Equinix Patent Applications

Direct Connect Virtual Private Interface for a One to Many Connection with Multiple Virtual Private Clouds

Granted: November 13, 2014
Application Number: 20140334495
Systems and methods include a direct connect virtual private interface includes a physical port configured to receive one physical connection in order to provide two or more virtual connections for multiple virtual private clouds (VPCs) within a public cloud provider's infrastructure. Each public cloud infrastructure has its own multiple VPCs. Each VPC is an on demand configurable pool of shared computing resources allocated within each public cloud provider's infrastructure that…

ON LINE WEB PORTAL FOR PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS

Granted: January 17, 2013
Application Number: 20130018753
A web-enabled user interface is provided to enable the carriers of private networks to interact and to offer services to one another. The web-enabled user interface is integrated to a switch fabric configured to provide interconnection services for the carriers. The web-enabled user interface is configured to enable the carriers to assign different roles to different representatives. Each of the representatives is granted certain rights and permissions by an administrator representative…

REAL TIME CONFIGURATION AND PROVISIONING FOR A CARRIER ETHERNET EXCHANGE

Granted: January 10, 2013
Application Number: 20130013442
An Ethernet switch platform is configured to receive and process a provisioning order to establish a logical virtual circuit interconnecting a physical port associated with a buying carrier and a physical port associated with a selling carrier to set up a private network to private network connection between the buying and selling carriers. The virtual circuit is established with parameters called for in a request for quote (RFQ) initiated by the buying carrier and in a response to the…

DELEGATED AND RESTRICTED ASSET-BASED PERMISSIONS MANAGEMENT FOR CO-LOCATION FACILITIES

Granted: June 16, 2011
Application Number: 20110145292
At least one user is designated to manage assets including management delegations, access restrictions, and access permissions. Management responsibilities are applied based on business rules and based on a hierarchical model. The hierarchical model enables a well-defined logical flow of delegations and restrictions with pruning capability. User groups, asset groups, asset trees and asset permissions may be defined. The designated user can manage a single asset or all assets or a subset…

PERFORMANCE, ANALYTICS AND AUDITING FRAMEWORK FOR PORTAL APPLICATIONS

Granted: June 16, 2011
Application Number: 20110145399
A performance, analytics and auditing (PAA) system is configured to operate with a complex web application including a portal application and its sub systems non-intrusively. The PAA system includes a first component configured to capture behavior-related information from the portal application, a second component configured to capture performance-related information from the portal application, a third component configured to capture auditing-related information from the portal…

UNIFIED USER LOGIN FOR CO-LOCATION FACILITIES

Granted: June 16, 2011
Application Number: 20110145903
A logical customer organization model is applied to group the individual agreements into separate logical customer organizations, wherein the groupings can be region based groupings, organization groupings and departmental groupings. Unified login identification (ID) model is applied to enable a first user to login to a portal using a first login ID to access a first asset in a first asset group according to a first logical customer organization. The unified login ID model enables the…

COOLING TOWER

Granted: May 19, 2011
Application Number: 20110113798
An apparatus and method for cooling a fluid are disclosed. The apparatus includes a pre-cooling chamber and a main tower in a generally side-by-side configuration. A cooling fluid flows generally transversely through the pre-cooling chamber and the main tower in order to cool the fluid to be cooled.

PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED CARRIER ETHERNET EXCHANGE

Granted: March 10, 2011
Application Number: 20110058547
An Ethernet exchanger is coupled to two or more Ethernet networks to exchange information among the two or more Ethernet networks using virtual circuits. A first Ethernet network is associated with a first carrier and a first port of the Ethernet exchanger. A second Ethernet network is associated with a second carrier and a second port of the Ethernet exchanger. Network information of the first Ethernet network and network information of the second Ethernet network are provided by the…

REAL TIME CONFIGURATION AND PROVISIONING FOR A CARRIER ETHERNET EXCHANGE

Granted: March 10, 2011
Application Number: 20110058565
An Ethernet switch platform is configured to receive and process a provisioning order to establish a logical virtual circuit interconnecting a physical port associated with a buying carrier and a physical port associated with a selling carrier to set up a private network to private network connection between the buying and selling carriers. The virtual circuit is established with parameters called for in a request for quote (RFQ) initiated by the buying carrier and in a response to the…

ON LINE WEB PORTAL FOR PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS

Granted: March 10, 2011
Application Number: 20110060657
A web-enabled user interface is provided to enable the carriers of private networks to interact and to offer services to one another. The web-enabled user interface is integrated to a switch fabric configured to provide interconnection services for the carriers. The web-enabled user interface is configured to enable the carriers to assign different roles to different representatives. Each of the representatives is granted certain rights and permissions by an administrator representative…

NETWORK TO NETWORK INTERFACE (NNI) FOR MULTIPLE PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS

Granted: March 10, 2011
Application Number: 20110060846
An Ethernet exchanger connected to private Ethernet networks of participating carriers to enable the private Ethernet networks to be interconnected at a common point. The Ethernet exchanger not biased to any participating carrier and is configured to receive, translate and transmit frames from one private Ethernet network to another private Ethernet network. The frame translation is performed by the Ethernet exchanger is based on the profiles of the participating carriers. The profiles…