Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Francois Edouard Tallet

25Patents
5h-index
14Co-inventors
62Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 15, 2005 → Jul 21, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8248920B2 Alternate spanning tree for faster indirect link failure recovery Electricity 37 Active
US8681641B1 Loop mitigation mechanism for ethernet networks Electricity 19 Active
US7639699B2 Technique for sharing a physical port among a plurality of virtual bridges on a switch in a computer network Electricity 9 Active
US8175009B2 System and method for generating symmetrical spanning trees Electricity 7 Active
US7646733B2 System and method for generating symmetrical spanning trees Electricity 6 Active
US8208407B2 Optimized flush operation in response to topology changes for spanning tree protocols Electricity 3 Active
US8274919B2 System and method for implementing multiple ring networks using a common link Electricity 3 Active
US8325629B2 System and method for assuring the operation of network devices in bridged networks Electricity 2 Active
US7929554B2 Optimized forwarding for provider backbone bridges with both I and B components (IB-PBB) Electricity 2 Active
US7835306B2 Translating MST instances between ports of a bridge in a computer network Electricity 2 Active
US7839800B2 Multiple I-service registration protocol (MIRP) Electricity 2 Active
US7778205B2 System and method for implementing virtual ports within ring networks Electricity 2 Active
US8228823B2 Avoiding high-speed network partitions in favor of low-speed links Electricity 1 Active
US9203731B2 Mechanism to implement a layer 2 gateway Electricity 1 Active
US8111634B2 System and method for integrating ring-protocol-compatible devices into network configurations that also include non-ring-protocol compatible devices Electricity 1 Active
US9306856B2 Optimal tree root selection for trees spanning multiple sites Electricity 1 Active
US8411690B2 Preventing data traffic connectivity between endpoints of a network segment Electricity 1 Active
US8059668B2 Efficient end-to-end proposal/agreement messaging for spanning tree convergence in a computer network Electricity 1 Active
US9225642B2 Loop mitigation mechanism for Ethernet networks Electricity 0 Active
US8811235B2 System and method for assuring the operation of network devices in bridged networks Electricity 0 Active
US8565123B2 System and method for running a multiple spanning tree protocol with a very large number of domains Electricity 0 Active
US10348620B2 Minimum disruption MST reconfiguration (MDMR) Electricity 0 Active
US8885486B2 Detecting and mitigating data plane bridging loops Electricity 0 Active
US9112724B2 Minimum disruption MST reconfiguration (MDMR) Electricity 0 Active
US8687523B2 System and method for integrating ring-protocol-compatible devices into network configurations that also include non-ring-protocol compatible devices Electricity 0 Active

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