Silvano Gai
71Patents
32h-index
54Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 23, 1997 → May 20, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.