Inventor · Greensboro, NC, US

Natarajan Vaidhyanathan

99Patents
16h-index
65Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 5, 2000 → Jun 12, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9571502B2 Priority resolution for access control list policies in a networking device Electricity 103 Active
US6658481B1 Router uses a single hierarchy independent routing table that includes a flag to look-up a series of next hop routers for routing packets Electricity 56 Expired
US9438447B2 Flow distribution algorithm for aggregated links in an ethernet switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Active
US7336667B2 Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use CRC in communications network Electricity 49 Expired
US6792423B1 Hybrid longest prefix match and fixed match searches Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US7529224B2 Scheduler, network processor, and methods for weighted best effort scheduling Electricity 41 Active
US6954459B1 Method for forwarding broadcast packets in a bridged IP network Electricity 32 Expired
US6721800B1 System using weighted next hop option in routing table to include probability of routing a packet for providing equal cost multipath forwarding packets Electricity 31 Expired
US6760776B1 Method and apparatus for processing network frames in a network processor by embedding network control information such as routing and filtering information in each received frame Electricity 27 Expired
US6907469B1 Method for bridging and routing data frames via a network switch comprising a special guided tree handler processor Electricity 26 Expired
US7586936B2 Host Ethernet adapter for networking offload in server environment Electricity 24 Active
US7050940B2 Method and system for maintaining and examining timers for network connections Electricity 21 Expired
US6987735B2 System and method for enhancing the availability of routing systems through equal cost multipath Electricity 18 Expired
US7280527B2 Logically grouping physical ports into logical interfaces to expand bandwidth Electricity 17 Expired
US8218554B2 Generation and use of CRC in communications network Electricity 17 Active
US8179897B2 Generation and use of CRC in communications network Electricity 17 Active
US7003582B2 Robust NP-based data forwarding techniques that tolerate failure of control-based applications Electricity 13 Expired
US7283529B2 Method and system for supporting a dedicated label switched path for a virtual private network over a label switched communication network Electricity 12 Expired
US7715428B2 Multicore communication processing Electricity 9 Active
US6772222B1 Multicast forwarding table processor Electricity 9 Expired
US7697536B2 Network communications for operating system partitions Electricity 8 Active
US6675221B1 Method and apparatus for customizing and fowarding parameters in a network processor Electricity 8 Expired
US7260096B2 Method and router for forwarding internet data packets Electricity 8 Expired
US7362744B2 Database management system and method of using it to transmit packets Electricity 6 Expired
US7474672B2 Frame alteration logic for network processors Electricity 5 Expired

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