Cisco Patent Applications

DETERMINING LOCATION OF A BACKSCATTER DEVICE

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380539
Determining location of a Backscatter Devices (BKD) may be provided. A first quadrant of the first AP where the BKD is potentially located based on a first signal level, a second signal level, and a third signal level. A second quadrant of a second AP where the BKD is potentially located may be determined. A third quadrant of a third AP where the BKD is potentially located may be determined. A location of the BKD may be determined at an intersection of the first quadrant, the second…

AMBIENT POWER BACKSCATTER EXCITATION EXTENSION FOR PHYSICAL LAYER PROTOCOL DATA UNITS

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380535
Physical Layer Protocol Data Units (PPDUs) with an extension and specifically PPDUs with an extension for Ambient Power (AMP) Backscatter Device (BKD) excitation may be provided. A PPDU with an AMP BKD excitation extension can include an AMP BKD excitation extension field indicating the version and duration of the AMP BKD excitation extension. A method for providing the PPDU with the AMP BKD excitation extension includes generating the PPDU with the AMP BKD excitation extension and the…

BACKSCATTER DEVICE ONBOARDING

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380481
Backscatter Device (BKD) onboarding may be provided. BKD onboarding may begin with an AP receiving an identifier associated with a BKD. The AP may determine to onboard the BKD and transmit to the BKD an onboarding excitation signal to request data from a memory bank of the BKD. The AP may then receive a response to the onboarding excitation signal from the BKD. The AP may verify the BKD is valid based on the identifier and the response. Finally, the AP may onboard the BKD based on…

ENHANCEMENTS OF MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATION NULL-STEERING BY INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380459
Enhancing Multi-Access Point (AP) Coordination (MAPC) null-steering may be provided. Enhancing null-steering may include sending a coordination request for MAPC. A coordination response may be received from one or more APs. A Channel State Information (CSI) request may then be sent. CSI of one or more clients associated with the one or more APs may be received. Next, one or more precoder and decoder matrices may be determined based on the CSI of the one or more clients. The one or more…

Coordinated Customization of Harvesting Conditions to Ambient Power Devices

Granted: November 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240380249
Coordinated customization of harvesting conditions to ambient power devices may be provided. receive Radio Frequency (RF) characteristics associated with a backscatter communication device may be received. Based on the RF characteristics and a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) from the backscatter communication device, it may be determined that the computing device has an ability to charge the backscatter communication device to at least meet a predetermined energy need of the…

QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) TRANSLATION

Granted: November 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240373293
Quality of Service (QOS) translation may be provided. An identifier of a client device and an indication that the client device supports translation between a Quality of Service (QOS) treatment in a first wireless protocol and a QoS treatment in a second wireless protocol may be received from the first client device. Then a QoS level associated with the client device in the first wireless protocol may be determined. Next, the QoS level associated with the client device in the first…

IMPLEMENTING POLICY BASED ON UNIQUE ADDRESSES OR PORTS

Granted: November 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240372896
Techniques for binding communication flows to unique addresses and/or ports, and configuring networking devices internal to a network to apply policy without the need to further introspect a given stream. Further, by creating mappings of unique addresses and/or ports to flows, the network devices are able to enforce policy without needing to coordinate with an edge node of the network at which the communication session terminates. Further, the techniques may include providing an SDN…

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTION OF NETWORK DEVICE DURING INCREASE IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION

Granted: November 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240369985
In one embodiment, a method includes initiating a protection mode at a network device having a protective cover installed to filter airflow entering a network device, reducing one or more of a fan speed, processing functions, or power at the network device, exiting the protection mode upon removal of the protective cover from the network device, and increasing one or more of the fan speed, the processing functions, or the power to resume normal operation at the network device.

WAVEGUIDE INTEGRATED PHOTODIODE

Granted: October 31, 2024
Application Number: 20240361523
In part, in one aspect, the disclosure relates to a photodiode. The photodiode may include a substrate; a semiconductor layer comprising an semiconductor material, the semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and in communication with at least a region of the substrate, the semiconductor layer having a first side, a second side, and an upper surface, the semiconductor layer having a height; a semiconductor structure partially disposed on the upper surface, the semiconductor…

ENHANCED MULTI-LINK OPERATION (MLO) FOR CLIENT DISTRESS OPERATION

Granted: October 31, 2024
Application Number: 20240365198
Enhanced Multi-Link Operation (MLO) for client distress operation may be provided. It may be determined that a client device is approaching an edge of a cell. A list of Access Points (APs) that the client device may hear may then be received from the client device. Next, a plurality of APs may be selected from the list. Then a rescue channel to be used by the plurality of APs may be orchestrated. The client device may then be caused to transmit on the rescue channel to the plurality of…

SELECTION OF A PAIRWISE MASTER KEY (PMK) CACHING METHOD IN A WIRELESS DEPLOYMENT

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240357345
A selection of a Pairwise Master Key (PMK) caching method in a wireless deployment may be provided. One or more PMK caching methods that are supported by a wireless infrastructure may be advertised. A selection of a PMK caching method based on the advertised one or more PMK caching methods may be received from a first station. The first station may be authenticated in the wireless infrastructure. In response to authenticating, a PMK entry in a cache store associated with the PMK caching…

TRACKING COMPUTER DEVICES IN EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE SYSTEMS

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240356958
This disclosure describes techniques for mapping local device identifiers used in monitoring data from different sources to a common global identifier to enable correlation of monitoring events related to the same device. The techniques can be used in the context of an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) system architecture for advanced threat detection and response in a computer system. In some cases, the XDR system ingests security data from various monitoring components like…

COORDINATED MONITORING OF HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS IN EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE (XDR) SYSTEMS

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240356950
A method may include receiving, by a processor, first monitoring data from a first monitoring component and second monitoring data from a second monitoring component. The method may further include determining, by the processor, that the first monitoring data represents a first activity pattern of a computing entity in a first period. The method may further include determining, by the processor, that the second monitoring data represents a second activity pattern of the computing entity…

ASYNCHRONOUS DATA PROCESSING IN EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE SYSTEMS

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240356949
This disclosure describes techniques for mapping local device identifiers used in monitoring data from different sources to a common global identifier to enable correlation of monitoring events related to the same device. The techniques can be used in the context of an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) system architecture for advanced threat detection and response in a computer system. In some cases, the XDR system ingests security data from various monitoring components like…

ENERGY SAVINGS THROUGH AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF LINK SPEED

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240356827
Energy savings through adjustment of link speed may be provided. A utilization of a port may be monitored. The port may be configured to run at a plurality of speeds. Based on monitoring the utilization of the port, it may be determined that the utilization of the port has dropped, for a first predetermined time period, below a supported speed lower than a current port speed. Energy consumed by the port may be lowered, in response to determining that the utilization of the port has…

PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR EXTENDED DETECTION AND RESPONSE (XDR) SYSTEMS

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240354399
A method may include receiving monitoring data including a first monitoring event, a second monitoring event, and a third monitoring event associated with a computing system. The method may further include may determining, by a first predictive model, that the first and the second monitoring events are security-related while the third monitoring event is not security-related, a first feature set for the first monitoring event, and a second feature set for the second monitoring event. The…

POWER INSENSITIVE STABLE ISOLATOR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXER

Granted: October 24, 2024
Application Number: 20240353623
Disclosed is an apparatus, including an isolator wavelength division multiplexer (IWDM). A signal-fiber is optically coupled to a first side of the WDM-Isolator core. The signal-fiber is configured to propagate signal light. A pump-fiber defines an expanded tip optically coupled to the WDM-Isolator core. The pump-fiber is configured to propagate pump light. A common-fiber is optically coupled to the WDM-Isolator core. The common-fiber is configured to propagate a combination of the…

APPLICATION-CENTRIC WEB PROTOCOL-BASED DATA STORAGE

Granted: October 17, 2024
Application Number: 20240348676
A method of managing data storage processes may include, at a processing device, computing a hypertext transmission protocol version 3 (HTTP/3) header of a first message received at a network interface controller (NIC) device into a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) message, transmitting the NVMe message to a device associated with the processing device, and with the NVMe message, transmitting data directly between a NIC and the data storage device.

HARDWARE-ACCELERATED SERVICE MESH

Granted: October 17, 2024
Application Number: 20240348708
A method of managing data streaming processes may include at a processing device, computing hypertext transmission protocol version 3 (HTTP/3) header of a first message received at a first network interface controller (NIC) into a first control message and a second control message, and transmitting the first control message to the first NIC associated with the processing device. The method may further include transmitting the second control message to a second NIC associated with the…

NON-DISRUPTIVE SESSION TIMEOUT

Granted: October 17, 2024
Application Number: 20240348694
A client device may receive, from a computing device, a message indicating that a session duration of a current session is nearly over. The client device may close the current session as soon as the client device is idle for more than a configurable interval. A new session may be started with the computing device by the client device.