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FOUNDRY NETWORKS, LLC

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206Patents
151Active
206Granted
54Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 20, 2000 → Feb 12, 2016 · 111 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7496651B1 Configurable geographic prefixes for global server load balancing Electricity 374 Expired
US7086061B1 Statistical tracking of global server load balancing for selecting the best network address from ordered list of network addresses based on a set of performance metrics Electricity 345 Expired
US7516487B1 System and method for source IP anti-spoofing security Electricity 288 Active
US7254626B1 Global server load balancing Electricity 283 Expired
US7454500B1 Global server load balancing Electricity 282 Expired
US6901072B1 System and method for high speed packet transmission implementing dual transmit and receive pipelines Electricity 221 Expired
US7581009B1 Global server load balancing Electricity 220 Active
US7756965B2 Configurable geographic prefixes for global server load balancing Electricity 214 Active
US7899899B2 Configurable geographic prefixes for global server load balancing Electricity 209 Active
US6697368B2 High-performance network switch Electricity 198 Expired
US7716370B1 Redundancy support for network address translation (NAT) Electricity 167 Active
US7477894B1 Methods and apparatus for handling wireless roaming among and across wireless area networks Electricity 145 Expired
US7584301B1 Host-level policies for global server load balancing Electricity 141 Active
US7558195B1 System and method for providing network route redundancy across layer 2 devices Electricity 140 Active
US8782182B2 Generating device-specific configurations Electricity 128 Active
US8615008B2 Duplicating network traffic through transparent VLAN flooding Electricity 121 Active
US7209435B1 System and method for providing network route redundancy across Layer 2 devices Electricity 111 Expired
US6735218B2 Method and system for encoding wide striped cells Electricity 110 Expired
US7027564B2 System, method and apparatus for supporting E911 emergency services in a data communications network Electricity 105 Expired
US6671275B1 Cross-point switch with deadlock prevention Electricity 101 Expired
US7574508B1 Canonical name (CNAME) handling for global server load balancing Electricity 98 Expired
US7423977B1 Smoothing algorithm for round trip time (RTT) measurements Electricity 92 Active
US7187687B1 Pipeline method and system for switching packets Electricity 87 Expired
US7266117B1 System architecture for very fast ethernet blade Electricity 86 Expired
US8248928B1 Monitoring server load balancing Electricity 86 Active

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