Inventor · New Boston, NH, US

James N. Guichard

113Patents
29h-index
109Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 26, 2003 → Jan 22, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7373660B1 Methods and apparatus to distribute policy information Electricity 447 Expired
US7623535B2 Routing protocol support for half duplex virtual routing and forwarding instance Electricity 163 Active
US7602778B2 System and methods for compressing message headers Electricity 100 Active
US9344337B2 Service node originated service chains in a network environment Electricity 73 Active
US9608896B2 Service node originated service chains in a network environment Electricity 71 Active
US7509491B1 System and method for dynamic secured group communication Electricity 64 Active
US7613826B2 Methods and apparatus for providing multiple policies for a virtual private network Electricity 60 Active
US10187306B2 System and method for improved service chaining Electricity 59 Active
US10333822B1 Techniques for implementing loose hop service function chains price information Electricity 55 Active
US9379931B2 System and method for transporting information to services in a network environment Electricity 53 Active
US10812378B2 System and method for improved service chaining Electricity 52 Active
US9413655B2 Providing virtual private service chains in a network environment Electricity 48 Active
US9178812B2 Stacking metadata contexts for service chains Electricity 47 Active
US9479443B2 System and method for transporting information to services in a network environment Electricity 46 Active
US9374297B2 Method for implicit session routing Electricity 44 Active
US9398486B2 Conveying subscriber information to service chain services using tunnel protocol header encapsulation for mobile network applications in a network environment Electricity 44 Active
US7870604B1 Methods and apparatus to configure network nodes supporting virtual connections Electricity 44 Active
US9749229B2 Forwarding packets with encapsulated service chain headers Electricity 43 Active
US9385950B2 Configurable service proxy local identifier mapping Electricity 42 Active
US9660909B2 Network service header metadata for load balancing Electricity 42 Active
US9571405B2 Metadata augmentation in a service function chain Electricity 40 Active
US9444675B2 Determining the operations performed along a service path/service chain Electricity 39 Active
US9723106B2 Service function chaining branching Electricity 39 Active
US7583593B2 System and methods for detecting network failure Electricity 37 Active
US9363183B2 Network address translation offload to network infrastructure for service chains in a network environment Electricity 36 Active

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