Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Toerless Eckert

50Patents
9h-index
67Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 29, 2000 → Aug 11, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7761500B1 URL based communication protocol from a client computer to a network device Electricity 192 Expired
US7418003B1 PIM sparse mode to source specific multicast conversion Electricity 49 Expired
US7529199B1 System and method for resolving conflicts in proxy routing information associated with multicast distribution trees Electricity 47 Active
US7848224B2 Method and apparatus for constructing a repair path for multicast data Electricity 19 Active
US7701938B1 Advanced multicast support for cable Electricity 17 Active
US9667635B2 Creating three-party trust relationships for internet of things applications Electricity 14 Active
US8886934B2 Authorizing physical access-links for secure network connections Electricity 13 Active
US10785809B1 Coordinating zero touch network joins Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US8040884B2 Constraining multicast traffic between a layer 2 network device and a router Electricity 11 Active
US7835276B2 Admission control mechanism for multicast receivers Electricity 9 Active
US8259612B2 Method of routing multicast traffic Electricity 8 Active
US10122614B2 Failure protection for traffic-engineered bit indexed explicit replication Electricity 8 Active
US7716363B1 Method and apparatus of providing zero configuration single source multicasting reporting Electricity 6 Active
US8111702B1 Configuring route properties for use in transport tree building Electricity 6 Active
US8909726B1 Priority based anycast routing Electricity 6 Active
US10341221B2 Traffic engineering for bit indexed explicit replication Electricity 5 Active
US10958566B2 Traffic engineering for bit indexed explicit replication Electricity 5 Active
US7852841B2 In-band multicast signaling using LDP Electricity 5 Active
US8427959B2 Bandwidth based selection for routing data Electricity 5 Active
US8184628B2 Network based multicast stream duplication and merging Electricity 5 Active
US7987259B2 Method and system for providing ad-splicer redundancy in a cable/MSO network Electricity 4 Active
US8427943B2 Bandwidth-aware multicast load balancing on a multi-interface host Electricity 4 Active
US9391959B2 Automated control plane for limited user destruction Electricity 4 Active
US8018964B2 Multicast operations using prioritized state information Electricity 4 Active
US10341222B2 Traffic engineering for bit indexed explicit replication Electricity 4 Active

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