaoui, Anand Thiagarajan
  • Publication number: 20180167458
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses improvements in computer performance in communication networks, which may include improvements in computer performance in supporting discovery of ingress provider edge (PE) devices in a communication network using egress peer engineering (EPE) and software defined networking (SDN). The ingress PE devices of a network may have peering relationships with an egress peer link of an egress peer node of the network. The ingress PE devices may be discovered by identifying a set of traffic flows on an egress peer link of an egress peer node, identifying a set of ingress PE devices that have peering relationships with the egress peer node, determining bandwidth usage information, selecting, from the set of ingress PE devices based on the bandwidth usage information, a set of selected ingress PE devices, and initiating a management action for at least one of the selected ingress PE devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Hamid Ould-Brahim, Reda Laichi, Mustapha Aissaoui, Anand Thiagarajan
  • Patent number: 9118502
    Abstract: The invention is directed to providing a method and system for automatically determining a root cause of a failure in a packet switching telecommunications network using IP/MPLS protocols and having Virtual Private Network (VPN) services such as VLL, VPLS, VPRN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Denis Armand Proulx, Reda Laichi
  • Patent number: 8040822
    Abstract: The invention is directed to configuring services in a packet switching network. Embodiments of the invention group existing service policies configured on network routers into policy groups, thereby enabling better management of service policies and policy overrides. This functionality can be useful for identifying redundant policies that may be eliminated by reconfiguring one or more of the network routers to reduce the overall network-wide number of policies, as well as provisioning new services in a manner that efficiently uses existing policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Denis Armand Proulx, Reda Laichi
  • Publication number: 20110158111
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and system for bulk provisioning of telecommunications services on a live network and is suited to migrating telecommunications services from a legacy network to another network. Customer service data files can be imported, and validated against customer service rules and against live configuration data of the live network. Actions are logged and can be rolled back when errors are encountered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Proulx, Reda Laichi
  • Publication number: 20100315955
    Abstract: The invention is directed to providing a method and system for automatically determining a root cause of a failure in a packet switching telecommunications network using IP/MPLS protocols and having Virtual Private Network (VPN) services such as VLL, VPLS, VPRN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Armand Proulx, Reda Laichi
  • Publication number: 20100309907
    Abstract: The invention is directed to configuring services in a packet switching network. Embodiments of the invention group existing service policies configured on network routers into policy groups, thereby enabling better management of service policies and policy overrides. This functionality can be useful for identifying redundant policies that may be eliminated by reconfiguring one or more of the network routers to reduce the overall network-wide number of policies, as well as provisioning new services in a manner that efficiently uses existing policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: ALCATEL-LUCENT CANADA, INC.
    Inventors: Denis Armand Proulx, Reda Laichi