Patents by Inventor Tom Meehan

Tom Meehan 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).

  • Determining an end point of a GRE tunnel
    Patent number: 6779051
    Abstract: An end point address of a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is obtained by forwarding a data packet through the GRE tunnel to devices at a multicast address. The data packet includes a logical address of a GRE tunnel end point device. A reply to the data packet is received from a remote GRE tunnel end point device. The reply includes a physical address of the remote GRE tunnel end point device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Nipun Basil, Ayikudy Srikanth, Tom Meehan
  • Method and apparatus providing for router redundancy of non internet protocols using the virtual router redundancy protocol
    Patent number: 6556547
    Abstract: A router providing router redundancy and fail-over protection for Internet Protocol (IP) and at least one other network layer protocol. The router Includes means for determining if the router has Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) enabled, means for determining if the router is a master virtual router for IP traffic, means for configuring the router with a VRRP based Media Access Control (MAC) address that overrides a physical MAC address assigned to a port at which VRRP is enabled, and means for transmitting the VRRP based MAC address in a Routing Information Protocol (RIP) update packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Ayikudy Srikanth, Tom Meehan, Hamayon Mujeeb
  • Leaf scoop
    Patent number: D581228
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Inventor: Tom Meehan