Patents by Inventor Sandra Snively, legal representative

Sandra Snively, legal representative 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).

  • Address assignment in Fibre Channel over Ethernet environments
    Patent number: 8108454
    Abstract: A method of initializing a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fiber Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC addresses to the ENode corresponding to each available FCF, and converting from a management and initialization process using the first MAC address to normal Fiber Channel operation using the second MAC addresses. The implementations described herein may additionally distinguish management and initialization processes from normal Fiber Channel operation using separate Ethertypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Norman Snively, Sandra Snively, legal representative, Ezio Valdevit, Suresh Vobbilisetty, John Hufferd, Glenn Charles Wenig, Boris Zemlyak, Anoop Ghanwani