Lead Inventor on the following Patents
US Patent 10,616,068
Identification of networking component application programming interfaces
Why: As Software Defined Networking was deployed normal SNMP methods of component Discovery and Identification were not available. This work applies to another use case.
US Patent 10,116,547
Coverage policy-based testing in computer networks
Why: Network Management is great if it monitors what it SHOULD. This work provides an objective way to measure the success of monitoring operations via a coverage metric.
US Patent 10,084,657
Normalized software-defined networking interface
Why: Software Defined Networking is still a rapidly evolving technology with myriads of interfaces and less mature standards. This work presents a generalized interface for monitoring.
US Patent 10,057,112
Fault detection of service chains in a SDN/NFV network environment
Why: Service Chaining in Network Function Virtualization are highly dynamic and present great challenges to traditional discovery based inventory monitoring. This presents an alternative.
US Patent 10,003,498
Efficient management of network configuration-dependent network functionality
Why: The strength of Software Defined Networks is their ability to very rapidly reconfigure themselves. This is a problem for any management solution. This work introduces a notification mechanism to automate and expedite monitoring of new inventory.
US Patent 9,960,968
Identification of networking component application programming interfaces
Why: As Software Defined Networking was being deployed normal SNMP methods of component Discovery and Identification were not available. This work presents an alternative.
US Patent 9,265,320
Why: Monitoring Network Quality of Service metrics is extremely expensive due to their scale. This work provides ways to scale the monitoring cost to what matters to the environment.
US Patent 8,307,050
System and method for intelligent service assurance in network management
Why:: The verification of Network Management accuracy in view of myriads of network configurations is extremely difficult. This proposes automated ways to implement test cases.
US Patent 7,770,223
Method and apparatus for security management via vicarious network devices
Why: Ubiquitous computer networks make them a target for the bad guys. This work presents simulated networks acting as honey pots to lure cyber crime to attacking the fake network.
US Patent 7,620,535
Method and apparatus for the simulation of computer networks
Why: Networks and Network Management are accelerating in complexity and scale. There is a need to test complex large scale systems before the huge investment in deployment.