Inventor · San Mateo, CA, US

W. Andrew Lambeth

64Patents
21h-index
35Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 6, 2011 → Jul 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8717895B2 Network virtualization apparatus and method with a table mapping engine Electricity 140 Active
US8825900B1 Method and apparatus for stateless transport layer tunneling Electricity 110 Active
US8750164B2 Hierarchical managed switch architecture Electricity 94 Active
US8959215B2 Network virtualization Electricity 76 Active
US9195491B2 Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes Electricity 68 Active
US8964528B2 Method and apparatus for robust packet distribution among hierarchical managed switching elements Electricity 61 Active
US9762619B1 Multi-layer policy definition and enforcement framework for network virtualization Electricity 55 Active
US9548924B2 Detecting an elephant flow based on the size of a packet Electricity 54 Active
US8750119B2 Network control apparatus and method with table mapping engine Electricity 49 Active
US8718070B2 Distributed network virtualization apparatus and method Electricity 47 Active
US8837493B2 Distributed network control apparatus and method Electricity 37 Active
US8743888B2 Network control apparatus and method Electricity 35 Active
US10193771B2 Detecting and handling elephant flows Electricity 33 Active
US10880158B2 Identifying the realization status of logical entities based on a global realization number Electricity 32 Active
US10243797B2 Identifying the realization status of logical entities based on a global realization number Electricity 30 Active
US10241820B2 Determining the realization status of logical entities in logical networks Physics 30 Active
US8817620B2 Network virtualization apparatus and method Electricity 29 Active
US9306910B2 Private allocated networks over shared communications infrastructure Electricity 28 Active
US8964598B2 Mesh architectures for managed switching elements Electricity 25 Active
US9888097B2 Private allocated networks over shared communications infrastructure Electricity 25 Active
US9137107B2 Physical controllers for converting universal flows Electricity 22 Active
US10103939B2 Network control apparatus and method for populating logical datapath sets Electricity 21 Active
US9112811B2 Managed switching elements used as extenders Electricity 20 Active
US9350657B2 Encapsulating data packets using an adaptive tunnelling protocol Electricity 18 Active
US9552219B2 Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes Electricity 18 Active

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