Inventor · San Ramon, CA, US

Surendra M. Kumar

49Patents
20h-index
55Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 18, 1994 → Sep 30, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9407540B2 Distributed service chaining in a network environment Electricity 93 Active
US9344337B2 Service node originated service chains in a network environment Electricity 73 Active
US9608896B2 Service node originated service chains in a network environment Electricity 71 Active
US10237379B2 High-efficiency service chaining with agentless service nodes Electricity 59 Active
US10084703B2 Infrastructure-exclusive service forwarding Electricity 58 Active
US9379931B2 System and method for transporting information to services in a network environment Electricity 53 Active
US10284390B2 Techniques for efficient service chain analytics Electricity 52 Active
US9300585B2 Shortening of service paths in service chains in a communications network Electricity 50 Active
US9130872B2 Workload based service chain insertion in a network environment Electricity 49 Active
US9178812B2 Stacking metadata contexts for service chains Electricity 47 Active
US9479443B2 System and method for transporting information to services in a network environment Electricity 46 Active
US9794379B2 High-efficiency service chaining with agentless service nodes Electricity 46 Active
US9398486B2 Conveying subscriber information to service chain services using tunnel protocol header encapsulation for mobile network applications in a network environment Electricity 44 Active
US9385950B2 Configurable service proxy local identifier mapping Electricity 42 Active
US9559970B2 Shortening of service paths in service chains in a communications network Electricity 39 Active
US9444675B2 Determining the operations performed along a service path/service chain Electricity 39 Active
US9363183B2 Network address translation offload to network infrastructure for service chains in a network environment Electricity 36 Active
US10931793B2 System and method for automated rendering of service chaining Electricity 32 Active
US9614739B2 Defining service chains in terms of service functions Electricity 32 Active
US9467382B2 Elastic service chains Electricity 29 Active
US9178828B2 Architecture for agentless service insertion Physics 10 Active
US5561062A Method of inhibiting viral reproduction using non-phospholipid, paucilamellar liposomes Human Necessities 9 Expired
US9806962B2 Determining the operations performed along a service path/service chain Electricity 8 Active
US10361969B2 System and method for managing chained services in a network environment Electricity 7 Active
US10153951B2 Determining the operations performed along a service path/service chain Electricity 6 Active

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