Virtual testing of network resiliency
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149436
Technologies for testing resiliency of a data network with real-world accuracy without affecting the flow of production data through the network. A method according to the technologies may include receiving a production data packet and determining a preferred data route toward a destination node for the production data packet based on a first routing information base, wherein the first routing information base includes a database where routes and route metadata are stored according to a…
Systems and methods for integrating a broadband network gateway into a 5G network
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12150214
In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a router to act as a BNG and establishing, by the router, a connection between CPE and the BNG. The method also includes receiving, by the router, end-user and access parameters and communicating, by the router, the end-user and access parameters to one or more 5G NFs by interacting with one or more SBIs. The method further includes allowing, by the router, the CPE access to the one or more 5G NFs in response to communicating the end-user…
Dynamically encrypted radio frequency fingerprinting
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149938
Aspects described herein provide for hardening an RF signature by dynamically utilizing a sending device carrier frequency offset (CFO) as part of the RF signature. The CFO and the CFO varying pattern of wireless devices observed. A radio frequency signature at a sending device is paired to a frequency offset estimation algorithm at a receiving device, the final CFO estimation error may be bounded to a small range for various applications and communication protocols, and utilized to…
Private 5G federation system for dynamic user equipment on-boarding
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149936
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamically onboarding a UE between private 5G networks. In one aspect, a private 5G (P5G) federation system can receive a request from a user device for registration with a serving private 5G network, which is part of a P5G federation system. The P5G federation system can further determine that the user device is authenticated with a home private 5G network of the user device, which is also part of the P5G federation…
Applying attestation to BGP-LS
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149626
In one embodiment, a method by an apparatus of a Border Gateway Protocol-Link State (BGP-LS) environment includes receiving an attestation token from a first component and encoding the attestation token in a BGP-LS signaling message. The method further includes sending the BGP-LS signaling message with the encoded attestation token to a second component of the BGP-LS environment.
QUIC and anycast proxy resiliency
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149596
Techniques for managing migrations of QUIC connection session(s) across proxy nodes, data centers, and/or private application nodes are described herein. A global key-value datastore, accessible by proxy nodes and/or application nodes, may store mappings between a first QUIC connection, associated with a proxy node and a client device, on the frontend of the proxy node and a second QUIC connection, associated with the proxy node and an application node, on the backend of the proxy node.…
Compliant node identification
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149564
In one embodiment, a device may obtain an identifier of a proof of location process (PLP) and an identifier of a node where the PLP is executed. The device may receive a query from a compliance engine for a proof of location of the node where the PLP is executed. The device may identify, based on the identifier of the PLP and the identifier of the node, a physical location of the node. The device may provide, to the compliance engine, a response to the query that is indicative of the…
SASE based method of preventing exhausting attack in wireless mesh networks
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149548
The present disclosure provides a hierarchical method of identifying unauthorized network traffic in a network by applying, at one of a first plurality of nodes of a network, a first level of network traffic analysis to identify received network traffic as one of authorized or suspicious network traffic, the one of the first plurality of nodes having a first path for traffic routing and a second path to one of a second plurality of nodes of the network, the second path being used for…
Automatic poll generation based on user communications
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149493
A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for automatically generating polls. A message of a plurality of messages is received corresponding to a conversation between a plurality of users. One or more candidate polls are generated using a natural language processing model and determining a poll type for each of the one or more candidate polls based on the message and a context of the conversation. It is determined that at least one candidate poll of the one or…
Multicast redundancy in EVPN networks
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149440
A system and associated methods provide a scalable solution for managing multiple multicast flows within a multicast group of a multicast network. The system groups redundant sources of the multicast group according to their associated multicast flows, assigns flow identifiers to each redundant source indicative of their associated multicast flows, and facilitates Single Forwarder election to select a Single Forwarder that belongs to the appropriate multicast flow. The system provides…
Source address validation for asymmetric routing
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149432
Techniques are described for providing a method and apparatus for determining source address validation of a data packet in a network in the presence of asymmetric routing. When a data packet is received by a node such as a router, a reverse path forwarding lookup is performed to determine if the data packet was received on a next-hop interface and if the reverse path forwarding fails, a Shortest Path First (SPF) computation at the router advertising the source route will be performed…
Analyzing the impact of network events across time
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149421
The present technology pertains to a system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for evaluating the impact of network changes. The technology can detect a temporal event, wherein the temporal event is associated with a change in a network configuration, implementation, or utilization; define a first period prior to the temporal event and a second period posterior to the temporal event; and compare network data collected in the first period and network data collected in…
Automated generation of standard network device configurations
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149410
Techniques described herein relate to automatically generating standard network device configurations. In one example, one or more groups of network device configuration blocks may be obtained. An analysis of the one or more groups of network device configuration blocks may be performed, including identifying respective frequencies associated with respective network device configuration blocks of the one or more groups of network device configuration blocks. Based on the respective…
Techniques and interfaces for troubleshooting datacenter networks
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149399
A monitoring device for troubleshooting events in a datacenter network identifies a first network event for a time period, and provides an initial display page, one or more additional display pages, selectable display objects, and a representation of the first network event. The device generates a dynamic troubleshooting path for the first network event to track a user navigation between display pages, a manipulation of the one or more selectable display objects, and a last-current…
Computationally efficient and bitrate scalable soft vector quantization
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12149263
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining data to be compressed; determining a distance between the data to be compressed and each codeword of a plurality of codewords; selecting a predetermined number of codewords of the plurality of codewords based on the distance between the data to be compressed and each of the predetermined number of codewords; and generating compressed data, where the compressed data includes an indication of the…
Query translation for an external data system
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141137
A computing device can receive a query in a first query language that identifies a set of data to be processed and determine that at least a portion of the set of data resides in an external data system that uses a different query language. The query system can translate the query in the first query language in to a second query language for the external data system. In translating the query, the computing device may translate one or more time-based query commands into the second query…
SASE pop selection based on client features
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12143289
In one embodiment, a device obtains client attribute data for clients of an online application that access the online application via a plurality of points of presence in a network. The device forms a performance model that models an application experience metric for the online application as a function of the client attribute data for each of the plurality of points of presence. The device selects, using the performance model, a particular point of presence from among the plurality of…
Connecting multi-conductor cables with surface contacts
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12142861
A system includes a cage and a first coil. The cage includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end is arranged to receive an electrical connector. The second end is arranged to receive a pluggable module such that the electrical connector forms an electrical connection with the pluggable module. The first coil is positioned on or in the cage such that the first coil is arranged to deliver electric power to the pluggable module by inducing an electric current…
Stiffener ring combined with ASIC power delivery
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12142578
An apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB), and an integrated circuit (IC) package connected with the PCB. The IC package includes a package substrate, a die secured to the package substrate and including an integrated circuit, and a stiffener ring secured to the package substrate and surrounding so as to define a perimeter around the die. The stiffener ring increases a rigidity of the package substrate and delivers electrical power to the integrated circuit, where the stiffener…
Object interaction via extended reality
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141426
A mobile device is fitted with an extended reality (XR) software application program executing on a processor within an XR system, and optionally a camera. Via the XR software application program, various techniques are performed for interacting with a physical object via the XR environment, in particular modifying, for example, a state or a parameter or operations of the object. In a technique, the XR software application program facilitates directing a physical computing system or…
