Patents by Inventor Sampathkumar Rajamanickam

Sampathkumar Rajamanickam 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 apparatus for optimizing data traffic path through a stacked switch LAG configuration
    Patent number: 8693341
    Abstract: A stacked switch includes two or more individual network switches connected to each other in a ring or daisy chain topology over stacking links, and at least one port on two or more of the individual switches comprising the stacked switch is a member of a LAG configured on the stacked switch. Each of the individual switches comprising the stacked switch include control plane and data plane functionality that operates to maintain switching tables and to process network data ingressing to the switch to determine how to forward the network data through the switch to an egress point. The control functionality included in each of the switches comprising the stacked switch also includes an enhanced ECMP functionality that operates to optimize the use of stacking link bandwidth on the stacking links connecting the two or more individual switches to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Force10 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Muralikrishnan Rajamanickam, Sampathkumar Rajamanickam
  • METHOD & APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING DATA TRAFFIC PATH THROUGH A STACKED SWITCH LAG CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20120314581
    Abstract: A stacked switch includes two or more individual network switches connected to each other in a ring or daisy chain topology over stacking links, and at least one port on two or more of the individual switches comprising the stacked switch is a member of a LAG configured on the stacked switch. Each of the individual switches comprising the stacked switch include control plane and data plane functionality that operates to maintain switching tables and to process network data ingressing to the switch to determine how to forward the network data through the switch to an egress point. The control functionality included in each of the switches comprising the stacked switch also includes an enhanced ECMP functionality that operates to optimize the use of stacking link bandwidth on the stacking links connecting the two or more individual switches to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Force 10 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: MURALIKRISHNAN RAJAMANICKAM, Sampathkumar Rajamanickam