Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Samar Sharma

106Patents
19h-index
75Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 15, 2000 → Jul 11, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8239477B2 Apparatus and methods for controlling a data tapping session in a storage area network Physics 206 Active
US9246702B1 System and method for configuring service appliances as virtual line cards in a network environment Electricity 118 Active
US9444744B1 Line-rate selective load balancing of permitted network traffic Electricity 80 Active
US9432294B1 Utilizing user-specified access control lists in conjunction with redirection and load-balancing on a port Electricity 77 Active
US6717946B1 Methods and apparatus for mapping ranges of values into unique values of particular use for range matching operations using an associative memory Physics 73 Expired
US9088584B2 System and method for non-disruptive management of servers in a network environment Physics 60 Active
US7793138B2 Anomaly detection for storage traffic in a data center Electricity 59 Active
US6725326B1 Techniques for efficient memory management for longest prefix match problems Physics 53 Expired
US7313666B1 Methods and apparatus for longest common prefix based caching Electricity 42 Expired
US8274993B2 Fibre channel dynamic zoning Electricity 38 Active
US7609649B1 Methods and apparatus for improving network based virtualization performance Electricity 37 Active
US9009427B2 Mirroring mechanisms for storage area networks and network based virtualization Physics 27 Active
US7711820B2 High availability for intelligent applications in storage networks Electricity 23 Active
US9954783B1 System and method for minimizing disruption from failed service nodes Electricity 21 Active
US6816489B1 Efficient method for packet switching on asynchronous transfer mode switch based platforms Electricity 20 Expired
US6516383B1 Techniques for efficient location of free entries for TCAM inserts Physics 20 Expired
US8165136B1 Virtual port based SPAN Electricity 20 Active
US7478109B1 Identification of a longest matching prefix based on a search of intervals corresponding to the prefixes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US7765194B1 Detection and enforcement of version compatibility in network devices Physics 19 Active
US7475142B2 CIFS for scalable NAS architecture Electricity 18 Active
US7437507B2 Online restriping technique for distributed network based virtualization Physics 17 Expired
US7356573B2 Apparatus and methods for data tapping in a storage area network Electricity 17 Expired
US9825865B1 Statistical operations associated with network traffic forwarding Electricity 16 Active
US7506124B2 Apparatus and methods for facilitating data tapping with host clustering in a storage area network Electricity 15 Active
US7558775B1 Methods and apparatus for maintaining sets of ranges typically using an associative memory and for using these ranges to identify a matching range based on a query point or query range and to maintain sorted elements for use such as in providing priority queue operations Electricity 14 Expired

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