Inventor · Newburyport, MA, US

Robert W. Kebler

38Patents
7h-index
27Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 12, 2012 → Dec 29, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8958286B1 Fast reroute for multicast using maximally redundant trees Electricity 26 Active
US9571387B1 Forwarding using maximally redundant trees Electricity 17 Active
US8837479B1 Fast reroute between redundant multicast streams Electricity 15 Active
US9843513B2 Multicast flow overlay using registration over a reliable transport Electricity 11 Active
US9356789B1 Robust control plane assert for protocol independent multicast (PIM) Electricity 8 Active
US9674075B1 Multicast only fast re-route for PIM ASM mode Electricity 8 Active
US9660898B2 Enhanced protocol independent multicast source registration over a reliable transport Electricity 8 Active
US10554425B2 Maximally redundant trees to redundant multicast source nodes for multicast protection Electricity 6 Active
US10382217B1 Single actual-forwarder election in multicast VPNs Electricity 6 Active
US10104139B2 Selectively signaling selective tunnels in multicast VPNs Electricity 5 Active
US10193812B2 Multicast load balancing in multihoming EVPN networks Electricity 4 Active
US9838303B2 PIM source discovery by last hop router Electricity 4 Active
US11070386B2 Controlling an aggregate number of unique PIM joins in one or more PIM join/prune messages received from a PIM neighbor Electricity 4 Active
US11323279B1 Internet group management protocol host mobility in ethernet virtual private network multicast networks Electricity 4 Active
US11057235B1 Controlling protocol independent multicast (PIM) join/prune messages from a downstream PIM neighbor using a PIM join/prune response(s) from an upstream PIM neighbor Electricity 3 Active
US11233741B1 Replication mode selection for EVPN multicast Electricity 3 Active
US11902148B2 Weighted multicast join load balance Electricity 2 Active
US9998361B2 MLDP multicast only fast re-route over remote loop-free alternate backup path Electricity 1 Active
US9838210B1 Robust control plane assert for protocol independent multicast (PIM) Electricity 1 Active
US11516115B2 Weighted multicast join load balance Electricity 1 Active
US11496329B2 EVPN multicast ingress forwarder election using source-active route Electricity 1 Active
US11477113B2 Weighted multicast join load balance General 0 Revoked
US10999090B2 Multicast flow prioritization Electricity 0 Active
US10771383B2 Coordinating pseudowire connection characteristics and multi-homed provider edge device capabilities Electricity 0 Active
US11349749B2 Node protection for bum traffic for multi-homed node failure Electricity 0 Active

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