Inventor · Champaign, IL, US

Robert Kidd

29Patents
12h-index
9Co-inventors
66Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 24, 2019 → Jul 7, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US11140218B2 Distributed service chain across multiple clouds Electricity 29 Active
US10834669B2 Stateful network slice selection using replay of connection handshake Electricity 23 Active
US11012288B2 Congestion avoidance in a slice-based network Electricity 20 Active
US10939369B2 Retrieval of slice selection state for mobile device connection Electricity 20 Active
US11283717B2 Distributed fault tolerant service chain Electricity 18 Active
US11024144B2 Redirecting traffic from mobile device to initial slice selector for connection Electricity 17 Active
US11108643B2 Performing ingress side control through egress side limits on forwarding elements Physics 16 Active
US11146964B2 Hierarchical network slice selection Electricity 15 Active
US11246087B2 Stateful network slice selection using slice selector as connection termination proxy Electricity 15 Active
US11178016B2 Performing slice based operations in a data plane circuit Physics 15 Active
US11240113B2 Forwarding element slice identifying control plane Physics 14 Active
US11522764B2 Forwarding element with physical and virtual data planes Physics 12 Active
US11483762B2 Virtual service networks Physics 12 Active
US11722559B2 Distributed service chain across multiple clouds Electricity 6 Active
US11044193B2 Dynamic multipathing using programmable data plane circuits in hardware forwarding elements Electricity 2 Active
US10944647B2 Dynamic inter-cloud placement of virtual network functions for a slice Electricity 1 Active
US10897423B2 Congestion avoidance in a slice-based network Electricity 1 Active
US11115292B2 Dynamic slice bandwidth multiplexing based on slice priority Electricity 1 Active
US10979314B2 Dynamic inter-cloud placement of virtual network functions for a slice Physics 1 Active
US10892994B2 Quality of service in virtual service networks Electricity 0 Active
US11329901B2 Dynamic inter-cloud placement of virtual network functions for a slice Electricity 0 Active
US12132780B2 Distributed service chain across multiple clouds Electricity 0 Active
US11356338B2 Dynamic inter-cloud placement of virtual network functions for a slice Physics 0 Active
US11522791B2 Dynamic multipathing using programmable data plane circuits in hardware forwarding elements Electricity 0 Active
US11902080B2 Congestion avoidance in a slice-based network Electricity 0 Active

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