Inventor · Redwood City, CA, US

Benjamin L. Pfaff

25Patents
9h-index
22Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 26, 2008 → Apr 17, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8966035B2 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing distributed virtual switches in several hosts and physical forwarding elements Electricity 87 Active
US9686200B2 Flow cache hierarchy Electricity 72 Active
US9699070B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 50 Active
US9455901B2 Managing software and hardware forwarding elements to define virtual networks Electricity 41 Active
US9083609B2 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Electricity 35 Active
US8913483B2 Fault tolerant managed switching element architecture Electricity 26 Active
US10153965B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 17 Active
US9590919B2 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches Electricity 12 Active
US9876672B2 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Electricity 11 Active
US10924386B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 6 Active
US9306875B2 Managed switch architectures for implementing logical datapath sets Electricity 6 Active
US10798048B2 Address resolution protocol suppression using a flow-based forwarding element Electricity 5 Active
US10931600B2 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches Electricity 4 Active
US10659373B2 Processing packets according to hierarchy of flow entry storages Electricity 3 Active
US9654424B2 Managed forwarding element with conjunctive match flow entries Electricity 2 Active
US10476735B2 Representation of match conditions in logical pipeline data Electricity 2 Active
US10200235B2 Distributed database structure for logical and physical network data Electricity 2 Active
US11632332B2 Packet classification with multiple classifiers Electricity 1 Active
US10749736B2 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Electricity 1 Active
US11522788B2 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Electricity 1 Active
US10348619B2 Generating conjunctive match flow entries Electricity 1 Active
US10305725B2 Local controller agent for converting logical pipeline data Electricity 1 Active
US11425055B2 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches Electricity 0 Active
US12155576B2 Packet classification with multiple classifiers Electricity 0 Active
US11683214B2 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Electricity 0 Active

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