Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Sameer Merchant

31Patents
8h-index
43Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 12, 2009 → Dec 26, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9755965B1 Forwarding tables for virtual networking devices Electricity 222 Active
US9654385B2 Multicast multipathing in an IP overlay network Electricity 63 Active
US9876715B2 Network fabric overlay Physics 42 Active
US9407501B2 Provisioning services in legacy mode in a data center network Electricity 40 Active
US11893358B1 Intent-based query and response routing between users and backend services Physics 15 Active
US8166187B2 Distributed IP gateway based on sharing a MAC address and IP address concurrently between a first network switching device and a second network switching device Electricity 12 Active
US9825857B2 Method for increasing Layer-3 longest prefix match scale Electricity 8 Active
US8694664B2 Active-active multi-homing support for overlay transport protocol Electricity 8 Active
US9363225B2 Connecting layer-2 domains over layer-3 networks Electricity 4 Active
US9373102B2 System and method using a simplified XML format for real-time content publication Electricity 4 Active
US11018898B2 Multicast multipathing in an overlay network Electricity 3 Active
US9379906B2 Network appliance with integrated local area network and storage area network extension services Electricity 3 Active
US10419496B2 Symmetric bi-directional policy based redirect of traffic flows Electricity 3 Active
US11415425B1 Apparatus having engine using artificial intelligence for detecting behavior anomalies in a computer network Electricity 3 Active
US10374878B2 Forwarding tables for virtual networking devices Electricity 2 Active
US8155003B2 Aggregate policing applying max-min fairness for each data source based on probabilistic filtering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US10020989B2 Provisioning services in legacy mode in a data center network Electricity 2 Active
US10547544B2 Network fabric overlay Physics 2 Active
US11811555B2 Multicast multipathing in an overlay network Electricity 2 Active
US10951522B2 IP-based forwarding of bridged and routed IP packets and unicast ARP Electricity 1 Active
US10530712B2 Handling reflexive ACLs with virtual port-channel Electricity 1 Active
US10374952B2 Method for increasing layer-3 longest prefix match scale Electricity 0 Active
US12299405B2 Intent-based query and response routing between users and backend services Physics 0 Active
US12182147B1 Natural language to customize data visualization Physics 0 Active
US12197452B1 Natural language to customize data visualization Physics 0 Active

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