Patents by Inventor Ronald Mark Parker

Ronald Mark Parker 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: 11429465
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a native general-purpose controller for reconciling desired states for resources across a plurality of Kubemetes clusters in a cloud computing environment. An indication is received of one or more custom resources of the cloud computing environment. An API is instantiated at each of the Kubemetes clusters that are to be accessed. In response to receiving an indication that a desired state of one of the objects does not match a current state of the one object, a message is sent that indicates an action to reconcile the desired state with the current state. A message is received that indicates that the action to reconcile the desired state with the current state has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Akash Baid, Yamini Sridaran, Ronald Mark Parker
  • Patent number: 8711852
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sinking port mirrored data to any node in a network are provided. Moreover, the network is configured to convey the mirrored data to the sink, without the need for any facilities expressly dedicated for this purpose. The present invention removes the requirement to collocate the sink port within the same logical node. The present invention uses a mirrored flow configured as a provisioned layer two point-to-point connection, such as a Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit (SPVC), Pseudo-Wire (PWE3), a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) cross-connect, Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), or the like. The provisioned point-to-point connection is configured between the mirrored port to a sink port. The node with the mirrored port is configured to create copies of the appropriate set of packets (i.e. ingress or egress packets or both based on provisioning), and to forward the packets to the sink port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Parker, Christopher Michael Leduc
  • Patent number: 8711713
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sinking port mirrored from one or more identified flows of data to any node in a network are provided. Moreover, the network is configured to convey the mirrored data to the sink, without the need for any facilities expressly dedicated for this purpose. The present invention removes the requirement to co-locate the sink port within the same logical node. The present invention uses a mirrored flow configured as a provisioned layer two point-to-point connection, such as a Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit (SPVC), Pseudo-Wire (PWE3), a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) cross-connect, Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), and the like. The node with the mirrored port is configured to create copies of the appropriate set of packets (i.e., ingress, egress packets, or both based on provisioning and based on the identified flow), and to forward the packets to the sink port through the provisioned point-to-point connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Parker, Christopher Michael Leduc, Morteza Ghodrat
  • Patent number: 7835362
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for the management of sequence-sensitive, connection-oriented traffic on a multi-link aggregated port. The methods include: at a first end of a multi-link aggregated port, selectively enabling a first constituent link of a plurality of constituent links to transmit data traffic in a first direction via a transmit state block associated with the first constituent link; and, at the first end of the multi-link aggregated port, selectively enabling the plurality of constituent links to receive data traffic from a second direction via a plurality of receive state blocks associated with the plurality of constituent links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Gordon Libby, Ronald Mark Parker, Fouad Hallal
  • Publication number: 20090080425
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sinking port mirrored data to any node in a network are provided. Moreover, the network is configured to convey the mirrored data to the sink, without the need for any facilities expressly dedicated for this purpose. The present invention removes the requirement to collocate the sink port within the same logical node. The present invention uses a mirrored flow configured as a provisioned layer two point-to-point connection, such as a Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit (SPVC), Pseudo-Wire (PWE3), a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) cross-connect, Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), or the like. The provisioned point-to-point connection is configured between the mirrored port to a sink port. The node with the mirrored port is configured to create copies of the appropriate set of packets (i.e. ingress or egress packets or both based on provisioning), and to forward the packets to the sink port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Parker, Christopher Michael Leduc
  • Publication number: 20090080338
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sinking port mirrored from one or more identified flows of data to any node in a network are provided. Moreover, the network is configured to convey the mirrored data to the sink, without the need for any facilities expressly dedicated for this purpose. The present invention removes the requirement to co-locate the sink port within the same logical node. The present invention uses a mirrored flow configured as a provisioned layer two point-to-point connection, such as a Switched Permanent Virtual Circuit (SPVC), Pseudo-Wire (PWE3), a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) cross-connect, Provider Backbone Bridging—Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), and the like. The node with the mirrored port is configured to create copies of the appropriate set of packets (i.e., ingress, egress packets, or both based on provisioning and based on the identified flow), and to forward the packets to the sink port through the provisioned point-to-point connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Parker, Christopher Michael Leduc, Morteza Ghodrat
  • Patent number: 7428208
    Abstract: Multi-service telecommunication switches which include enhanced component redundancy and which also allow multiple chassis connections to a switching fabric enhance the likelihood that packets transmitted to and from the switch will not be lost due do a particular component failure and also enable chassis stacking in a rack system. Such a multi-service telecommunication switch includes redundant physical layer adapter cards, redundant service cards, redundant timing modules, and redundant switching fabrics. Further, the multi-service telecommunication switch, includes an enhanced data flow distribution (load-balancing) architecture which enables multiple chassis connections to the switching fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: John Patrick Jones, Michael Paul Demilia, Ronald Mark Parker, Mehmet Hakan Duymazlar
  • Publication number: 20030081540
    Abstract: Multi-service telecommunication switches which include enhanced component redundancy and which also allow multiple chassis connections to a switching fabric enhance the likelihood that packets transmitted to and from the switch will not be lost due do a particular component failure and also enable chassis stacking in a rack system. Such a multi-service telecommunication switch includes redundant physical layer adapter cards, redundant service cards, redundant timing modules, and redundant switching fabrics. Further, the multi-service telecommunication switch, includes an enhanced data flow distribution (load-balancing) architecture which enables multiple chassis connections to the switching fabrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: WaveSmith Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: John Patrick Jones, Michael Paul Demilia, Ronald Mark Parker, Mehmet Hakan Duymazlar