Patents by Inventor Vibha Dayal

Vibha Dayal 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).

  • Method and apparatus for reestablishing network connections in a multi-router network
    Patent number: 6226684
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for routing network messages from a client to a server bypassing a router which requires that the router, in one embodiment, maintain a table to record where the client's communications were redirected in previous communications. This allows the router to reestablish an identical connection the next time the client needs to communicate with a server. Further, the router transmits a multicast message containing the redirection information to the other routers in the system allowing the other routers in the system to reestablish the same client-server connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Pointcast, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsin Sung, Vibha Dayal, Satish Ramakrishnan
  • Apparatus, method and article of manufacture for servicing client requests on a network
    Patent number: 6173311
    Abstract: A server services client requests in an improved manner by a utilizing a combination of sending an id of the last article that has been previously sent to the client, load balancing servers to provide efficient servicing of clients and providing redundant servers so that a failure of any one server does not result in the termination of server services to clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: PointCast, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory P. Hassett, Harry Collins, Vibha Dayal