Inventor · Roseville, CA, US

Bruce E. LaVigne

48Patents
7h-index
33Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 11, 1998 → Nov 2, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8611351B2 Marked packet forwarding Electricity 294 Active
US7292573B2 Methods and apparatus for selection of mirrored traffic Electricity 76 Active
US7103045B2 System and method for forwarding packets Electricity 47 Expired
US7506065B2 Remote mirroring using IP encapsulation Electricity 40 Expired
US7596741B2 Packet protection for header modification Electricity 20 Active
US6954812B2 Two-stage round robin arbitration system Physics 13 Expired
US8045550B2 Packet tunneling Electricity 13 Active
US6289066A Method and apparatus for recentering an elasticity FIFO when receiving 1000BASE-X traffic using minimal information Electricity 7 Expired
US7873038B2 Packet processing Electricity 5 Active
US8416773B2 Packet monitoring Electricity 4 Active
US7305507B2 Multi-stage round robin arbitration system Physics 4 Expired
US8054847B2 Buffer management in a network device Electricity 4 Active
US7903655B2 Marked packet forwarding Electricity 4 Active
US7570640B2 Locating original port information Electricity 4 Active
US8327031B2 Support chip for handling network chips on a network device Electricity 3 Active
US7009989B2 Forwarding ordered data packets with less delay Electricity 3 Expired
US7516364B2 Method for testing network devices using breakpointing Electricity 3 Active
US11005814B2 Network security Electricity 2 Active
US7965636B2 Loadbalancing network traffic across multiple remote inspection devices Electricity 2 Active
US8130756B2 Tunnel configuration associated with packet checking in a network Electricity 2 Active
US9521079B2 Packet forwarding between packet forwarding elements in a network device Electricity 2 Active
US7672293B2 Hardware throttling of network traffic sent to a processor based on new address rates Electricity 2 Active
US7849503B2 Packet processing using distribution algorithms Electricity 2 Active
US7624323B2 Method and apparatus for testing an IC device based on relative timing of test signals Physics 2 Active
US10027571B2 Load balancing Electricity 1 Active

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