Inventor

SHARMA SAMAR

US106 patents

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SHARMA SAMAR

CISCO TECH INC

Line-rate selective load balancing of permitted network traffic

Utilizing user-specified access control lists in conjunction with redirection and load-balancing on a port

Anomaly detection for storage traffic in a data center

Discovery protocol for enabling automatic bootstrap and communication with a service appliance connected to a network switch

System and method for minimizing disruption from failed service nodes

Methods and apparatus for maintaining sets of ranges typically using an associative memory and for using these ranges to identify a matching range based on a query point or query range and to maintain sorted elements for use such as in providing priority queue operations

Identification of a longest matching prefix based on a search of intervals corresponding to the prefixes

Methods and apparatus for longest common prefix based caching

Assigning prefixes to associative memory classes based on a value of a last bit of each prefix and their use including but not limited to locating a prefix and for maintaining a Patricia tree data structure

Statistical collection in a network switch natively configured as a load balancer

Detection and enforcement of version compatibility in network devices

Methods and apparatus for improving network based virtualization performance

CIFS for scalable NAS architecture

Online restriping technique for distributed network based virtualization

Apparatus and methods for data tapping in a storage area network

Systems, methods, and apparatus for implementing agents in service appliances

High availability for intelligent applications in storage networks

Apparatus and methods for facilitating data tapping with host clustering in a storage area network

Node-specific probes in a native load balancer

Multifunctional network switch

Selective load balancing of network traffic

Load balancing methods based on transport layer port numbers for a network switch

Service-specific probes in a native load balancer

Highly-scalable virtual IP addresses in a load balancing switch

Simultaneous redirecting and load balancing

Route advertisement for native hardware-based virtual IP address (“VIP”) on layer 2/layer 3 switch

Statistical operations associated with network traffic forwarding

Online restriping technique for distributed network based virtualization

Adaptive load balancing

System and method for monitoring service nodes

System and method for automated policy-based routing

Route distribution for service appliances

Automated configuration of virtual port channels

Efficient method for packet switching on asynchronous transfer mode switch based platforms

Adjustable bit mask for high-speed native load balancing on a switch

Selective load balancing of network traffic

Adjustable bit mask for high-speed native load balancing on a switch

Service chaining segmentation analytics

Load balancing in a service chain

SHARMA SAMAR

Apparatus and methods for controlling a data tapping session in a storage area network

System and method for configuring service appliances as virtual line cards in a network environment

Mirroring mechanisms for storage area networks and network based virtualization

Fibre channel dynamic zoning

Virtual port based SPAN

High availability for intelligent applications in storage networks

CISCO TECH IND

Techniques for efficient memory management for longest prefix match problems

Methods and apparatus for mapping ranges of values into unique values of particular use for range matching operations using an associative memory

Efficient method for packet switching on asynchronous transfer mode switch based platforms

Techniques for efficient location of free entries for TCAM inserts

FENG CHAO

System and method for non-disruptive management of servers in a network environment