Patents by Inventor Stephen McQuistin

Stephen McQuistin 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).

  • Predictive Anycast traffic shaping
    Patent number: 11336579
    Abstract: Gateway devices at different sites of a primary Anycast network provide access to the sites by advertising a first set of Anycast addresses. A secondary shadow Anycast network advertises different second sets of Anycast addresses from the different sites in order to predetermine traffic shifts that occur as a result of changing one or more of the second set of Anycast addresses that are advertised from one or more of the sites. A traffic shifting device may implement a predetermined traffic shift in the primary Anycast network by selecting a particular second set of network addresses that produces a traffic shift at least equal to the predetermined traffic shift, mapping the particular second set of network addresses to a modified first set of addresses, and modifying routing in the primary Anycast network by advertising the modified first set of addresses instead of the first set of addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Edgecast Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Sawyer, Marcel Eric Schechner Flores, Carl Tewksbury, Sree Priyanka Uppu, Stephen McQuistin
  • Predictive Anycast Traffic Shaping
    Publication number: 20200267086
    Abstract: Gateway devices at different sites of a primary Anycast network provide access to the sites by advertising a first set of Anycast addresses. A secondary shadow Anycast network advertises different second sets of Anycast addresses from the different sites in order to predetermine traffic shifts that occur as a result of changing one or more of the second set of Anycast addresses that are advertised from one or more of the sites. A traffic shifting device may implement a predetermined traffic shift in the primary Anycast network by selecting a particular second set of network addresses that produces a traffic shift at least equal to the predetermined traffic shift, mapping the particular second set of network addresses to a modified first set of addresses, and modifying routing in the primary Anycast network by advertising the modified first set of addresses instead of the first set of addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Sawyer, Marcel Eric Schechner Flores, Carl Tewksbury, Sree Priyanka Uppu, Stephen McQuistin
  • Predictive Anycast traffic shaping
    Patent number: 10645008
    Abstract: Gateway devices at different sites of a primary Anycast network provide access to the sites by advertising a first set of Anycast addresses. A secondary shadow Anycast network advertises different second sets of Anycast addresses from the different sites in order to predetermine traffic shifts that occur as a result of changing one or more of the second set of Anycast addresses that are advertised from one or more of the sites. A traffic shifting device may implement a predetermined traffic shift in the primary Anycast network by selecting a particular second set of network addresses that produces a traffic shift at least equal to the predetermined traffic shift, mapping the particular second set of network addresses to a modified first set of addresses, and modifying routing in the primary Anycast network by advertising the modified first set of addresses instead of the first set of addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Sawyer, Marcel Eric Schechner Flores, Carl Tewksbury, Sree Priyanka Uppu, Stephen McQuistin