Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Amar Padmanabhan

41Patents
14h-index
36Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 25, 2012 → Feb 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9172603B2 WAN optimizer for logical networks Electricity 101 Active
US8966029B2 Network control system for configuring middleboxes Electricity 71 Active
US9195491B2 Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes Electricity 68 Active
US10089127B2 Control plane interface for logical middlebox services Electricity 51 Active
US9699070B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 50 Active
US9306843B2 Using transactions to compute and propagate network forwarding state Electricity 48 Active
US9455901B2 Managing software and hardware forwarding elements to define virtual networks Electricity 41 Active
US9602422B2 Implementing fixed points in network state updates using generation numbers Electricity 38 Active
US9137107B2 Physical controllers for converting universal flows Electricity 22 Active
US9319338B2 Tunnel creation Physics 18 Active
US9552219B2 Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes Electricity 18 Active
US10153965B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 17 Active
US9319337B2 Universal physical control plane Physics 17 Active
US9331937B2 Exchange of network state information between forwarding elements Electricity 15 Active
US9558027B2 Network control system for configuring middleboxes Electricity 13 Active
US9602421B2 Nesting transaction updates to minimize communication Physics 13 Active
US10235199B2 Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes Electricity 11 Active
US10310886B2 Network control system for configuring middleboxes Electricity 10 Active
US9246833B2 Pull-based state dissemination between managed forwarding elements Physics 9 Active
US9407566B2 Distributed network control system Physics 7 Active
US10922124B2 Network control system for configuring middleboxes Electricity 6 Active
US10924386B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 6 Active
US10977067B2 Control plane interface for logical middlebox services Electricity 5 Active
US10044676B2 Using headerspace analysis to identify unneeded distributed firewall rules Electricity 4 Active
US9288104B2 Chassis controllers for converting universal flows Electricity 4 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.