Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Erik Nordmark

29Patents
11h-index
17Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: May 15, 2000 → May 7, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7630368B2 Virtual network interface card loopback fastpath Electricity 121 Active
US7738457B2 Method and system for virtual routing using containers Electricity 86 Active
US7733795B2 Virtual network testing and deployment using network stack instances and containers Electricity 37 Active
US7634608B2 Bridging network components Electricity 35 Active
US8370530B2 Method and system for controlling network traffic in a blade chassis Physics 18 Active
US7643482B2 System and method for virtual switching in a host Electricity 16 Active
US7633864B2 Method and system for creating a demilitarized zone using network stack instances Electricity 15 Active
US7689702B1 Methods and apparatus for coordinating processing of network connections between two network protocol stacks Electricity 15 Active
US8447880B2 Network stack instance architecture with selection of transport layers Electricity 12 Active
US7984123B2 Method and system for reconfiguring a virtual network path Physics 12 Active
US7944899B2 Predictive routing technique in the ad hoc wireless network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US7523179B1 System and method for conducting direct data placement (DDP) using a TOE (TCP offload engine) capable network interface card Electricity 11 Active
US7885257B2 Multiple virtual network stack instances using virtual network interface cards Electricity 10 Active
US7647436B1 Method and apparatus to interface an offload engine network interface with a host machine Electricity 9 Active
US8400917B2 Method and system for load balancing using queued packet information Electricity 8 Active
US7912926B2 Method and system for network configuration for containers Electricity 8 Active
US8180352B2 Topology controlled discovery for next hop determination Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8549345B1 Methods and apparatus for recovering from a failed network interface card Electricity 5 Active
US6578036B1 Mechanism for performing polling in a system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US7826359B2 Method and system for load balancing using queued packet information Electricity 3 Active
US7944923B2 Method and system for classifying network traffic Electricity 3 Active
US8630296B2 Shared and separate network stack instances Electricity 2 Active
US8392565B2 Network memory pools for packet destinations and virtual machines Electricity 2 Active
US8713202B2 Method and system for network configuration for virtual machines Electricity 2 Active
US7480291B2 Method and system for processing communications packets according to event lists Electricity 1 Active

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