Inventor

WARD DAVID D

US98 patents

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WARD DAVID D

CISCO TECH INC

Network service header metadata for load balancing

Seamless path monitoring and rapid fault isolation using bidirectional forwarding detection in a network environment

Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol (BGP) auto discovery

Encoding explicit paths as segment routing segment lists

System and methods for detecting network failure

Technique for graceful shutdown of a routing protocol in a network

Dynamic handling of multiple software component versions for device management

Advertisement of adjacency segment identifiers

Optimal route reflection using efficient border gate protocol best path selection

Method for implicit session routing

Loop prevention techniques using encapsulation manipulation of IP/MPLS field

Technique for enabling bidirectional forwarding detection between edge devices in a computer network

Inter-domain optimization trigger in PCE-based environment

Fast reroute (FRR) protection at the edge of a RFC 2547 network

Partial graceful restart for border gateway protocol (BGP)

Loop prevention techniques using encapsulation manipulation of IP/MPLS field

System and methods for network path detection

Segment routing—egress peer engineering (SP-EPE)

Label distribution protocol over segment routing

Seamless segment routing

Method of implementing a backup path in an autonomous system

Dynamic path protection in an optical network

System and method for speeding border gateway protocol graceful restart

Soft notification messaging for a routing protocol

Graceful shutdown of network resources in data networks

Server-side XML-based development environment for network device management applications

Segment routing over label distribution protocol

Triggered in-band operations, administration, and maintenance in a network environment

Segment routing into a label distribution protocol domain

Seamless segment routing

Segment routing over label distribution protocol

Connection verification for MPLS label switched paths and pseudowires

Connection verification for MPLS label switched paths and pseudowires

Technique for protecting against failure of a network element using multi-topology repair routing (MTRR)

Fast reroute (FRR) protection at the edge of a RFC 2547 network

Loop prevention technique for MPLS using service labels

Providing reachability information in a routing domain of an external destination address in a data communications network

Faster routing protocol convergence using efficient message markup

System and method for routing ISIS traffic through unidirectional links of a computer network

Method for dissemination of non-routing information using the IS-IS protocol

Method of constructing a backup path in an autonomous system

VASSEUR JEAN-PHILIPPE

Technique for selecting a path computation element

Inter-domain path computation technique

System and method for dynamically responding to event-based traffic redirection

Method and apparatus to compute local repair paths taking into account link resources and attributes

KATZ DAVID

Bidirectional forwarding detection

CISCO TECHNOLGY INC

Constructing a repair path in the event of non-availability of a routing domain

CISCO TECH IND

System and method for distributing route selection in an implementation of a routing protocol

FILSFILS CLARENCE

Technique for distinguishing between link and node failure using bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD)

SCUDDER JOHN GALEN

Technique for graceful shutdown of a routing protocol in a network