Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

F5 Networks, Inc.

427Patents
381Active
427Granted
56Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 19, 1999 → Apr 27, 2020 · 132 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7441045B2 Method and system for balancing load distribution on a wide area network Electricity 351 Expired
US7877511B1 Method and apparatus for adaptive services networking Electricity 329 Active
US6374300B1 Method and system for storing load balancing information with an HTTP cookie Electricity 318 Expired
US7873065B1 Selectively enabling network packet concatenation based on metrics Electricity 264 Active
US7769823B2 Method and system for distributing requests for content Electricity 236 Expired
US6473802B2 Method and system for storing load balancing information with an HTTP cookie Electricity 222 Expired
US7113962B1 Method and system for automatically updating content stored on servers connected by a network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 209 Expired
US7958222B1 Method and system for accessing network services Electricity 198 Active
US8566452B1 Intelligent HTTP based load-balancing, persistence, and application traffic management of SSL VPN tunnels Electricity 194 Active
US6405219B2 Method and system for automatically updating the version of a set of files stored on content servers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 180 Expired
US8516129B1 Link load balancer that controls a path for a client to connect to a resource Electricity 175 Active
US7051126B1 Hardware accelerated compression Electricity 134 Expired
US8261351B1 DNS flood protection platform for a network Electricity 120 Active
US7975025B1 Smart prefetching of data over a network Physics 118 Active
US9553845B1 Methods for validating and testing firewalls and devices thereof Electricity 110 Active
US7102996B1 Method and system for scaling network traffic managers Electricity 110 Expired
US8121117B1 Application layer network traffic prioritization Electricity 99 Active
US10122740B1 Methods for establishing anomaly detection configurations and identifying anomalous network traffic and devices thereof Electricity 97 Active
US8560709B1 System and method for dynamic policy based access over a virtual private network Electricity 96 Active
US7826487B1 Coalescing acknowledgement responses to improve network communications Electricity 95 Active
US8180747B2 Load sharing cluster file systems Physics 93 Active
US7958347B1 Methods and apparatus for implementing authentication Electricity 90 Active
US8700892B2 Proxy SSL authentication in split SSL for client-side proxy agent resources with content insertion Electricity 88 Active
US9210094B1 Utilization of TCP segmentation offload with jumbo and non-jumbo networks Electricity 87 Active
US10375155B1 System and method for achieving hardware acceleration for asymmetric flow connections Electricity 86 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.