Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Michael R. Smith

76Patents
18h-index
77Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 18, 1995 → Sep 30, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8102781B2 Dynamic distribution of virtual machines in a communication network Electricity 184 Active
US8345692B2 Virtual switching overlay for cloud computing Electricity 149 Active
US8213336B2 Distributed data center access switch Electricity 120 Active
US8134922B2 Reducing flooding in a bridged network Electricity 102 Active
US5833795A Magnetic particle integrated adhesive and associated method of repairing a composite material product Performing Operations; Transporting 61 Expired
US6515969B1 Virtual local area network membership registration protocol for multiple spanning tree network environments Electricity 48 Expired
US9178812B2 Stacking metadata contexts for service chains Electricity 47 Active
US8589919B2 Traffic forwarding for virtual machines Electricity 42 Active
US7751416B2 Virtual network device Electricity 41 Active
US7530112B2 Method and apparatus for providing network security using role-based access control Electricity 37 Expired
US7139928B1 Method and system for providing redundancy within a network element Electricity 32 Expired
US7836490B2 Method and apparatus for providing network security using security labeling Electricity 29 Active
US7286491B1 Virtual local area network membership registration protocol for multiple spanning tree network environments Electricity 23 Expired
US7794585B2 Hydrocarbon conversion process Chemistry; Metallurgy 23 Active
US7639605B2 System and method for detecting and recovering from virtual switch link failures Electricity 21 Active
US8539571B2 Method and apparatus for providing network security using security labeling Electricity 19 Active
US7669244B2 Method and system for generating user group permission lists Electricity 19 Active
US7790020B2 Hydrocarbon conversion process to improve cetane number Chemistry; Metallurgy 19 Active
US7782841B2 Method and system for transporting data using pseudowire circuits over a bridged network Electricity 15 Active
US7652181B1 Alkylation reactor design with effluent recycle and impure benzene regeneration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US7794588B2 Hydrocarbon conversion process to decrease polyaromatics Chemistry; Metallurgy 15 Active
US7821981B2 Satellite switch communication over a network Electricity 14 Active
US7292569B1 Distributed router forwarding architecture employing global translation indices Electricity 14 Expired
US7827402B2 Method and apparatus for ingress filtering using security group information Electricity 13 Active
US8363666B2 Multiple network architecture providing for migration of devices Electricity 13 Active

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