Patents by Inventor Robert Bays

Robert Bays 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: 9374302
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling peer-to-peer transmission of stateful packet flows in a virtualized network environment are provided. In certain embodiments, a computer system receives a packet belonging to a stateful flow between a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, accesses flow associating information (e.g., network address) from the packet, determines a second computer system comprising a state analysis owner for the stateful flow, using the flow associating information, and transmits the first packet to the second computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bays, Mike Larson, Stephen Hemminger
  • Publication number: 20160173371
    Abstract: A distributed multilayered network routing architecture comprises multiple layers including a controller layer comprising a controller, a control plane layer comprising one or more control plane subsystems, and a data plane layer comprising one or more data plane subsystems. A controller may be coupled to one or more control plane subsystems. A control plane subsystem may in turn be coupled to one or more data plane subsystems, which may include one or more software data plane subsystems and/or hardware data plane subsystems. In certain embodiments, the locations of the various subsystems of a distributed router can be distributed among various devices in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Bays
  • Publication number: 20160127226
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable medium are described for improving efficiency and robustness for processing network packets at a network device, such as a customer premises equipment (CPE). The network device may include a plurality of physical network interfaces for receiving and transmitting network packets, and one or more processing entities. The one or more processing entities may provide a first router for providing routing functionality, wherein the first router is not virtualized, enable a virtual machine to execute a second router for providing routing functionality and forward a network packet using the first router or the second router from the device. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions associated with the first router from user space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Bays
  • Publication number: 20140341218
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling peer-to-peer transmission of stateful packet flows in a virtualized network environment are provided. In certain embodiments, a computer system receives a packet belonging to a stateful flow between a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, accesses flow associating information (e.g., network address) from the packet, determines a second computer system comprising a state analysis owner for the stateful flow, using the flow associating information, and transmits the first packet to the second computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bays, Mike Larson, Stephen Hemminger
  • Publication number: 20110273323
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar device having a housing that includes: a microwave motion detection module (3) generating a Doppler signal, a signal processor (5) for calculating a speed from said Doppler signal, processing means (1) for switching the module and the signal processor from a detection mode to a speed-measuring mode and vice versa, a wireless interface (8) for transmitting said speed to a remote device, and a self-contained power supply (9) for powering the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: DZOTECH SA
    Inventors: Jean-Nicolas BAYS, Robert Bays
  • Patent number: 6271024
    Abstract: A fast thermal cycler has a temperature chamber divided into a top, hot compartment heated by heating lamps and a bottom cold compartment cooled by liquid nitrogen, for optimizing thermal cycling rates for devices under test, such as solar cells, for rapid thermal life testing where both compartments use pressurized gaseous nitrogen for thermal conduction and regulation and a motor drive repetitively transports a test device mounted on a panel transiting between the two compartments. The thermal cycler is enhanced by computer control, enabling in-situ electrical testing, fail-safe heating, precision temperature heating and cooling phases, operator alerting and thermal gradient control during the temperature cycling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Sve, Pierre Rogelio Valenzuela, Timothy Steven Wall, Robert Walter Francis, Robert Bay Pan, Steven John VanWormer