Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

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

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.