Inventor · Cupertino, CA, US

Apurva Mehta

80Patents
16h-index
90Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 16, 2002 → Aug 22, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7995483B1 Simultaneously testing connectivity to multiple remote maintenance endpoints of the same maintenance association Electricity 323 Active
US8724456B1 Network path selection for multi-homed edges to ensure end-to-end resiliency Physics 247 Active
US7787480B1 Routing frames in a trill network using service VLAN identifiers Electricity 232 Active
US8125928B2 Routing frames in a shortest path computer network for a multi-homed legacy bridge node Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 117 Active
US9621460B2 Connecting multiple customer sites over a wide area network using an overlay network Electricity 110 Active
US8295291B1 Computation of next hops within layer two networks Electricity 102 Active
US7412507B2 Efficient cascaded lookups at a network node Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 88 Expired
US8520615B2 Breakout gateway for mobile data traffic Electricity 79 Active
US8650279B2 Mobile gateway having decentralized control plane for anchoring subscriber sessions Electricity 64 Active
US8619788B1 Performing scalable L2 wholesale services in computer networks Electricity 56 Active
US9491686B2 Virtual private networking with mobile communication continuity Electricity 47 Active
US7519056B2 Managing traffic in a multiport network node using logical ports Electricity 42 Expired
US7139926B1 Stateful failover protection among routers that provide load sharing using network address translation (LSNAT) Electricity 38 Expired
US7289505B2 Efficient reverse path forwarding check mechanism Electricity 30 Expired
US8693398B1 High-availability mobile gateways having interchassis non-uniform service unit redundancy Electricity 18 Active
US8948174B2 Variable-based forwarding path construction for packet processing within a network device Electricity 17 Active
US8635326B1 Mobile gateway having reduced forwarding state for anchoring mobile subscribers Electricity 16 Active
US8675664B1 Performing scalable L2 wholesale services in computer networks using customer VLAN-based forwarding and filtering Electricity 16 Active
US7417987B2 Distribution of forwarding information in a network node Electricity 11 Active
US8509248B2 Routing frames in a computer network using bridge identifiers Electricity 11 Active
US7548541B2 Managing VLAN traffic in a multiport network node using customer-specific identifiers Electricity 11 Active
US8451715B1 Avoiding data loss in a multi-homed layer two bridging network Electricity 10 Active
US8891540B2 Inline network address translation within a mobile gateway router Electricity 10 Active
US9231871B2 Flow distribution table for packet flow load balancing Electricity 9 Active
US7280472B2 Protection switching at a network node Electricity 8 Expired

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