Patents by Inventor Vamsi Mohan Kodavanty

Vamsi Mohan Kodavanty 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).

  • Achieving super-fast convergence of downstream multicast traffic when forwarding connectivity changes between access and distribution switches
    Patent number: 7719959
    Abstract: In one embodiment a switch has active and standby LAYER 2 switch interfaces coupled, respectively, to device interfaces of first and second LAYER 2/LAYER 3 network devices. The active switch interface is configured to forward all egress traffic and accept all ingress traffic and the standby switch interface is configured to forward only IGMP messages and configured to block all ingress traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vipul Shah, Gnanaprakasam Pandian, Vamsi Mohan Kodavanty, Arun Sastry
  • ACHIEVING SUPER-FAST CONVERGENCE OF DOWNSTREAM MULTICAST TRAFFIC WHEN FORWARDING CONNECTIVITY CHANGES BETWEEN ACCESS AND DISTRIBUTION SWITCHES
    Publication number: 20080259913
    Abstract: In one embodiment a switch has active and standby LAYER 2 switch interfaces coupled, respectively, to device interfaces of first and second LAYER 2/LAYER 3 network devices. The active switch interface is configured to forward all egress traffic and accept all ingress traffic and the standby switch interface is configured to forward only IGMP messages and configured to block all ingress traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Vipul Shah, Gnanaprakasam Pandian, Vamsi Mohan Kodavanty, Arun Sastry