Inventor · San Ramon, CA, US

Sami Boutros

125Patents
21h-index
105Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 14, 2000 → Jul 28, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US10805181B2 Service operation chaining Electricity 167 Active
US9118572B2 Redundancy for inter-AS L2VPN service with optimal forwarding Electricity 86 Active
US9503363B2 Segment routing label switch paths in network functions virtualization communications networks Electricity 70 Active
US9979629B2 Distribution of segment identifiers in network functions virtualization and software defined network environments Electricity 63 Active
US6854063B1 Method and apparatus for optimizing firewall processing Electricity 63 Expired
US10659252B2 Specifying and utilizing paths through a network Electricity 55 Active
US9979602B1 Network function virtualization infrastructure pod in a network environment Electricity 53 Active
US10797966B2 Service operation chaining Electricity 52 Active
US10728174B2 Incorporating layer 2 service between two interfaces of gateway device Electricity 52 Active
US10797910B2 Specifying and utilizing paths through a network Electricity 50 Active
US10805192B2 Detecting failure of layer 2 service using broadcast messages Electricity 48 Active
US8724627B2 Single-homing and active-active multi-homing in a virtual private LAN service Electricity 44 Active
US8908517B2 Traffic distribution across a plurality of attachment circuits of a multihome site with a computer network using hashing algorithm Electricity 42 Active
US9548959B2 Address resolution suppression for data center interconnect Electricity 42 Active
US9634929B2 Using context labels to scale MAC tables on computer network edge devices Electricity 40 Active
US11038782B2 Detecting failure of layer 2 service using broadcast messages Electricity 36 Active
US10091161B2 Assignment of router ID for logical routers Electricity 27 Active
US10454758B2 Edge node cluster network redundancy and fast convergence using an underlay anycast VTEP IP Electricity 23 Active
US10341236B2 Anycast edge service gateways Electricity 22 Active
US10250494B2 Segment routing label switch paths in network functions virtualization communications networks Electricity 22 Active
US9634893B2 Auto-provisioning edge devices in a communication network using control plane communications Electricity 22 Active
US11265187B2 Specifying and utilizing paths through a network Electricity 18 Active
US9531627B1 Selecting a remote path using forwarding path preferences Electricity 15 Active
US11336556B2 Route exchange between logical routers in different datacenters Electricity 14 Active
US11316773B2 Configuring edge device with multiple routing tables Electricity 14 Active

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