Inventor · Somerset, WI, US

David Delano Ward

289Patents
35h-index
258Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 12, 2002 → Feb 6, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8824274B1 Scheduled network layer programming within a multi-topology computer network Electricity 131 Active
US8885463B1 Path computation element communication protocol (PCEP) extensions for stateful label switched path management Electricity 104 Active
US8787400B1 Weighted equal-cost multipath Electricity 82 Active
US8942256B1 Advertising with a layer three routing protocol constituent link attributes of a layer two bundle Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Active
US8520672B2 Packet switching device using results determined by an application node Electricity 54 Active
US7561527B1 Bidirectional forwarding detection Electricity 54 Active
US8787154B1 Multi-topology resource scheduling within a computer network Electricity 51 Active
US7529825B1 Server-side XML-based development environment for network device management applications Electricity 51 Expired
US7522521B2 Route processor adjusting of line card admission control parameters for packets destined for the route processor Electricity 50 Active
US9912577B2 Segment routing—egress peer engineering (SP-EPE) Electricity 48 Active
US9178796B2 Multi-layer stateful path computation element architecture Electricity 47 Active
US8954491B1 Dynamically generating application-layer traffic optimization protocol endpoint attributes Electricity 47 Active
US9178812B2 Stacking metadata contexts for service chains Electricity 47 Active
US7023808B2 System and method for distributing route selection in an implementation of a routing protocol Electricity 45 Expired
US9374297B2 Method for implicit session routing Electricity 44 Active
US7415706B1 Dynamic handling of multiple software component versions for device management Physics 42 Expired
US9660909B2 Network service header metadata for load balancing Electricity 42 Active
US9565160B2 Advertisement of adjacency segment identifiers Electricity 41 Active
US9979601B2 Encoding explicit paths as segment routing segment lists Electricity 41 Active
US8909736B1 Content delivery network referral Electricity 40 Active
US7496650B1 Identifying and suppressing transient routing updates Electricity 40 Expired
US7885260B2 Determining packet forwarding information for packets sent from a protocol offload engine in a packet switching device Electricity 40 Active
US9253041B2 Advertising layer 0 network topology information to a layer 3 network Electricity 40 Active
US9698910B2 Network server layer providing disjoint channels in response to client-layer disjoint path requests Electricity 39 Active
US7162476B1 System and method for sharing global data within distributed computing systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired

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