Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Michael Yip

28Patents
16h-index
38Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 3, 1998 → Oct 3, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6104700A Policy based quality of service Electricity 886 Expired
US6678248B1 Policy based quality of service Electricity 197 Expired
US6766482B1 Ethernet automatic protection switching Electricity 120 Expired
US7558273B1 Methods and systems for associating and translating virtual local area network (VLAN) tags Electricity 114 Active
US6859438B2 Policy based quality of service Electricity 93 Expired
US6954436B1 Method and apparatus for selecting redundant routers using tracking Electricity 84 Expired
US6914905B1 Method and system for VLAN aggregation Electricity 83 Expired
US6023471A Network interconnect device and protocol for communicating data among packet forwarding devices Electricity 73 Expired
US6912592B2 Method and system of aggregate multiple VLANs in a metropolitan area network Electricity 52 Expired
US7003705B1 Ethernet automatic protection switching Electricity 46 Expired
US7245619B1 Method and apparatus for managing routes Electricity 25 Expired
US7245629B1 Method and apparatus for a control communication channel in a packet-forwarding device Electricity 23 Expired
US6618388B2 Method and system for VMAN protocol Electricity 22 Expired
US7783733B1 Method and apparatus for dynamic configuration management Electricity 19 Expired
US7290263B1 Method and system for a scriptable command line interface Physics 17 Expired
US7502374B1 System for deriving hash values for packets in a packet processing system Electricity 16 Expired
US8751647B1 Method and apparatus for network login authorization Electricity 16 Expired
US7334048B1 Method and apparatus for fast route table update Electricity 14 Expired
US7792058B1 Method and system for VLAN aggregation Electricity 14 Active
US7389505B2 Method and apparatus for modifying software Physics 10 Expired
US7581024B1 Method and system for increasing participation in a standby router protocol Electricity 9 Active
US7936687B1 Systems for statistics gathering and sampling in a packet processing system Electricity 8 Active
US7376951B1 Method and apparatus for controlling process dependencies Physics 6 Expired
US7689678B2 Method and apparatus for restoring the configuration of a network device Electricity 5 Expired
US7646773B2 Forwarding database in a network switch device Electricity 4 Active

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