Inventor · Newman Lake, WA, US

Keith Michael Bly

21Patents
10h-index
15Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 19, 2002 → Sep 3, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8199750B1 Communicating with a control plane using a forwarding information format and control plane processing of packets devoid of a virtual switch identifier Electricity 324 Active
US8018938B1 Translating between a switching format and a transport format Electricity 140 Active
US7269180B2 System and method for prioritizing and queuing traffic Electricity 45 Expired
US8948175B2 Selecting a link of a link group based on contents of a concealed header Electricity 39 Active
US7653056B1 Virtual switching using a provisional identifier to conceal a user identifier Electricity 37 Active
US7272149B2 Bandwidth allocation systems and methods Electricity 23 Expired
US8094559B1 Consumption of a permitted data rate by grouped data streams Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US7782856B1 Forwarding data packets having tags conforming to different formats Electricity 18 Active
US7272150B2 System and method for shaping traffic from a plurality of data streams using hierarchical queuing Electricity 14 Expired
US7830883B1 Modifying duplicate packets to have different transport formats Electricity 10 Active
US7860116B2 Processing packets of a virtual interface associated with tunnels Electricity 9 Active
US7760723B1 Relaying a data stream from a data device to a network tunnel Electricity 8 Active
US7764621B1 Packet loopback methods and replacing a destination address with a source address Electricity 6 Active
US7948874B2 Transitioning a virtual interface from one tunnel to another tunnel Electricity 5 Active
US9860164B2 Flow based virtual network function orchestration Electricity 5 Active
US7961728B2 Virtual switching using a provisional identifier to conceal a user identifier Electricity 4 Active
US8379676B1 Injecting in-band control messages without impacting a data rate Electricity 2 Active
US8467399B2 Processing packets of a virtual interface associated with tunnels Electricity 2 Active
US7277389B2 Systems and methods for grouping of bandwidth allocations Electricity 2 Expired
US10986025B2 Weighted random early detection improvements to absorb microbursts Electricity 0 Active
US11171891B2 Congestion drop decisions in packet queues Electricity 0 Active

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