Inventor · New Rochelle, NY, US

Yakov Rekhter

70Patents
30h-index
31Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 10, 1996 → Dec 7, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6339595B1 Peer-model support for virtual private networks with potentially overlapping addresses Electricity 395 Expired
US6526056B1 Virtual private network employing tag-implemented egress-channel selection Electricity 265 Expired
US7787380B1 Resource reservation protocol with traffic engineering point to multi-point label switched path hierarchy Electricity 233 Active
US5917820A Efficient packet forwarding arrangement for routing packets in an internetwork Electricity 216 Expired
US6697360B1 Method and apparatus for auto-configuring layer three intermediate computer network devices Electricity 185 Expired
US7463639B1 Edge devices for providing a transparent LAN segment service and configuring such edge devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 166 Expired
US6463061B1 Shared communications network employing virtual-private-network identifiers Electricity 162 Expired
US7359377B1 Graceful restart for use in nodes employing label switched path signaling protocols Electricity 155 Expired
US6597663B1 Technique for handling forwarding transients with link state routing protocol Electricity 129 Expired
US6078590A Hierarchical routing knowledge for multicast packet routing Electricity 110 Expired
US7957386B1 Inter-autonomous system (AS) multicast virtual private networks Electricity 106 Active
US8310957B1 Minimum-cost spanning trees of unicast tunnels for multicast distribution Electricity 97 Active
US5964841A Technique for handling forwarding transients with link state routing protocol Electricity 76 Expired
US7369556B1 Router for virtual private network employing tag switching Electricity 62 Expired
US7307990B2 Shared communications network employing virtual-private-network identifiers Electricity 60 Expired
US7668166B1 Peer-model support for virtual private networks having potentially overlapping addresses Electricity 58 Active
US6704795B1 Technique for reducing consumption of router resources after BGP restart Electricity 54 Expired
US7522599B1 Label switching multicast trees for multicast virtual private networks Electricity 53 Active
US7519010B1 Inter-autonomous system (AS) multicast virtual private networks Electricity 51 Active
US7558219B1 Multicast trees for virtual private local area network (LAN) service multicast Electricity 44 Active
US7564806B1 Aggregate multicast trees for multicast virtual private networks Electricity 43 Active
US8571029B1 Label switched path hierarchy for intra-area segments of inter-area point-to-multipoint label switched paths Electricity 43 Active
US7522600B1 Transport of control and data traffic for multicast virtual private networks Electricity 41 Active
US6611528B1 Hierarchical routing knowledge for multicast packet routing Electricity 38 Expired
US7570605B1 Multicast data trees for multicast virtual private networks Electricity 37 Active

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