Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Luca Cafiero

42Patents
13h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: May 7, 1984 → May 20, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.