Patents by Inventor Sudhir K. Jain

Sudhir K. Jain 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).

  • Location aware service instance discovery
    Patent number: 9516097
    Abstract: Network elements provide associated client devices querying for network services with one or more lists of services in accordance with a physical location of the associated client devices relative to the network elements irrespective of membership of the client devices in any one or more VLANs of the network. Network service instances on a first VLAN are reported to the querying client device on a second VLAN in accordance with a physical location of the client device relative to the network elements. The one or more lists of services provided to the querying client device include intuitive location tag information for identifying the services and the locations of the services. The location and service data of the location tag may be presented in a concatenated format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Fajalia Bhavik Ishvarchandra, Ramamurthy Pani Kesapragada, Sudhir K Jain, Suganthi Ramasamy
  • Maintaining point of presence for clients roaming within a layer 2 domain
    Patent number: 8971289
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet from a source wireless device at a second switch, the source wireless device previously associated with a first switch and roamed to and associated with the second switch, wherein a point of presence for the source wireless device is maintained at the first switch, inserting into the packet a direction indicator, and forwarding the packet from the second switch to the first switch, the direction indicator identifying the packet as being transmitted towards the point of presence for the source wireless device to prevent a forwarding loop. An apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vipul Shah, Bhanu Gopalasetty, Navindra Yadav, Sudhir K. Jain, Rohit Suri
  • Maintaining point of presence for clients roaming within a layer 2 domain
    Publication number: 20120300756
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a packet from a source wireless device at a second switch, the source wireless device previously associated with a first switch and roamed to and associated with the second switch, wherein a point of presence for the source wireless device is maintained at the first switch, inserting into the packet a direction indicator, and forwarding the packet from the second switch to the first switch, the direction indicator identifying the packet as being transmitted towards the point of presence for the source wireless device to prevent a forwarding loop. An apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Vipul Shah, Bhanu Gopalasetty, Navindra Yadav, Sudhir K. Jain, Rohit Suri