Patents by Inventor Richard Charles Boelens

Richard Charles Boelens 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).

  • Method and system for distributed virtual traffic management
    Patent number: 8477619
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, methods and systems may be configured to support client-to-network, network-to-client, and network-to-network flows in a network element including multiple plug-in units. Such support may include policing and shaping flows as aggregates across plug-in units, combining outputs of two upstream traffic managers to network ports on two plug-in units, combining network flows that ingress two plug-in units, and shaping traffic to client ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Muhammad Sakhi Sarwar, Ali Zaringhalam, Stephen Joseph Brolin, Simmonds John Mathews, Richard Charles Boelens, Frank Schumeg
  • Method and System for Frame Discard on Switchover of Traffic Manager Resources
    Publication number: 20120254397
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving a plurality of frames in a flow from a plurality of traffic managers, determining whether a traffic manager from which a frame in the flow was sent is a primary traffic manager for the flow or a secondary traffic manager for the flow based on a class marker for the frame, switching the frame if the frame is from the primary traffic manager for the flow, and discarding the frame if the frame is from the secondary traffic manager for the flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ali Zaringhalam, Richard Charles Boelens, Stephen J. Brolin
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20120063312
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, methods and systems may be configured to support client-to-network, network-to-client, and network-to-network flows in a network element including multiple plug-in units. Such support may include policing and shaping flows as aggregates across plug-in units, combining outputs of two upstream traffic managers to network ports on two plug-in units, combining network flows that ingress two plug-in units, and shaping traffic to client ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Muhammad Sakhi Sarwar, Ali Zaringhalam, Stephen Joseph Brolin, Simmonds John Mathews, Richard Charles Boelens, Frank Schumeg