Patents by Inventor Roopa Prabhu

Roopa Prabhu 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).

  • Methods and systems for flow virtualization and visibility
    Patent number: 11438261
    Abstract: Identity information is decoupled from reachability information in packets transferred between hosts of a computer network by replacing forwarding information within said packets with an identifier having a format of the forwarding information, and applying forwarding labels, derived from the identifiers, which are then used in lieu of the forwarding information for conveying the packets within the network. During such conveyance, the packets are treated according to one or more policies prescribed on a basis of the identifier, which may be an IPv6 address. The forwarding labels may be MPLS labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CUMULUS NETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Shrijeet Mukherjee, Sameer Merchant, Wilson Kok, Roopa Prabhu
  • Methods and systems for flow virtualization and visibility
    Publication number: 20210075719
    Abstract: Identity information is decoupled from reachability information in packets transferred between hosts of a computer network by replacing forwarding information within said packets with an identifier having a format of the forwarding information, and applying forwarding labels, derived from the identifiers, which are then used in lieu of the forwarding information for conveying the packets within the network. During such conveyance, the packets are treated according to one or more policies prescribed on a basis of the identifier, which may be an IPv6 address. The forwarding labels may be MPLS labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shrijeet Mukherjee, Sameer Merchant, Wilson Kok, Roopa Prabhu
  • Methods and systems for flow virtualization and visibility
    Patent number: 10880207
    Abstract: Identity information is decoupled from reachability information in packets transferred between hosts of a computer network by replacing forwarding information within said packets with an identifier having a format of the forwarding information, and applying forwarding labels, derived from the identifiers, which are then used in lieu of the forwarding information for conveying the packets within the network. During such conveyance, the packets are treated according to one or more policies prescribed on a basis of the identifier, which may be an IPv6 address. The forwarding labels may be MPLS labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Cumulus Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Shrijeet Mukherjee, Sameer Merchant, Wilson Kok, Roopa Prabhu
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FLOW VIRTUALIZATION AND VISIBILITY
    Publication number: 20190166044
    Abstract: Identity information is decoupled from reachability information in packets transferred between hosts of a computer network by replacing forwarding information within said packets with an identifier having a format of the forwarding information, and applying forwarding labels, derived from the identifiers, which are then used in lieu of the forwarding information for conveying the packets within the network. During such conveyance, the packets are treated according to one or more policies prescribed on a basis of the identifier, which may be an IPv6 address. The forwarding labels may be MPLS labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Shrijeet Mukherjee, Sameer Merchant, Wilson Kok, Roopa Prabhu