Patents by Inventor Timothy PETTY

Timothy PETTY 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 checking to protect against denial of service attack
    Patent number: 10469529
    Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to checking packets at a hardware tunnel endpoint. In some embodiments, an encapsulated packet is received at a hardware tunnel endpoint. It is determined if an inner source media access control (MAC) address is associated with an outer source internet protocol (IP) address of the encapsulated packet based on a mapping of MAC addresses of virtual computing instances to IP addresses of tunnel endpoints stored at the hardware tunnel endpoint. If it is determined the inner source MAC address is not associated with the outer source IP address, the packet is dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nicira, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongya Qu, Timothy Petty
  • ADDRESS CHECKING TO PROTECT AGAINST DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK
    Publication number: 20190020679
    Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to checking packets at a hardware tunnel endpoint. In some embodiments, an encapsulated packet is received at a hardware tunnel endpoint. It is determined if an inner source media access control (MAC) address is associated with an outer source internet protocol (IP) address of the encapsulated packet based on a mapping of MAC addresses of virtual computing instances to IP addresses of tunnel endpoints stored at the hardware tunnel endpoint. If it is determined the inner source MAC address is not associated with the outer source IP address, the packet is dropped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Hongya QU, Timothy PETTY