Luca Cafiero
42Patents
13h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: May 7, 1984 → May 20, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5740171A | Address translation mechanism for a high-performance network switch | Electricity | 379 | Expired |
| US5796732A | Architecture for an expandable transaction-based switching bus | Electricity | 181 | Expired |
| US4584690A | Alternate Mark Invert (AMI) transceiver with switchable detection and digital precompensation | Electricity | 122 | Expired |
| US6762675B1 | Method and apparatus for remote powering of device connected to network | Electricity | 112 | Expired |
| US5280500A | Method and apparatus for multilevel encoding for a local area network | Electricity | 99 | Expired |
| US7564869B2 | Fibre channel over ethernet | Electricity | 65 | Active |
| US6147993A | Method and apparatus for implementing forwarding decision shortcuts at a network switch | Electricity | 61 | Expired |
| US7969971B2 | Ethernet extension for the data center | Electricity | 39 | Active |
| US7519062B1 | Method and apparatus for implementing forwarding decision shortcuts at a network switch | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US8727793B2 | Optical module design in an SFP form factor to support increased rates of data transmission | Electricity | 28 | Active |
| US7256684B1 | Method and apparatus for remote powering of device connected to network | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US8788873B2 | Server input/output failover device serving highly available virtual devices | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US9100313B1 | Shared egress buffer in a multi-stage switch | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US8160094B2 | Fibre channel over ethernet | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US7793137B2 | Redundant power and data in a wired data telecommunincations network | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US7849351B2 | Power and data redundancy in a single wiring closet | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US8407394B2 | System and methods for memory expansion | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US6842453B1 | Method and apparatus for implementing forwarding decision shortcuts at a network switch | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US7823026B2 | Automatic system for power and data redundancy in a wired data telecommunications network | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US8825965B2 | System and methods for memory expansion | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US8549331B2 | Redundant power and data in a wired data telecommunications network | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US8386832B2 | Power and data redundancy in a single wiring closet | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US9680266B2 | High density connector | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US10649148B2 | Multistage spot size converter in silicon photonics | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US10079761B2 | Hierarchical routing with table management across hardware modules | Electricity | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.