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Eric Bauer

Eric Bauer

Senior Technology Advisor

Murray Hill, NJ, USA

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Biography

Eric Bauer is a Bell Labs Fellow in the Technology, Strategy & Architecture group of Nokia Bell Labs.Nokia's Applications and Analytics business group where he focuses on efficiency, reliability, availability and qualityof cloud-based services. Mr. Bauer has authored five books on cloud computing and two ETSI NFV specifications.  Before focusing on cloud, he worked on reliability of software, systems, and network-based solutions and wrote three general reliability engineering books. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bauer spent two decades designing and developing embedded firmware, networked operating systems, IP PBXs, internet platforms, and optical transmission systems. He has been awarded twenty-four US patents.

Education
  • MS in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University

Patents
  • US Patent 4,899,377        Communication terminal telephone directory with dynamic directory tabbing

  • US Patent 5,388,257        Method and apparatus for operating a computer based file system

  • US Patent 5,412,808        System for parsing extended file names in an operating system

  • US Patent 5,550,981        Dynamic binding of network identities to locally-meaningful identities in computer networks

  • US Patent 5,627,996        Method and apparatus for accessing the same computer file using different file name formats

  • US Patent 5,745,888        Advanced file server apparatus and method

  • US Patent 5,819,047        Method for controlling resource usage by network identities

  • US Patent 6,650,745        Method and apparatus for dynamically exchanging data among participants to a conference call

  • US Patent 6,711,129        Real-Time Admission Control

  • US Patent 6,735,193        Method and apparatus for suppression of packets during silence periods in a packet telephony system

  • US Patent 7,020,263        Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating bandwidth utilization in a packet telephony system

  • US Patent 7,180,863        Method and apparatus for overload control in multi-branch packet network

  • US Patent 7,688,757        Method and apparatus for assessing sourced elements

  • US Patent 7,873,505        Method and apparatus for predicting scheduled system downtime

  • US Patent 8,774,790        Method and apparatus for improving wireless network reliability

  • US Patent 8,826,074        Live module diagnostic testing

  • US Patent 8,856,585        Hardware failure mitigation

  • US Patent 8,949,655        Preventing extreme coresidency hazards in cloud computing

  • US Patent 8,977,886        Method and apparatus for rapid disaster recovery preparation in a cloud network

  • US Patent 9,075,660        Apparatus and method for providing service availability to a user via selection of data centers for the user

  • US Patent 9,104,487        Reducing response time variance of virtual processors

  • US Patent 9,130,967        Method and system for network element service recovery

  • US Patent 9,183,102        Hardware consumption architecture

  • US Patent 9,286,170        Preventing extreme coresidency hazards in cloud computing

  • US Patent 10,142,401     Management of computing infrastructure under emergency peak capacity conditions Inventors

  • US Patent 10,009,416     Perfect application capacity analysis for elastic capacity management of cloud-based applications

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