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Somnath Viswanath — 33 Patents

AMD: 31 patents #318 of 9,280Top 4%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
Sunnyvale, CA: #677 of 14,302 inventorsTop 5%
California: #15,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Somnath Viswanath has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in August 2015. Somnath Viswanath ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Somnath Viswanath in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2005.peak 92000: 5 patents20002004: 5 patents20042005: 9 patents20052006: 4 patents20062008: 1 patents20082009: 4 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9106625 Two parallel engines for high speed transmit IPSEC processing Marufa Kaniz, Jeffrey Dwork, Robert Alan Williams, Mohammad Y. Maniar 2015-08-11 $1,758,000
8351445 Network interface systems and methods for offloading segmentation and/or checksumming with security processing Marufa Kaniz, Jeffrey Dwork, Chin-Wei Liang, Robert Alan Williams 2013-01-08 $1,920,000
8009584 System and method for implementing an IRC across multiple network devices Marufa Kaniz 2011-08-30 $4,140,000
7818563 Method to maximize hardware utilization in flow-thru IPsec processing Jeffrey Dwork, Robert Alan Williams 2010-10-19 $4,223,000
7685434 Two parallel engines for high speed transmit IPsec processing Marufa Kaniz, Jeffrey Dwork, Robert Alan Williams, Mohammad Y. Maniar 2010-03-23 $14,101,000
7624263 Security association table lookup architecture and method of operation Jeffrey Dwork, Robert Alan Williams, Marufa Kaniz, Mohammad Y. Maniar 2009-11-24 $15,588,000
7512787 Receive IPSEC in-line processing of mutable fields for AH algorithm Mohammad Y. Maniar, Jeffrey Dwork, Robert Alan Williams 2009-03-31 $10,920,000
7502366 Arrangement in a network switch for prioritizing data frames based on user-defined frame attributes Bahadir Erimli, Gopal Krishna, Chandan Egbert, Peter Ka-Fai Chow, Mrudula Kanuri +2 more 2009-03-10 $4,539,000
7502474 Network interface with security association data prefetch for high speed offloaded security processing Marufa Kaniz, Jeffrey Dwork, Robert Alan Williams, Mohammad Y. Maniar 2009-03-10 $4,539,000
7412726 Method and apparatus for out of order writing of status fields for receive IPsec processing 2008-08-12 $9,390,000
7099325 Alternately accessed parallel lookup tables for locating information in a packet switched network Marufa Kaniz 2006-08-29 $13,087,000
7099285 Remote configuration of a subnet configuration table in a network device Mrudula Kanuri, Gopal Krishna 2006-08-29 $13,087,000
7016352 Address modification within a switching device in a packet-switched network Peter Ka-Fai Chow, Shr-Jie Tzeng 2006-03-21 $13,217,000
6990102 Parallel lookup tables for locating information in a packet switched network Marufa Kaniz 2006-01-24 $11,964,000
6963565 Apparatus and method for identifying data packet at wire rate on a network switch port Gopal Krishna, Peter Ka-Fai Chow, Shr-Jie Tzeng 2005-11-08 $6,799,000
6963571 Systems and methods for merging packet lookup results Bahadir Erimli, Peter Ka-Fai Chow, Yatin R. Acharya 2005-11-08 $6,799,000
6963567 Single address lookup table with multiple address lookup engines running in parallel in a switch for a packet-switched network Marufa Kaniz 2005-11-08 $6,799,000
6963566 Multiple address lookup engines running in parallel in a switch for a packet-switched network Marufa Kaniz 2005-11-08 $6,799,000
6954427 Method and apparatus for performing priority-based admission control Gopal Krishna, Peter Ka-Fai Chow, Bahadir Erimli 2005-10-11 $12,751,000
6950434 Arrangement for searching packet policies using multi-key hash searches in a network switch Gopal Krishna 2005-09-27 $10,226,000
6925085 Packet classification using hash key signatures generated from interrupted hash function Gopal Krishna, Chandan Egbert 2005-08-02 $7,108,000
6885666 Apparatus and method in a network switch for synchronizing transfer of a control tag to a switch fabric with transfer of frame data to a buffer memory Peter Ka-Fai Chow 2005-04-26 $7,241,000
6839351 Parallel packet lookup in a packet-switched network Peter Ka-Fai Chow, Bahadir Erimli, Gopal Krishna 2005-01-04 $7,312,000
6816498 Method for aging table entries in a table supporting multi-key searches 2004-11-09 $3,568,000
6798788 Arrangement determining policies for layer 3 frame fragments in a network switch Mrudula Kanuri, Xiaohua Zhuang 2004-09-28 $1,915,000