Patents by Inventor Zhifang Ni

Zhifang Ni 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).

  • Apparatus, system, and method for resequencing packets
    Patent number: 9363209
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example and includes receiving a plurality of packets; identifying whether a particular packet, of the plurality of packets, is part of a sequenced flow; identifying whether a particular sequence number of the particular packet is being received within a time window; identifying whether the particular packet was a next expected packet for a particular flow; and forwarding the particular packet to a next destination. In more particular embodiments, packet inspection is used to set one or more flags for identifying characteristics associated with the plurality of packets. Certain packets in non-sequenced flows are routed directly from an input interface to an output interface of a resequencer module using a flow-through packet path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Glendon Leo Akins, III, Gale L. Shallow, Charaf Hanna, Andrew Graham Whitlow, Zhifang Ni, Benjamin Nelson Darby, Maynard Darvel Hammond