Patents by Inventor Stuart G. Phillips

Stuart G. Phillips 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).

  • Enhanced network services using a subnetwork of communicating processors
    Patent number: 7246148
    Abstract: A method and system for providing enhanced services for a network. The enhanced services use information about the network which is available to a subnet of communicating processors (such as a set of routers), collectively executing a common distributed technique for disseminating that network information. The router subnet collects network topology information and provides a service using that network topology information, responsive to requests from non-routers coupled to the network (such as a set of host processors). The router subnet also collects information advertised by hosts coupled to the network, and disseminates that host information to substantially all routers, using the common distributed technique for disseminating network topology information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart G. Phillips, Anthony J. Li, David M. Katz
  • Enhanced network services using a subnetwork of communicating processors
    Patent number: 6917966
    Abstract: A method and system for providing enhanced services for a network. The enhanced services use information about the network which is available to a subnet of communicating processors (such as a set of routers), collectively executing a common distributed technique for disseminating that network information. The router subnet collects network topology information and provides a service using that network topology information, responsive to requests from non-routers coupled to the network (such as a set of host processors). The router subnet also collects information advertised by hosts coupled to the network, and disseminates that host information to substantially all routers, using the common distributed technique for disseminating network topology information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart G. Phillips, Anthony J. Li, David M. Katz
  • Enhanced network services using a subnetwork of communicating processors
    Patent number: 6640243
    Abstract: A method and system for providing enhanced services for a network. The enhanced services use information about the network which is available to a subnet of communicating processors (such as a set of routers), collectively executing a common distributed technique for disseminating that network information. The router subnet collects network topology information and provides a service using that network topology information, responsive to requests from non-routers coupled to the network (such as a set of host processors). The router subnet also collects information advertised by hosts coupled to the network, and disseminates that host information to substantially all routers, using the common distributed technique for disseminating network topology information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart G. Phillips, Anthony J. Li, David M. Katz
  • Enhanced network services using a subnetwork of communicating processors
    Patent number: 6182224
    Abstract: A method and system for providing enhanced services for a network. The enhanced services use information about the network which is available to a subnet of communicating processors (such as a set of routers), collectively executing a common distributed technique for disseminating that network information. The router subnet collects network topology information and provides a service using that network topology information, responsive to requests from non-routers coupled to the network (such as a set of host processors). The router subnet also collects information advertised by hosts coupled to the network, and disseminates that host information to substantially all routers, using the common distributed technique for disseminating network topology information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Cisco Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart G. Phillips, Anthony J. Li, David M. Katz