Inventor · Cary, NC, US

Mark Albert

46Patents
25h-index
44Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 22, 1996 → Jan 11, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6650641B1 Network address translation using a forwarding agent Electricity 244 Expired
US6742045B1 Handling packet fragments in a distributed network service environment Electricity 165 Expired
US6970913B1 Load balancing using distributed forwarding agents with application based feedback for different virtual machines Electricity 149 Expired
US6687222B1 Backup service managers for providing reliable network services in a distributed environment Electricity 146 Expired
US6549516B1 Sending instructions from a service manager to forwarding agents on a need to know basis Electricity 145 Expired
US9872637B2 Medical evaluation system and method using sensors in mobile devices Human Necessities 108 Active
US6775692B1 Proxying and unproxying a connection using a forwarding agent Electricity 102 Expired
US6606315B1 Synchronizing service instructions among forwarding agents using a service manager Electricity 89 Expired
US6633560B1 Distribution of network services among multiple service managers without client involvement Electricity 86 Expired
US7443847B1 Stateful failover of service managers Electricity 84 Active
US5793983A Input/output channel interface which automatically deallocates failed subchannel and re-segments data block for transmitting over a reassigned subchannel Electricity 77 Expired
US6735169B1 Cascading multiple services on a forwarding agent Electricity 77 Expired
US7443796B1 Distributed, rule based packet redirection Electricity 69 Active
US6891839B2 Distributing packets among multiple tiers of network appliances Electricity 67 Expired
US6704278B1 Stateful failover of service managers Electricity 61 Expired
US6836462B1 Distributed, rule based packet redirection Electricity 58 Expired
US7051066B1 Integrating service managers into a routing infrastructure using forwarding agents Electricity 53 Expired
US7346686B2 Load balancing using distributed forwarding agents with application based feedback for different virtual machines Electricity 49 Expired
US7958238B1 System and method for managing network access for an end user Electricity 47 Expired
US6061807A Methods systems and computer products for error recovery of endpoint nodes Electricity 46 Expired
US6606316B1 Gathering network statistics in a distributed network service environment Electricity 45 Expired
US6985440B1 Network address translation using a forwarding agent Electricity 35 Expired
US6628654B1 Dispatching packets from a forwarding agent using tag switching Electricity 35 Expired
US7131140B1 Method for protecting a firewall load balancer from a denial of service attack Electricity 30 Expired
US7042870B1 Sending instructions from a service manager to forwarding agents on a need to know basis Electricity 29 Expired

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