Vinod V Nair, 524105 Percheron Bnd, Cedar Park, TX 78613

6701324, Mar 2, 2004

Jun 30, 1999

09/345627

Stephen Thomas Cochran - Austin TX
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy - Austin TX
Michael Mallo - Austin TX
Vinod Thankappan Nair - Austin TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

7071041

A collector for distributed data collection includes input and output queues employed for priority based queuing and dispatch of data received from endpoints and downstream collector nodes. Collection Table of Contents (CTOC) data structures for collection data are received by the collector from the endpoints or downstream collectors and are placed in the input queue, then sorted by the priority within the CTOC. Within a given priority level, collection of the data is scheduled based on the activation time window within the CTOC, which specifies the period during which the endpoint or downstream collector node will be available to service data transfer requests. The collected data, in the form of data packs and constituent data segments, is stored in persistent storage (depot). A CTOC is then transmitted to the next upstream collector node. Network bandwidth utilization is managed by adjusting the activation time window specified within a CTOC and the route employed between source and recipient.

8396057, Mar 12, 2013

Dec 20, 2010

12/972714

Vinod T. Nair - Austin TX, US
Abhijeet J. Auradkar - Karnataka, IN
Arabinda Bose - Cedar Park TX, US
Koen J. Van De Weyer - Lokeren, BE

Alcatel Lucent - Paris

H04L 12/66

370352, 370229

A manner of managing selected CPE (customer premises equipment), UE (user equipments, or other subscriber device traffic in a communication system. A management traffic regulator is provided that inspects incoming management traffic from and determines whether it should be forwarded to a server. The determination is made by comparing the type of message to a rules and policy database, which in one embodiment prescribes which messages will be declined if the level of traffic being processed has reached a certain percentage of the systems maximum capacity.

2009029, Nov 26, 2009

Nov 21, 2008

12/276254

Neil Dholakia - Austin TX, US
Edward S. Pelley - Cedar Park TX, US
Thomas A. Palkot - Austin TX, US
Bryan P. Tacker - Austin TX, US
Vinod T. Nair - Austin TX, US
Micah K. Koch - Austin TX, US

Motive, Incorporated - Austin TX

G06F 15/16
G06N 5/02
G06F 3/048

706 47, 709203, 715764, 709223, 706 46

A service management system and method. In one embodiment, the service management system includes: (1) a service description repository configured to contain service descriptions that define services in terms of a set of systems and devices that assume roles based on at least one of capabilities and attributes thereof and (2) a service management engine coupled to the service description repository and configured to employ the service description repository and at least one of the systems to deliver a service corresponding to at least one of the service descriptions via at least one of the devices.

2012029, Nov 22, 2012

May 18, 2011

13/110374

Filip Humble - Mol, BE
Vinod T. Nair - Austin TX, US
Arabinda Bose - Cedar Park TX, US
Bahadir Danisik - Antwerpen, BE

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

G06F 15/173

709238

A method and apparatus for managing CPE devices. In managing a CPE, an ACS must first establish a communication session with the CPE. In accordance with the present invention, the connection request formed by the ACS and containing proxy information is transmitted to a primary blast box. The primary blast box, which includes a blast box registry, forwards the connection request to a plurality of secondary blast boxes, each secondary blast box being associated with a respective CGN private network of the communications network. The secondary blast boxes in turn removes the proxy information and forwards the connection request to one or more CPEs in the private network encompassed by the corresponding CGN. Authentication information sent with the proxy information uniquely permits authentication of the connection request in the target CPE. When authentication occurs, the CPE initiates a communication session with the ACS so that the desired management function may be executed.

2013009, Apr 18, 2013

Oct 17, 2011

13/274955

Jigang Yang - Cedar Park TX, US
Arabinda Bose - Cedar Park TX, US
Vinod T. Nair - Austin TX, US
Eivind Skildheim - Evergreen CO, US

Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

G06F 15/173

709226, 709223

A server architecture for, and method of, managing devices. In one embodiment, the server architecture includes: (1) a plurality of manager clusters and (2) a dispatcher cluster coupled to the plurality of manager clusters and configured to: (2a) receive an initial contact from a device, (2b) assign the device to one manager cluster of the plurality of manager clusters, the one manager cluster becoming a home cluster for the device, (2c) cause data regarding the device to be transferred to the home cluster and (2d) cause the device thereafter to communicate directly with, and be managed by, the home cluster.

2013012, May 23, 2013

Sep 14, 2012

13/616920

Vinod T. Nair - Austin TX, US
Arabinda Bosa - Cedar Park TX, US
Abhijeet J. Auradkar - Bangalore, IN
Padmakumar Subramani - Chenai, IN

Alcatel-Lucent India, Limited - Bangalore
Alcatel-Lucent USA, Incorporated - Murray Hill NJ

H04L 12/24
H04L 12/26
H04L 12/56

370229

A traffic regulation manager, a method of regulating basic management and supplemental traffic and a communication network operator architecture. In one embodiment, the traffic regulation manager includes: (1) a payload analyzer configured to receive management and supplemental information from customer premises equipment devices, examine payloads of packets bearing the management and supplemental information to identify the management session and, if a packet is bearing the supplemental information, forward the packet to a data collection manager, (2) a traffic prioritizer coupled to the payload analyzer and configured to receive the packets bearing the management information from the payload analyzer and prioritize the packets according to at least one criterion and (3) a traffic allocator coupled to the traffic prioritizer and configured to distribute management traffic representing new management sessions among management servers and packets representing existing management sessions to a management server already handling the existing management sessions.

2013026, Oct 10, 2013

Dec 27, 2012

13/728298

Arabinda Bose - Cedar Park TX, US
Gordon McKinney - Cedar Park TX, US
Vinod Nair - Austin TX, US
Bahadir Danisik - Antwerpen, BE
Filip Humble - Mol, BE
Robert Steven Farnum - Austin TX, US
Scott Pelley - Austin TX, US

H04L 29/06

709203

A method and apparatus for facilitating communications between a managing server and a client device. The managing server may be an ACS operable to configure a CPE to received connection request from an external server, which thereby brokers initiation of a communication session between the CPE and the ACS. The external server also preferably determines what type of connection request to use and provides configuration parameters to the ACS.

6374254, Apr 16, 2002

Jun 30, 1999

09/345626

Stephen Thomas Cochran - Austin TX
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy - Austin TX
Michael Mallo - Austin TX
Vinod Thankappan Nair - Austin TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1730

707102, 709102, 709201, 709232

The âscanâ phase of a distributed data collection process is decoupled from upload of the return collection data, with the âscanâ consisting merely of an infrequent profile push to configure autonomous scanners at the data collection endpoints. Distributed data collection is initiated by endpoints within the distributed network, which autonomously perform a scan and transmit a Collection Table of Contents (CTOC) data structure to a nearest available collector, then await a ready message from the collector. When ready to receive the return collection data, the collector signals the endpoint, which transfer the data collection in small packets to the collector. The collector stores the received data collection in persistent storage, then initiates collection to a higher collector or recipient in substantially the same manner as the endpoint. A routing manager controls the routing of data from endpoints through one or more collectors to the recipient. Scans for the data collection may thus be performed fully parallel, and upload of the collection data proceeds by direct channel under the control of the collectors.