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Force10 Networks, Inc.

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102Patents
80Active
102Granted
56Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 1, 2000 → Aug 24, 2016 · 55 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7190696B1 System and method for distributing packets among a plurality of paths to a destination Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 174 Expired
US7729296B1 Distributed BPDU processing for spanning tree protocols Electricity 173 Active
US8014278B1 Adaptive load balancing between ECMP or LAG port group members Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 140 Active
US7277425B1 High-speed router switching architecture Electricity 92 Expired
US7650525B1 SPI-4.2 dynamic implementation without additional phase locked loops Electricity 91 Active
US7154902B1 Epoch-based packet switching Electricity 83 Expired
US6812803B2 Passive transmission line equalization using circuit-board thru-holes Electricity 81 Expired
US7903554B1 Leaking component link traffic engineering information Electricity 79 Active
US6745277B1 Intelligent interleaving scheme for multibank memory Physics 76 Expired
US6975638B1 Interleaved weighted fair queuing mechanism and system Electricity 75 Expired
US8345439B1 Modular chassis arrangement with redundant logic power delivery system Electricity 69 Active
US7869432B1 Peer-to-peer link aggregation across a service provider network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 68 Active
US6988162B2 High-speed router with single backplane distributing both power and signaling Electricity 59 Expired
US6904015B1 Congestion avoidance profiles in a packet switching system Electricity 59 Expired
US8190960B1 Guaranteed inter-process communication Electricity 55 Active
US8243594B1 Coordinated control of multiple parallel links or link aggregations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Active
US7897880B1 Inductance-tuned circuit board via crosstalk structures Electricity 49 Active
US6941649B2 Method of fabricating a high-layer-count backplane Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6963576B1 Scheduling and arbitration scheme for network processing device Electricity 37 Expired
US8693341B2 Method and apparatus for optimizing data traffic path through a stacked switch LAG configuration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US8102848B1 Multicast high availability enhancements for faster convergence Electricity 36 Active
US7760668B1 Self-reconfiguring spanning tree Electricity 36 Active
US7558872B1 Point-to-point protocol flow control extension Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Active
US8514712B1 Non-stop VoIP support Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Active
US8345536B1 Multicast high availability enhancements for non-stop forwarding Electricity 30 Active

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