Patents by Inventor Varun Malhotra

Varun Malhotra 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).

  • Publication number: 20240112103
    Abstract: A system is provided to evaluate users for credentials, career objectives and other characteristics (e.g., traits). The system also evaluates job openings for credentials, career objectives, and other characteristics. A matching process is implemented to match users to job openings based on credentials, career objectives, and traits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jake Samuel Sheinberg, Yuvraj Multani, Varun Malhotra, Dylan Smith
  • Publication number: 20240090733
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include navigating the mobile cleaning robot within an environment. Whether a movement condition is satisfied can be determined and a mopping pad tray can be moved relative to a body of the mobile cleaning robot between a cleaning position and a stored position in response to receipt of a command to move the mopping pad tray when the movement condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Clements, Varun Malhotra, Landon Unninayar, Brian Cleve Benson, JR., Andrew Graziani, Shiwei Wang, Thomas C. Chang, Dan Wivagg
  • Publication number: 20240090734
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include navigating the mobile cleaning robot within an environment. A vacuum system of the mobile cleaning robot can be operated to ingest debris from the environment Whether a dispense condition is satisfied can be determined. Fluid can be dispensed from the mobile cleaning robot when the dispense condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Bourget, Jack Wells, Olga Taran, Matthew Clements, Chris Bailey, Varun Malhotra, Landon Unninayar, Bingqian Xie
  • Patent number: 11765046
    Abstract: This disclosure provides solutions for automatically grouping network devices (e.g., endpoints) into clusters based on device characteristics. In some aspects, the disclosed technology also provides solutions for generating user selectable queries based on cluster characteristics. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for identifying one or more device characteristics associated with a first network device, identifying one or more cluster characteristics for each of a first cluster and a second cluster, and comparing the device characteristics associated with the first network device with the one or more cluster characteristics for the first cluster and the second cluster. The process can further include steps for adding the first network device to the first cluster based on the cluster characteristics for the first cluster and the device characteristics for the first network device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Weifei Zeng, Omid Madani, Varun Malhotra, Paul Mach, Yash Vipul Doshi, Sayeed Mohammed Tasnim, Thanh Nhan Thi Nguyen, Navindra Yadav, Shashi Gandham
  • Publication number: 20230283520
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to intent driven network management. A system is configured to maintain an inventory store comprising records for a set of network entities in a network, wherein each network entity in the set of network entities is associated with a record in the inventory store. The system receives a user intent statement comprising an action and a flow filter representing network data flows on which the action is to be applied and queries, based on the flow filter, the inventory store to identify a plurality of network entities in the set of network entities to which the user intent statement applies. The system generates a plurality of network policies that implement the user intent statement based on the plurality of network entities and the action and enforces the plurality network policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Nguyen, Abhishek Singh, Shih-Chun Chang, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Paul Mach, Rachita Agasthy, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra, Michael Watts, Sunil Gupta
  • Patent number: 11706239
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are disclosed for detecting vulnerabilities in real-time during execution of a process or an application. In one example, a device may have one or more memories storing computer-readable instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to obtain real-time process information associated with a process executing in an endpoint. The device can then determine package information for a package associated with the process based on the process information. The device can then identify at least one vulnerability associated with the package information using a database of vulnerabilities stored on a backend component of the network. The backend component may have a database of vulnerabilities for packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hai Vu, Thanh Nhan Nguyen, Vaishali Palkar, Varun Malhotra, Shih-Chun Chang, Xin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230147790
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for reporting to a network policy system. A network agent includes an agent enforcer and an agent controller. The agent enforcer is configured to implementing network policies on the system, access data associated with the implementation of the network policies on the system, and transmit, via an interprocess communication, the data to the agent controller. The agent controller is configured to generate a report including the data and transmit the report to a network policy system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Hai Vu, Shih-Chun Chang, Varun Malhotra, Shashi Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Allen Chen, Praneeth Vallem, Rohit Prasad
  • Patent number: 11646940
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to intent driven network management. A system is configured to maintain an inventory store comprising records for a set of network entities in a network, wherein each network entity in the set of network entities is associated with a record in the inventory store. The system receives a user intent statement comprising an action and a flow filter representing network data flows on which the action is to be applied and queries, based on the flow filter, the inventory store to identify a plurality of network entities in the set of network entities to which the user intent statement applies. The system generates a plurality of network policies that implement the user intent statement based on the plurality of network entities and the action and enforces the plurality network policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Nguyen, Abhishek Singh, Shih-Chun Chang, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Paul Mach, Rachita Agasthy, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra, Michael Watts, Sunil Gupta
  • Patent number: 11627166
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for discovering policy scopes within an enterprise network and managing network policies for discovered policy scopes. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more communities of devices in an enterprise network; defining, from the one or more communities of devices, policy scopes in the enterprise network; generating a hierarchical representation of the policy scopes; identifying, based on the hierarchical representation of the policy scopes, one or more policies governing traffic flow between devices associated with each of the policy scopes; and managing application of the one or more policies at the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Weifei Zeng, Sai Ankith Averineni, Omid Madani, Paul Mach, Yash Vipul Doshi, Sasidhar Evuru, Sayeed Mohammed Tasnim, Sameer Salim Mahomed Ali Ladiwala, Chakradhar Reddy Vangeti, Thanh Nhan Nguyen, Varun Malhotra, Shashidhar Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Thanh Trung Ngo, Maxwell Aaron Mechanic
  • Patent number: 11509535
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for reporting to a network policy system. A network agent includes an agent enforcer and an agent controller. The agent enforcer is configured to implementing network policies on the system, access data associated with the implementation of the network policies on the system, and transmit, via an interprocess communication, the data to the agent controller. The agent controller is configured to generate a report including the data and transmit the report to a network policy system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hai Vu, Shih-Chun Chang, Varun Malhotra, Shashi Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Allen Chen, Praneeth Vallem, Rohit Prasad
  • Publication number: 20220109701
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for discovering policy scopes within an enterprise network and managing network policies for discovered policy scopes. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more communities of devices in an enterprise network; defining, from the one or more communities of devices, policy scopes in the enterprise network; generating a hierarchical representation of the policy scopes; identifying, based on the hierarchical representation of the policy scopes, one or more policies governing traffic flow between devices associated with each of the policy scopes; and managing application of the one or more policies at the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Weifei Zeng, Sai Ankith Averineni, Omid Madani, Paul Mach, Yash Vipul Doshi, Sasidhar Evuru, Sayeed Mohammed Tasnim, Sameer Salim Mahomed Ali Ladiwala, Chakradhar Reddy Vangeti, Thanh Nhan Nguyen, Varun Malhotra, Shashidhar Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Thanh Trung Ngo, Maxwell Aaron Mechanic
  • Publication number: 20220070197
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are disclosed for detecting vulnerabilities in real-time during execution of a process or an application. In one example, a device may have one or more memories storing computer-readable instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to obtain real-time process information associated with a process executing in an endpoint. The device can then determine package information for a package associated with the process based on the process information. The device can then identify at least one vulnerability associated with the package information using a database of vulnerabilities stored on a backend component of the network. The backend component may have a database of vulnerabilities for packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hai Vu, Thanh Nhan Nguyen, Vaishali Palkar, Varun Malhotra, Shih-Chun Chang, Xin Liu
  • Patent number: 11252038
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for generating platform specific network policies. A network agent is configured to receive a platform independent network policy from a network policy system, determine implementation characteristics of the network entity, generate platform specific policies from the platform independent network policy based on the implementation characteristics of the network entity, and implement the platform specific policies on the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Hai Vu, Shih-Chun Chang, Hoang Nguyen, Shashi Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Praneeth Vallem, Sunil Gupta, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra
  • Publication number: 20220014436
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to intent driven network management. A system is configured to maintain an inventory store comprising records for a set of network entities in a network, wherein each network entity in the set of network entities is associated with a record in the inventory store. The system receives a user intent statement comprising an action and a flow filter representing network data flows on which the action is to be applied and queries, based on the flow filter, the inventory store to identify a plurality of network entities in the set of network entities to which the user intent statement applies. The system generates a plurality of network policies that implement the user intent statement based on the plurality of network entities and the action and enforces the plurality network policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Nguyen, Abhishek Singh, Shih-Chun Chang, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Paul Mach, Rachita Agasthy, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra, Michael Watts, Sunil Gupta
  • Patent number: 11146454
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to intent driven network management. A system is configured to maintain an inventory store comprising records for a set of network entities in a network, wherein each network entity in the set of network entities is associated with a record in the inventory store. The system receives a user intent statement comprising an action and a flow filter representing network data flows on which the action is to be applied and queries, based on the flow filter, the inventory store to identify a plurality of network entities in the set of network entities to which the user intent statement applies. The system generates a plurality of network policies that implement the user intent statement based on the plurality of network entities and the action and enforces the plurality network policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Nguyen, Abhishek Singh, Shih-Chun Chang, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Paul Mach, Rachita Agasthy, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra, Michael Watts, Sunil Gupta
  • Publication number: 20200389361
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for reporting to a network policy system. A network agent includes an agent enforcer and an agent controller. The agent enforcer is configured to implementing network policies on the system, access data associated with the implementation of the network policies on the system, and transmit, via an interprocess communication, the data to the agent controller. The agent controller is configured to generate a report including the data and transmit the report to a network policy system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hai Vu, Shih-Chun Chang, Varun Malhotra, Shashi Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Allen Chen, Praneeth Vallem, Rohit Prasad
  • Patent number: 10764141
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for reporting to a network policy system. A network agent includes an agent enforcer and an agent controller. The agent enforcer is configured to implementing network policies on the system, access data associated with the implementation of the network policies on the system, and transmit, via an interprocess communication, the data to the agent controller. The agent controller is configured to generate a report including the data and transmit the report to a network policy system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hai Vu, Shih-Chun Chang, Varun Malhotra, Shashi Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Allen Chen, Praneeth Vallem, Rohit Prasad
  • Publication number: 20200220780
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to intent driven network management. A system is configured to maintain an inventory store comprising records for a set of network entities in a network, wherein each network entity in the set of network entities is associated with a record in the inventory store. The system receives a user intent statement comprising an action and a flow filter representing network data flows on which the action is to be applied and queries, based on the flow filter, the inventory store to identify a plurality of network entities in the set of network entities to which the user intent statement applies. The system generates a plurality of network policies that implement the user intent statement based on the plurality of network entities and the action and enforces the plurality network policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Nguyen, Abhishek Singh, Shih-Chun Chang, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Paul Mach, Rachita Agasthy, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra, Michael Watts, Sunil Gupta
  • Publication number: 20200145291
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a network agent for generating platform specific network policies. A network agent is configured to receive a platform independent network policy from a network policy system, determine implementation characteristics of the network entity, generate platform specific policies from the platform independent network policy based on the implementation characteristics of the network entity, and implement the platform specific policies on the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Hai Vu, Shih-Chun Chang, Hoang Nguyen, Shashi Gandham, Navindra Yadav, Praneeth Vallem, Sunil Gupta, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra
  • Patent number: 10594560
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to intent driven network management. A system is configured to maintain an inventory store comprising records for a set of network entities in a network, wherein each network entity in the set of network entities is associated with a record in the inventory store. The system receives a user intent statement comprising an action and a flow filter representing network data flows on which the action is to be applied and queries, based on the flow filter, the inventory store to identify a plurality of network entities in the set of network entities to which the user intent statement applies. The system generates a plurality of network policies that implement the user intent statement based on the plurality of network entities and the action and enforces the plurality network policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Shashi Gandham, Hoang Nguyen, Abhishek Singh, Shih-Chun Chang, Navindra Yadav, Ali Parandehgheibi, Paul Mach, Rachita Agasthy, Ravi Prasad, Varun Malhotra, Michael Watts, Sunil Gupta