Shreedhara Maduvinakodi Ramegowda

Title: Shreedhara Maduvinakodi Ramegowda and Flow Control Between Fiber Channel and Wide Area Networks.

Introduction

Shreedhara Maduvinakodi Ramegowda is an inventor associated with Bengaluru, India, and Lucent Technologies Inc. His patent work addresses flow control for connecting storage networks across wide-area networks.

Latest Patents

The provided information identifies one patent associated with Ramegowda: “Flow Control Between Fiber Channel and Wide Area Networks.” The invention describes interconnecting multiple Fiber Channel (FC) storage area networks over a wide-area network to create a distributed storage area network. It uses gateways to coordinate FC buffer-to-buffer flow control with Internet Protocol and WAN mechanisms, including ICMP quench and, for Gigabit Ethernet links, IEEE 802.3 pause packets. An additive-increase, multiplicative-decrease congestion-avoidance algorithm and rate throttling help manage traffic between the FC and IP interfaces. The supplied record lists 1 patent.

Career Highlights

Ramegowda’s listed work at Lucent Technologies Inc. reflects an engineering focus on communication networks and the integration of storage traffic across long-distance links. The patent’s approach combines flow-control methods from different network technologies to support distributed storage.

Collaborations

The supplied information names Hemant Kumar KashinathRao Revankar and William R. Krieg as Ramegowda’s coworkers. Their specific contributions to the patent are not stated in the provided details.

Conclusion

Shreedhara Maduvinakodi Ramegowda’s identified patent presents a method for coordinating flow control between Fiber Channel storage networks and wide-area network links, supporting the development of distributed storage systems.