David Gilson — 11 Patents at Ciena

David Gilson has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in October 2025. David Gilson ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list David Gilson in Honolulu, HI, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12452168	Simplification of layer 2 VPLS control plane	Sami Boutros, Muthurajah Sivabalan, Tao Wang, Mathieu Pepin	2025-10-21
12141050	Lightweight software probe and inject gadgets for system software validation	Padma Sanampudi, Bruce T. Jorgens	2024-11-12	$77,451,000
11863350	Fast convergence of E-Tree with a dual homed root node	Sami Boutros, Muthurajah Sivabalan	2024-01-02	$51,698,000
10608954	Hierarchical resource tree allocation	Kyle Gosselin-Harris	2020-03-31	$32,761,000
10425153	Generalized service protection systems and methods	Marc Holness, Stephen Shew	2019-09-24
10108677	Software precedence in ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM)	—	2018-10-23	$7,521,000
9264254	Generalized service protection systems and methods	Marc Holness, Stephen Shew	2016-02-16	$4,837,000
9203746	Hierarchical resource management for switch assembly systems	Kyle Gosselin-Harris, Michael S. Chartier	2015-12-01	$5,273,000
8929254	Systems and methods for constrained forwarding based packet network connectivity	Jie Hu, Raghuraman Ranganathan	2015-01-06	$6,085,000
8355317	Transaction-based coordination of data object modification for primary and backup control circuitry	Jie Hu, Jennifer A. Smith, Andrew Patrick Schultz, Michael John Chartier	2013-01-15
8199750	Communicating with a control plane using a forwarding information format and control plane processing of packets devoid of a virtual switch identifier	Andrew Patrick Schultz, Keith Michael Bly, Kelly Donald Fromm, Dennis Weaver	2012-06-12

David Gilson — 11 Patents

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