Network Configuration Determination Patents (Class 370/254)
  • Patent number: 11997746
    Abstract: A computing system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform that manages a managed network, and a software application associated with the platform. The software application may be configured to: obtain a unit of programmatic code from a third-party computing system, where the unit of programmatic code is hosted by the third-party computing system on behalf of the managed network, and where a program using the unit of programmatic code is executable by computing resources of the third-party computing system that are assigned on demand; parse the unit of programmatic code for a pattern indicative of respective relationships between the unit of programmatic code and service(s) provided by the third-party computing system; generate an association between the unit of programmatic code and the service(s); and store, in the database, representations of the unit of programmatic code, the service(s), and the association therebetween as discovered configuration items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Garty, Haviv Rosh, Noam Biran, Hail Tal
  • Patent number: 11997581
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to enabling direct wireless device-to-device communication between sleepy end devices (SEDs) of a mesh (e.g., Thread®) network. A router may forward packets between end devices of the mesh network. However, if the router is not available, SEDs may not be able to communicate with each other using a mesh protocol. Embodiments presented herein enable end devices of the mesh network to communicate directly, without a router. Some embodiments are directed to changing a role of an end device to temporarily act as a router for a particular target end device. The role change may be based on a trigger event and may be temporary until a target action is performed by the target end device. In some embodiments, the end devices continue to operate as SEDs and use coordinated sampled listening techniques to communicate via the mesh protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Sarvesh Kumar Varatharajan, Venkateswara Rao Manepalli, Yaranama Venkata Ramana Dass
  • Patent number: 11997498
    Abstract: A network architecture is disclosed for intrinsic cybersecurity of low-cost, low-complexity IoT devices such as single-task sensors and actuators. The IoT devices are configured in a star topology sub-network, in which a number of IoT “end devices” communicate exclusively with a single “hub device” that manages the sub-network. The hub device is also connected to a larger network such as a 5G or 6G network. Each end device makes a measurement or operates an actuator on instructions from the hub device, and transmits data results back to the hub device, which then transmits the results (or a summary thereof) up to the base station of the larger network. Thus the larger network is relieved of responsibility for routine managing of the end devices, since the hub device does that. Also the larger network is protected from cyberattacks by configuring each end device to boot and execute from ROM, and other features described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11997011
    Abstract: A virtual port group abstraction can facilitate automated configuration of devices in a data center. For example, a data center administrator can define a virtual port group to include a set of logical and physical interfaces for devices allocated to a particular department or other group within a company. An administrator for the department can then utilize a user interface to perform actions with respect to the virtual port group. The actions can include configuration actions, modeling actions and/or deployment actions. An action received by a network management controller such as a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controller can be converted into the appropriate actions for the relevant logical and physical interfaces that are configured to be part of the virtual port group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacopo Pianigiani, Tong Jiang, Sukhdev S. Kapur, Atul S Moghe
  • Patent number: 11997126
    Abstract: Dynamic Software Defined Networking (DSDN) systems and methods provide secure and isolated subnetworks within a larger network. Each subnetwork may be formed with varied policies and communication restrictions based on at least device type, device grouping, and risk level. The DSDN systems and methods may also be applied to form a network, with or without subnetworks, of devices that are spatially separated, thereby reducing the attack surface of the DSDN-formed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Glenn
  • Patent number: 11994996
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods for routing requests and responses targeting a shared resource. A queue in a communication fabric is located in a path between the requesters and a shared resource. In some embodiments, the shared resource is a shared address translation cache stored in an endpoint. The physical channel between the queue and the shared resource supports multiple virtual channels. The queue assigns at least one entry to each virtual channel of a group of virtual channels where the group includes a virtual channel for each address translation request type from a single requester of the multiple requesters. When the at least one entry for a given requester is de-allocated, the queue allocates this entry only with requests from the assigned virtual channel even if the empty entry is the only available entry of the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventor: Kostantinos Danny Christidis
  • Patent number: 11991296
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a check-in request at a server of a consent management platform from a content-presentation device. The request may by or include an authentication certificate for establishing a secure communicative connection. A device token cryptographically-signed by the server, a global identifier (GID) unique to the content-presentation device, and a device-based device record may be received over the secure communicative connection. The server may retrieve a server-based device record for the device from a flat database using the GID as an index key, and then compare a device-based sequence number in the device-based device record with a server-based sequence number in the server-based device record. If the sequence numbers match, the server may send a check-in complete message to the content-presentation. If the sequence numbers do not match, the server may initiate a synchronization procedure with the content-presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Paul Johnson, Peter William Ellison, Matthew Jorgensen, George Earl Harvey, Kurt Roman Thielen
  • Patent number: 11991558
    Abstract: A wireless communication network serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) over a working network slice and a protect network slice. The wireless communication network receives UE capability data from the wireless UE that indicates the working network slice and the protect network slice. The wireless communication network determines UE context for the working network slice and for the protect network slice. The wireless communication network exchanges initial user data with the wireless UE over the working network slice based on the UE context. The wireless communication network exchanges additional user data with the wireless UE over the protect network slice based on the UE context when performance of the working network slice triggers a slice switch based on the UE context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Anurag Thantharate, Sougata Saha
  • Patent number: 11991049
    Abstract: A communication method includes receiving, by a second data analytics network element, a status analytics output of a target object from a first data analytics network element. The target object includes one or more of a network device, a sub-domain of a network, an all-domain of a network, or a terminal device. The communication method also includes obtaining, by the second data analytics network element based on the status analytics output of the target object, first input data corresponding to a target type of analytics. The status analytics output of the target object indicates that the target object is in an abnormal state, indicating that the first input data does not comprise data corresponding to the target object. The communication method further includes generating, by the second data analytics network element based on the first input data, a first analytics output corresponding to the target type of analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiwei Chong, Yang Xin
  • Patent number: 11991763
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for sidelink connection request based on congestion level for establishing a direct connection between wireless devices is provided. A first wireless device triggers a signaling procedure based on a congestion level of at least one carrier, selects a carrier among the at least one carrier, and transmits a message in the signaling procedure on the selected carrier. Upon receiving the message, a second wireless device may perform carrier reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Taehun Kim, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11991582
    Abstract: This application provides a terminal identification method and an apparatus, and relates to the communications field. The terminal identification method includes: a communications device generates and sends a data packet; and after receiving the data packet, a network device determines, based on terminal information included in an internet protocol (IP) packet header of the data packet, a terminal type of a terminal corresponding to the terminal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ligang Feng, Shuping Peng
  • Patent number: 11985055
    Abstract: Hop counts can be determined in a variety of network segments using packet headers collected at boundaries of the segments. Agents executing on network devices are used to transmit packet header data, including a TTL budget, to a collector server computer. The collector server computer can discern signal (production flows) from noise (traceroutes and probing traffic), detecting packets that are at risk of being dropped due to TTL expiration. Alerts can be generated for packet flows with a dangerously low remaining TTL budget, which are at high risk of expiring due to operational events resulting in traffic temporarily traversing slightly longer paths. Source addresses can be identified for such packet flows and network devices through which the packet flows are traversing can be identified. Hop counts can then be computed for different network segments, such as an Internet segment, a backbone segment and a data center segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Sameh George Alphonse Saad
  • Patent number: 11983188
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for network and obsolescence management. In one embodiment, a platform device is provided including a real-time system interface module (RSIM), a database module (DBM), a logic control module (LCM) and a reporting module (RM). The platform device collects data for network elements, systems, devices and network services, and examines the network elements and network service to generate a network obsolescence report. The platform device may output an obsolescence report including one or more obsolescence measurements. Processes are also provided for network and obsolescence management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Soloman M. Almadi
  • Patent number: 11985614
    Abstract: A cell transmits synchronization signal blocks (SSB) to a user equipment (UE) for the UE to synchronize with the cell. The cell configures a discovery reference signal (DRS) window for synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission to a user equipment (UE), determines that a channel in an unlicensed spectrum is not occupied and transmits multiple SSBs to the UE in response to determining that the channel in the unlicensed spectrum is not occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11984034
    Abstract: Various methods and devices for positioning autonomous agents including verifying a reported agent location using physical attributes of the received signal; improving agent formation for iterative localization; selecting agents for distributed task sharing; intelligent beacon-placement for group localization; relative heading and orientation determination utilizing time of flight; and secure Instrument Landing System (ILS) implementation for unmanned agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dibyendu Ghosh, Vinayak Honkote, Kerstin Johnsson, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Ganeshram Nandakumar, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Karthik Narayanan, Alexander Pyattaev, Feng Xue
  • Patent number: 11985716
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for interacting with an electronic device. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to initiating action(s) using an interface configured to control operation of IoT devices. A network device may be detected. Information for the network may be received. Capabilities of the network may be determined. An interface module may facilitate display of a network device interface. A control object may facilitate control of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BELKIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Yong Kim, Venkata Subba Rao Pathuri
  • Patent number: 11985064
    Abstract: A detection mechanism is disclosed for identifying peers transmitting network traffic towards a cloud provider using routing prefixes that were not advertised for that peer. Once detected, an alarm condition can occur and the peer notified to remove any static route configurations. In one embodiment, a collector server computer can be used to acquire routing prefixes advertised to a peer. A second server computer can be used to obtain network traffic received from the peer. A comparison can then be made between the advertised prefixes and the network traffic being received. If network traffic is being received for unadvertised prefixes, then an alarm condition can occur. The detection mechanism can regularly inspect active traffic flows against BGP route advertisements at fixed intervals. For peers that are identified that are not in compliance with route advertisements, the alarm condition can occur for follow-up remediation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Estefania Morales Hernandez, Ahmed Negm, Thomas Bradley Scholl, Suresh Ambalavanan, Keerthi Krishnan, Michael W. Palladino, Valentin Iulian Neacsu, Fiachra John Groarke
  • Patent number: 11985212
    Abstract: A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BRIGHT DATA LTD.
    Inventors: Derry Shribman, Ofer Vilenski
  • Patent number: 11979292
    Abstract: Network rules established on a device can establish communication protocol between applications running on the device and interfaces connected to the device. For example, a network rule can establish which application(s) can access which interface(s), and when an application is not assigned to an interface, the application is not granted network access to the interface(s). In some instances, interfaces can be aggregated together to create an aggregation (e.g., link aggregation or a bridge aggregation), thus allowing the network rule to use the aggregation for multiple applications. An aggregation, such as a link aggregation, can be established as a shared rule that allows access to the interface by multiple applications. Alternatively, an aggregation, such as a bridge aggregation, can be established as a reserve rule that permits only a particular application, and no other application(s), access to the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark McConnaughay, Ronald Andrew Frederick, Szaniszlo Tyler Szepesi
  • Patent number: 11979430
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a telemetry exporter in a network establishes a tunnel between the telemetry exporter and a traffic analysis service. The telemetry exporter obtains packet copies of a plurality of packets sent between devices via the network. The telemetry exporter forms a set of traffic telemetry data by discarding at least a portion of one or more of the packet copies, based on a filter policy. The telemetry exporter applies compression to the formed set of traffic telemetry data. The telemetry exporter sends, via the tunnel, the compressed set of traffic telemetry data to the traffic analysis service for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
  • Patent number: 11979281
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing a network. In one example, a device configuration manager is configured to generate, in accordance with a device management protocol, a configuration change request representing a transaction having a first sub-transaction specifying a first configuration change for a network device of the network and a second sub-transaction specifying a second configuration change for the same network device. The device configuration manager is further configured to output the configuration change request to the network device and receive a reply message from the network device. The reply message includes a first response element specifying whether the first configuration change is successfully committed at the network device and a second response element specifying whether the second configuration change is successfully committed at the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar A, Nirmal Anburose, Jayanthi R
  • Patent number: 11979338
    Abstract: A method and system for cellular network data storage and forwarding are provided. The method includes receiving storage-and-forward data from an application server, wherein the storage-and-forward data is directed to a device connected in a cellular network, wherein the device operates in at least a sleep state and a wakeup state; caching the received storage-and-forward data in a memory; checking if the device is currently in the wakeup state; and forwarding the cached storage-and-forward data to the device when the device is in the wakeup state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FLO LIVE ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventor: Shmulik Bezalel
  • Patent number: 11979814
    Abstract: A method of enabling a publisher mesh node to update a number of hops that is to be used for communication between said publisher mesh node and a subscriber mesh node in a wireless mesh network, wherein said method comprises the steps of periodically receiving, by said subscriber mesh node, broadcasted messages from said publisher mesh node, wherein said broadcasted messages comprise a number of hops that said broadcasted messages may traverse in said mesh network, determining, by said subscriber mesh node, that one or more periodically broadcasted messages have not been received, transmitting, by said subscriber mesh node in reply to said determination that one or more periodically broadcasted messages have not been received, a probe message to said publisher mesh node, wherein said probe message comprises a number of hops corresponding to a periodically broadcasted message that was received by said subscriber mesh node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Jingcheng Zhang, Per Elmdahl, Wei Shen
  • Patent number: 11979923
    Abstract: A software-implemented method for assisting in handling of connection setup requests in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method includes intercepting a connection setup request from a user equipment (UE) to a control node of a radio access network part of the telecommunications network, determining whether the connection setup request is to be fulfilled based at least on information regarding resource use within a network access point serving the UE, and passing the connection setup request for further processing within the telecommunications network only upon positive determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Rudolf Strijkers, Shuang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11979268
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided, where a respective reference signal associated with each of one or more downlink transmit antenna ports in a wireless communication network is received. A value is determined for each of one or more measurable characteristics relative to each of the received reference signals. One or more parameters are received, the parameters including one or more adjustments, where each adjustment is specific to one of the downlink transmit antenna ports and include adjustments in the form of one or more respective offset values to be applied to at least some of the one or more determined values of the measurable characteristics of the received reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Joachim Löhr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Vijay Nangia, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love
  • Patent number: 11979757
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for demand-based dynamic carrier scaling. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: determining, at a gateway supporting dynamically created cells in a wireless network, whether there is a requirement for additional capacity; when there is a requirement for additional capacity, then providing, by the gateway, dynamically created cells as needed to handle the requirement for additional capacity; determining, at the gateway, whether there is a requirement for less capacity; and when there is a requirement for less capacity, then turning off, by the gateway, dynamically created cells as needed to handle the requirement for less capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 11979255
    Abstract: when packets are received via any one of the plurality of inflow VRFs provided for respective route patterns, a chaining edge router (10) redirects the packets to a chain VRF corresponding to the inflow VRF. The chaining edge router (10) transfers the packets redirected to the chain VRF to respective functions via a communication path constructed using a VLAN in advance according to a route pattern corresponding to the chain VRF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takeaki Nishioka, Hiroshi Osawa, Satomi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11979318
    Abstract: The present application relates to egressing traffic from a public cloud network. An egress traffic manager configures routing at hosts and edge routers within the public cloud network. The egress traffic manager determines, for an edge router, a plurality of current border gateway protocol (BGP) sessions with external networks. The egress traffic manager configures a virtual router hosted on the edge router to route a portion of egress traffic to a selected one of the external networks via one of the BGP sessions. A host is configured to route the portion of egress traffic within the public cloud network to the edge router. An edge router configured to route, by the virtual router, the portion of egress traffic from the edge router to the selected one of the external networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Udupa, Sharad Agarwal, Ryan Andrew Beckett, Rachee Singh, Paramvir Bahl
  • Patent number: 11973766
    Abstract: Techniques for identity management, and more particularly, to techniques for dynamically assigning membership to users in the system based on dynamic rules. In one aspect a computer-implement method is provided that breaks down the processing from a single large thread or operation into multiple minutest level threads or operations and makes use of event driven architecture used in distributed environments such as a cloud environment, to achieve a scalable model and can work seamlessly for multi-tenant applications. Every sub problem is assigned to a dedicated set of subscribers on a messaging service for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isha Chawla, Ashish Bhargava
  • Patent number: 11974169
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating communicative connection for a user device are disclosed. Based on a request for communicative connection, a communication facilitator identifies a set of candidate communications service providers (CSPs) to match the request, provides information regarding the set of candidate CSPs to the user device, receives an indication of selection, and causes establishment of communicative connection for the user device via a communications service provided by the selected CSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Wireless L.L.C.
    Inventors: Scott Dotto, Ankur Kumar, Swaroop Raju, Nathan Hare, Nereus Osric Edwin Lobo
  • Patent number: 11973851
    Abstract: A method of establishing streams within a QUIC connection implemented by a first network device, comprising: transmitting a first open message through the QUIC connection to a second network device, the first open message identifying a protocol; receiving a second open message through the QUIC connection from the second network device in response to transmitting the first open message, the second open message identifying the protocol; and establishing a first stream between the first network device and the second network device within the QUIC connection for the protocol identified in the first open message and in the second open message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingzhen Qu, Alvaro Retana
  • Patent number: 11973568
    Abstract: A method for performing monitoring, commissioning, upgrading, analyzing, load balancing, remediating, and optimizing the operation, control, and maintenance of a plurality of remotely located RF signal repeater devices in a wireless network arranged to operate as an Internet of Things (IoT) network. Electronic RF signal repeater devices are employed as elements in the wireless network and communicate wireless radio frequency (RF) signals for a plurality of users. An RF signal repeater device may be arranged to operate as a donor unit device that provides RF signal communication between one or more remotely located wireless base stations, or other donor unit devices on the wireless network. Also, an RF signal repeater device may be arranged to operate as a service unit device that provides wireless RF signal communication between one or more user equipment devices (UEs) and a donor unit device or a wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Pivotal Commware, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric James Black, Mersad Cavcic, Brian Mark Deutsch, Alexander Remley Katko, Juan Pablo Olivo González, Christophe Jean Marcel Vidal
  • Patent number: 11973661
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer system that includes a memory electronically coupled to a processor system. The processor system is operable to perform processor system operations that include accessing a graph model representation of a computer network. The graph model is used to implement a resiliency-problem identification analysis that identifies a set of resiliency problems in the graph model. The graph model is used to apply a resiliency-problem solution analysis to a resiliency problem in the set of resiliency problems to generate a set of resiliency-problem solutions. Each resiliency-problem solution in the set of resiliency-problem solutions is ranked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Downes Griffin, Stephen Buckley, Eric Kevin Butler, Divyesh Jadav, Rakesh Jain
  • Patent number: 11968132
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using queue pair 1 (QP1) for receiving multicast based announcements in multiple partitions in a high performance computing. In accordance with an embodiment, by extending the scope of QP1 to also include receiving and sending multicast packets in any partition defined for the port, it is possible to implement generic MC based announcement and discovery without requiring the complexity of unique QPs for individual partitions, nor any update of QP configuration as a consequence of change of partition membership.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bjørn Dag Johnsen, Line Holen, Dag Georg Moxnes
  • Patent number: 11968110
    Abstract: A method for providing cloud network reachability analysis includes receiving a reachability query requesting a reachability status of a target including a packet header associated with a data packet. The packet header includes a source IP address and a destination IP address. The method also includes generating one or more simulated forwarding paths for the data packet based on the packet header using a data plane model. Each simulated forwarding path includes corresponding network configuration information. The method includes determining the reachability status of the target based on the one or more simulated forwarding paths and providing the determined reachability status and the one or more simulated forwarding paths to a user device associated with the reachability query which causes the user device to present the network configuration information for each simulated forwarding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hui Liu, Leslie Choong, Hongkun Yang, Shishir Agrawal, Raj Yavatkar, Tianqiong Luo, Gargi Adhav, Steffen Smolka
  • Patent number: 11968128
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for transmitting a piece of digital content consisting of a plurality of data packets to a mobile terminal (10), via a communication network (20), in which a management device (30) implements the obtaining (E11, E23, F8, F33), from the communication network, of at least one piece of information related to the bandwidth available on at least one link of the network to the mobile terminal, the selection (E12, E24, F10, F34), depending on said piece of information related to the bandwidth, of an encoding rate (RES) to use for at least one of said data packets, and the sending (E14, E25, F16, F38), to a device intended to provide the digital content (41), of a message indicating the selected encoding rate, in order to instruct the equipment intended to provide the digital content (41) to transmit, to the mobile terminal, at least one of the data packets, encoded with the selected encoding rate, on one of the network links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventor: Ghida Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 11963248
    Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a UE. The instructions configure the UE for small data transmission (SDT) in a 5G NR network and cause the UE to perform operations comprising detecting while in an RRC_Inactive state, a radio link failure during a first SDT of UL data to a base station. A secure key for a second SDT is generated based on the radio link failure. A configuration message including an indication of the second SDT is transmitted to the base station. A response message including a UL grant is received from the base station. The UL data is encoded for the second SDT using the secure key. The second SDT is performed using the UL grant while the UE is in the RRC_Inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sudeep K. Palat, Yi Guo, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Sangeetha L. Bangolae, Ansab Ali, Seau S. Lim, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 11962433
    Abstract: A switch device includes a plurality of communication ports; a switch unit configured to relay a frame, which has been transmitted from a function unit and to which information including an ID of a VLAN is added, to another function unit via a communication port; and a duplication unit configured to, when the diagnosis device is connected to another switch device, duplicate the frame to be relayed via a designated communication port among the plurality of communication ports, and generate a duplicate frame for diagnosis that is a frame obtained by adding, to a duplicate frame obtained through the duplication, specific information indicating that the duplicate frame for diagnosis should be transmitted to the diagnosis device. The switch unit outputs the duplicate frame for diagnosis generated by the duplication unit from a communication port corresponding to the other switch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Iwata, Tatsuya Izumi, Hirofumi Urayama, Tadashi Matsumoto, Darmawan Go, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Masashi Amesara, Hisashi Furukawa, Shu Ishizuka, Hideki Goto
  • Patent number: 11962603
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing a routing protocol of a telecommunications network are provided. In one embodiment, a method for enhancing the Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) routing protocol is provided. The method includes receiving a packet from a first peer device on a network; determining whether a mismatch exists in an authentication of the packet from the first peer device; and responsive to an authentication mismatch, sending a flush instruction to a plurality of peer devices on the network to remove any link state packets from the first peer device. The plurality of peer devices are configured to remove all link state packets from the first peer device regardless of a type of authentication and a type of mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventor: Navjot Sharma
  • Patent number: 11962488
    Abstract: Supporting Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) subflows using multipath links, and more specifically supporting MPTCP subflows using Wi-Fi Multi-Link Operation (MLO) or cellular multi-link support may be provided. A multipath link may be established between an Access Point (AP) and a station (STA). The STA may mark the multipath link as Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) capable. Next, a request for an addition of a MPTCP subflow may be received. In response to receiving the request, the MPTCP subflow may be bound to the multipath link, and data from the MPTCP subflow may be sent over the multipath link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 11962497
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein provide a method and systems for installing routes by a route reflect (RR) device when the tunnel RIB of the RR device does not include any tunnel labels definitions. The unicast routing information base (RIB) of route reflector (RR) device is configured to include a next hop associated with a first network device. When the RR device receives a route from the first network device that comprises a tunnel label for reaching the second network device, the RR device resolves the next hop of the received route using the unicast RIB of the RR device. In response to the resolving, the RR device forwards the route to a third network device (e.g., identified by an export route target of the RR device).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Saurav Arora, Akshay Gattani, Sandeep Betha, Sharad Birmiwal
  • Patent number: 11961074
    Abstract: A method performed by a trusted network device and a network device for transmitting a trusted state representation of a state of a DLT network to one or more network devices is described. The trusted network device determines a state indicator. The state indicator is a representation of a state of the DLT network at a given time. The trusted network device transmits to one or more network devices a beacon message including the state indicator. The beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with the trusted network device. The state indicator is to be used by the one or more network devices as a trusted current state of the DLT network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Santeri Paavolainen, Abu Shohel Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11963241
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may establish a cellular connection with a base station associated with a cellular radio network. The UE may receive an access policy of the cellular radio network identifying an access preference rule for the UE to adopt for connections to a core network function of the cellular radio network, the access preference rule indicating for the UE to preferentially connect to the core network function via a non-cellular radio network. The UE may determine that a gateway between the non-cellular radio network and the core network function of the cellular radio network is not configured. The UE may determine that a gateway selection policy of the cellular radio network is not configured. The UE may establish a connection to a legacy core network function of a legacy cellular radio network via a legacy gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Zhang, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Tom Chin, Youjun Fan
  • Patent number: 11954058
    Abstract: An extended peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device includes a host PCIe fabric comprising a host root complex. The host PCIe fabric has a first set of bus numbers and a first memory mapped input/output (MMIO) space on a host CPU. An extended PCIe fabric includes a root complex endpoint (RCEP) as part of an endpoint of the host PCIe fabric. The extended PCIe fabric has a second set of bus numbers and a second MMIO space separate from the first set of bus numbers and the first MMIO space, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wesley Shao
  • Patent number: 11956311
    Abstract: A computer device in a network receives data units sent by a remote computer device over a network link in a sequenced order. A traffic monitor evaluates traffic on the network link, and selectively sends congestion notifications in response to determining that certain data units sent by the remote computer device have been received or will likely be received out of the sequenced order. The notifications cause the remote computer device to pause sending further data units. An ingress processor, separate from a central processing unit (CPU) of the computer device, detects a header segment of a received data unit and a corresponding payload segment of the received data unit. A storage controller stores the header segment of the received data unit in a first memory location, and stores the payload segment of the received data unit in a second memory location separate from the first memory location. The second memory location corresponds to a next location in a storage queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
    Inventor: Igor Russkikh
  • Patent number: 11956319
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may establish one or more protocol data unit (PDU) sessions via a radio access network (RAN) node. The WTRU may transition to an inactive state. The WTRU may send a connection resume message to a RAN node that indicates a request to resume the established plurality of PDU sessions via the RAN node. The WTRU may receive a message from the RAN node. For example, the RAN node may send a message indicating a subset of the plurality of PDU sessions that are available upon resuming a connection with the RAN node. The WTRU may deactivate at least one established PDU session of the plurality of PDU sessions based on the received message from the RAN node that indicates at least one established PDU session not being included in the subset of the plurality of PDU sessions that are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shi, Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11956207
    Abstract: An approach includes providing support multi-tenancy support on a DHCP protocol. The approach includes receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) packet, inserting a tenant-specific option information within the DHCP packet, and transmitting the DHCP packet with the tenant-specific option information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Liang Rong, Gang Tang, Zi J. Tao, Ming S. Xian
  • Patent number: 11956211
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for limiting exposure of internal network operations beyond the boundary of a secure network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Weining Wu, Kunal Marwah, Jinhai Yang, Xu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11956339
    Abstract: A process control system (PCS) includes a cable connection including physical cables including a first cable for connecting between a process controller and an I/O access device, and an independent second cable for connecting the process controller and a second node being the I/O access device or another device. The I/O access device is for coupling to I/O module(s) to receive an output of the I/O access device. An output of the I/O module is coupled to a field device coupled to processing equipment. The process controller and I/O access device each include a processor and memory that implement send and receive logic for communicating using any of multiple redundancy protocols including a first and a second redundant protocol. The cable connection is for supporting simultaneously communicating between the process controller and the second node utilizing both the first redundant protocol and the second redundant protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Harshal S. Haridas, Joseph Pradeep Felix, Jay William Gustin, Paul Francis Mclaughlin, Jason Thomas Urso
  • Patent number: 11956837
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communication are described. A computing device may send data to a plurality of network devices. A coordinator device may receive, or monitor, the data received by the plurality of network devices from the computing device. The coordinator device may determine that one or more of the plurality of network devices are to process additional data received from the computing device. The coordinator device may cause the remaining network devices of the plurality of network devices to discard or disregard, for an amount of time, additional data received from the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Gladish, Anil Katragadda, Giridhar Nelapati