Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Tim Millet

31Patents
15h-index
11Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 28, 2000 → Dec 20, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7177311B1 System and method for routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch Electricity 201 Expired
US7376125B1 Service processing switch Electricity 130 Expired
US7161904B2 System and method for hierarchical metering in a virtual router based network switch Electricity 118 Expired
US7266120B2 System and method for hardware accelerated packet multicast in a virtual routing system Electricity 93 Expired
US7203192B2 Network packet steering Electricity 67 Expired
US7181547B1 Identifying nodes in a ring network Electricity 56 Expired
US8111690B2 Routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch Electricity 52 Active
US6901500B1 Method and apparatus for prefetching information and storing the information in a stream buffer Physics 37 Expired
US7522604B2 Routing traffic through a virtual router-based network switch Electricity 35 Active
US7720053B2 Service processing switch Electricity 33 Active
US7668087B2 Hierarchical metering in a virtual router-based network switch Electricity 31 Active
US7933269B2 Hardware-accelerated packet multicasting in a virtual routing system Electricity 26 Active
US8848718B2 Hierarchical metering in a virtual router-based network switch Electricity 19 Active
US8208409B2 Identifying nodes in a ring network Electricity 16 Active
US8064462B2 Service processing switch Electricity 15 Active
US7890663B2 Identifying nodes in a ring network Electricity 15 Active
US8068503B2 Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and netmods or line interface ports Electricity 15 Active
US8306040B2 Network packet steering via configurable association of processing resources and network interfaces Electricity 13 Active
US8542595B2 Service processing switch Electricity 12 Active
US9143351B2 Identifying nodes in a ring network Electricity 11 Active
US8644311B2 Hardware-accelerated packet multicasting in a virtual routing system Electricity 8 Active
US7580373B2 Identifying nodes in a ring network Electricity 7 Active
US8638802B2 Network packet steering via configurable association of packet processing resources and network interfaces Electricity 6 Active
US9019833B2 Service processing switch Electricity 6 Active
US9602303B2 Identifying nodes in a ring network Electricity 2 Active

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