World Wide Packets, Inc.
46Patents
41Active
46Granted
50Portfolio score
Filing activity: Aug 19, 2002 → Dec 20, 2010 · 37 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8199750B1 | Communicating with a control plane using a forwarding information format and control plane processing of packets devoid of a virtual switch identifier | Electricity | 324 | Active |
| US8018938B1 | Translating between a switching format and a transport format | Electricity | 140 | Active |
| US7269180B2 | System and method for prioritizing and queuing traffic | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US7653056B1 | Virtual switching using a provisional identifier to conceal a user identifier | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US7869439B1 | Varying packet switch behavior based on a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch | Electricity | 25 | Active |
| US7272149B2 | Bandwidth allocation systems and methods | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US8094559B1 | Consumption of a permitted data rate by grouped data streams | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Active |
| US8149834B1 | Forwarding a packet to a port from which the packet is received and transmitting modified, duplicated packets on a single port | Electricity | 22 | Active |
| US7653057B1 | Preventing forwarding of a packet to a control plane | Electricity | 20 | Active |
| US8416789B1 | Multipoint packet forwarding using packet tunnels | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US7693164B1 | Configuring a packet tunnel network | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US7782856B1 | Forwarding data packets having tags conforming to different formats | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US7720940B1 | Managing a network element using a template configuration | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Active |
| US7272150B2 | System and method for shaping traffic from a plurality of data streams using hierarchical queuing | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US8416790B1 | Processing Ethernet packets associated with packet tunnels | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US7869394B1 | Limiting data packet forwarding to trusted ports | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US7830883B1 | Modifying duplicate packets to have different transport formats | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US8400910B1 | Associated tunnels terminating on different packet switches and relaying packets via different tunnel combinations | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US7860116B2 | Processing packets of a virtual interface associated with tunnels | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US8036106B1 | Distributed control packet transmission | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US7760723B1 | Relaying a data stream from a data device to a network tunnel | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US7733776B1 | Altering switch behavior based on statistical data | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US7304940B2 | Network switch assembly, network switching device, and method | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US8279752B1 | Activating tunnels using control packets | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7948874B2 | Transitioning a virtual interface from one tunnel to another tunnel | Electricity | 5 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.