Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Nilesh Shah

34Patents
6h-index
33Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: May 21, 2012 → Mar 4, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8948181B2 System and method for optimizing next-hop table space in a dual-homed network environment Electricity 45 Active
US9258266B2 Host detection by top of rack switch devices in data center environments Electricity 15 Active
US9311133B1 Touchless multi-domain VLAN based orchestration in a network environment Physics 14 Active
US9860116B1 Physical network orchestration for data centers Electricity 9 Active
US9515930B2 Intelligent handling of virtual machine mobility in large data center environments Electricity 9 Active
US9537793B2 Ensuring any-to-any reachability with opportunistic layer 3 forwarding in massive scale data center environments Electricity 8 Active
US9294349B2 Host traffic driven network orchestration within data center fabric Electricity 6 Active
US9008095B2 System and method for hardware-based learning of internet protocol addresses in a network environment Electricity 6 Active
US9557221B1 Interferometer for Fourier transform infrared spectrometry Physics 5 Active
US9565105B2 Implementation of virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) in top-of-rack switches in a network environment Electricity 4 Active
US9660938B2 Two-stage port-channel resolution in a multistage fabric switch Electricity 4 Active
US10523504B1 Physical network orchestration for data centers Electricity 4 Active
US9282033B2 Intelligent handling of virtual machine mobility in large data center environments Electricity 3 Active
US9513970B2 Optimizing handling of virtual machine mobility in data center environments Electricity 3 Active
US8902888B2 Two-stage port-channel resolution in a multistage fabric switch Electricity 2 Active
US8804531B2 Methods and apparatus for load balancing across member ports for traffic egressing out of a port channel Electricity 2 Active
US9647849B2 “Slow-start” problem in data center networks and a potential solution Electricity 2 Active
US9438475B1 Supporting relay functionality with a distributed layer 3 gateway Electricity 2 Active
US10880248B2 Orchestrator agnostic application container visibility Physics 2 Active
US10476700B2 Techniques for interconnection of controller- and protocol-based virtual networks Electricity 1 Active
US9203781B2 Extending virtual station interface discovery protocol (VDP) and VDP-like protocols for dual-homed deployments in data center environments Electricity 1 Active
US11082476B2 Computerized system and method for automatically providing networked devices non-native functionality Electricity 1 Active
US9531643B2 Extending virtual station interface discovery protocol (VDP) and VDP-like protocols for dual-homed deployments in data center environments Electricity 1 Active
US10142264B2 Techniques for integration of blade switches with programmable fabric Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9183322B2 Increasing internet protocol version 6 host table scalability in top of rack switches for data center deployments Electricity 1 Active

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