Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Silvano Gai

71Patents
32h-index
54Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 23, 1997 → May 20, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6167445A Method and apparatus for defining and implementing high-level quality of service policies in computer networks Electricity 750 Expired
US6651101B1 Method and apparatus for identifying network data traffic flows and for applying quality of service treatments to the flows Electricity 364 Expired
US7225188B1 System and method for performing regular expression matching with high parallelism Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 285 Expired
US6032194A Method and apparatus for rapidly reconfiguring computer networks Electricity 248 Expired
US7185073B1 Method and apparatus for defining and implementing high-level quality of service policies in computer networks Electricity 239 Expired
US6286052A Method and apparatus for identifying network data traffic flows and for applying quality of service treatments to the flows Electricity 219 Expired
US6188694A Shared spanning tree protocol Electricity 215 Expired
US6697360B1 Method and apparatus for auto-configuring layer three intermediate computer network devices Electricity 185 Expired
US6651096B1 Method and apparatus for organizing, storing and evaluating access control lists Electricity 184 Expired
US6892237B1 Method and apparatus for high-speed parsing of network messages Electricity 174 Expired
US7599360B2 Methods and apparatus for encapsulating a frame for transmission in a storage area network Electricity 135 Expired
US6665611B1 System for discovering and maintaining geographic location information in a computer network to enable emergency services Physics 129 Expired
US6678241B1 Fast convergence with topology switching Electricity 123 Expired
US6388995B1 Method and apparatus for rapidly reconfiguring computers networks executing the spanning tree algorithm Electricity 100 Expired
US6202114A Spanning tree with fast link-failure convergence Electricity 95 Expired
US6831898B1 Multiple packet paths to improve reliability in an IP network Electricity 88 Expired
US6535491B2 Method and apparatus for rapidly reconfiguring computer networks using a spanning tree algorithm Electricity 87 Expired
US6714985B1 Method and apparatus for efficiently reassembling fragments received at an intermediate station in a computer network Electricity 86 Expired
US7830793B2 Network device architecture for consolidating input/output and reducing latency Electricity 81 Active
US6434624B1 Method and apparatus for identifying network data traffic flows and for applying quality of service treatments to the flows Electricity 76 Expired
US6219739A Spanning tree with fast link-failure convergence Electricity 75 Expired
US7149499B1 System for dynamically tracking the location of network devices to enable emergency services Electricity 74 Expired
US6813250B1 Shared spanning tree protocol Electricity 68 Expired
US7564869B2 Fibre channel over ethernet Electricity 65 Active
US7130272B1 Method and apparatus for performing high-speed traffic shaping Electricity 64 Expired

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