Patents by Inventor William Beebee, JR.

William Beebee, JR. 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).

  • Automatically identifying an edge-facing router
    Patent number: 8917737
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically identifying an edge-facing router in a network are provided. In one technique, a DHCP message is obtained at a router of a subscriber network. An options field of the DHCP message is identified. The options field of the DHCP message is analyzed to determine whether data in the options field indicates that first router is SP-facing. If it is determined that the router is an SP-facing router, then identification data that identifies the router as an SP-facing router is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemant Singh, William Beebee, Jr., Ralph Droms, Ole Troan
  • AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AN EDGE-FACING ROUTER
    Publication number: 20140044012
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically identifying an edge-facing router in a network are provided. In one technique, a DHCP message is obtained at a router of a subscriber network. An options field of the DHCP message is identified. The options field of the DHCP message is analyzed to determine whether data in the options field indicates that first router is SP-facing. If it is determined that the router is an SP-facing router, then identification data that identifies the router as an SP-facing router is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemant Singh, William Beebee, JR., Ralph Droms, Ole Troan
  • Automatically identifying an edge-facing router
    Patent number: 8576857
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically identifying an edge-facing router in a network are provided. In one technique, data is obtained at a first router of a subscriber network. The data may be included in a DHCP message or a NDP RA message. The first router determines, based on the data, whether the first router is a service provider (SP)-facing router, which is a router that is coupled to a SP router and no other router in the subscriber network is logically between the SP-facing router and the SP router. If it is determined that the first router is an SP-facing router, then the first router stores identification data that identifies the first router as an SP-facing router. Otherwise, the first router stores identification data that identifies the first router as a non-SP-facing router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemant Singh, William Beebee, Jr., Ralph Droms, Ole Troan
  • AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AN EDGE-FACING ROUTER
    Publication number: 20110182295
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically identifying an edge-facing router in a network are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Hemant Singh, William Beebee, JR., Ralph Droms, Ole Troan