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QLOGIC Corporation

355Patents
270Active
355Granted
55Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jul 26, 1991 → Oct 21, 2015 · 143 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8898346B1 Method and system for configuring network devices Physics 478 Active
US7200144B2 Router and methods using network addresses for virtualization Electricity 362 Expired
US7197572B2 System and method for implementing logical switches in a network system Electricity 313 Expired
US6092231A Circuit and method for rapid checking of error correction codes using cyclic redundancy check Electricity 187 Expired
US6401149B1 Methods for context switching within a disk controller Physics 130 Expired
US7403542B1 Method and system for processing network data packets Electricity 129 Expired
US7447197B2 System and method of providing network node services Electricity 123 Active
US6810440B2 Method and apparatus for automatically transferring I/O blocks between a host system and a host adapter Physics 116 Expired
US6470397B1 Systems and methods for network and I/O device drivers Electricity 111 Expired
US6330626A Systems and methods for a disk controller memory architecture Physics 107 Expired
US7362702B2 Router with routing processors and methods for virtualization Electricity 97 Expired
US6564271B2 Method and apparatus for automatically transferring I/O blocks between a host system and a host adapter Physics 95 Expired
US8706905B1 Method and system for routing information in a network Electricity 84 Active
US6055285A Synchronization circuit for transferring pointer between two asynchronous circuits Electricity 80 Expired
US7983265B1 Method and system for processing a network packet Electricity 75 Active
US8411677B1 Method and system for processing layered networking protocol packets Electricity 64 Active
US7577773B1 Method and system for DMA optimization Electricity 64 Active
US7319669B1 Method and system for controlling packet flow in networks Electricity 63 Expired
US6470461B1 Disk drive controller circuit and method for skipping defective and/or undesired sectors Physics 63 Expired
US5627695A System and method for generating unique sector identifiers for an identificationless disk format Physics 61 Expired
US7009413B1 System and method for testing ball grid arrays Electricity 61 Expired
US8798047B1 Methods and systems for processing network information Electricity 56 Active
US7398335B2 Method and system for DMA optimization in host bus adapters Physics 54 Expired
US7292567B2 Router and methods for distributed virtualization Electricity 54 Expired
US7594057B1 Method and system for processing DMA requests Physics 52 Expired

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