Patents by Inventor Steven Richard Ramberg

Steven Richard Ramberg 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).

  • Varying packet switch behavior based on a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch
    Patent number: 7869439
    Abstract: Packet switch operating methods and packet switches compare a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch to a threshold. If the quantity of virtual interfaces is not greater than the threshold, and the packet switch is configured to learn forwarding fields of packets forwarded by the virtual switch, the methods and switches configure the packet switch to not learn forwarding fields of packets subsequently forwarded by the virtual switch. Other methods and packet switches compare a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch to a threshold. If the quantity of virtual interfaces associated with the virtual switch is not greater than the threshold and the packet switch is configured to learn forwarding fields of packets forwarded by the virtual switch, the methods and packet switches configure the packet switch to not learn forwarding fields of packets subsequently forwarded by the virtual switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: World Wide Packets, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Ramberg, Andrew Patrick Schultz, Loren Douglas Larsen