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Alvaro Retana — 66 Patents

Cisco: 59 patents #115 of 13,007Top 1%
Huawei: 5 patents #2,641 of 15,535Top 20%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 1 patents #2,081 of 4,473Top 50%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 16,619Top 70%
Raleigh, NC: #67 of 6,378 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #352 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #32,599 of 4,157,543Top 1%
66 Patents All Time
Alvaro Retana has been granted 66 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in April 2024. Alvaro Retana ranks #32,599 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.78%). Patent records list Alvaro Retana in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2010.peak 102007: 2 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 5 patents20092010: 10 patents2011: 10 patents20112012: 4 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 5 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 7 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 3 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 66 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11973851 Supporting multiple border gateway protocol (BGP) sessions using multiple QUIC streams Yingzhen Qu 2024-04-30
11671517 Compressed data transmissions in networks implementing interior gateway protocol Uma S. Chunduri, Toerless Eckert 2023-06-06
11502940 Explicit backups and fast re-route mechanisms for preferred path routes in a network Uma S. Chunduri, Renwei Li, Toerless Eckert, Yingzhen Qu 2022-11-15
11496388 Resource reservation and maintenance for preferred path routes in a network Uma S. Chunduri, Renwei Li, Alexander Clemm, Lin Han, Yingzhen Qu 2022-11-08
11374848 Explicit routing with network function encoding Renwei Li, Yingzhen Qu 2022-06-28
10609621 Directed acyclic graph optimization for future time instance requested by a child network device Yi Yang 2020-03-31 $43,991,000
10225174 Apparatus and method to hide transit only multi-access networks in OSPF Yi Yang, James L. Ng, Abhay Roy, Alfred C. Lindem, III, Sina Mirtorabi +2 more 2019-03-05 $37,866,000
10015075 Directed acyclic graph optimization for future time instance advertised by a parent network device Yi Yang 2018-07-03 $51,090,000
9942145 Attribute SET_ID in border gateway protocol Yi Yang, Steven Moore, James L. Ng, Timothy M. Gage 2018-04-10 $38,084,000
9843498 Attribute set—ID in border gateway protocol Yi Yang, Steven Moore, James L. Ng, Timothy M. Gage 2017-12-12 $43,797,000
9742670 Non-eligible distance vector protocol paths as backup paths 2017-08-22 $47,145,000
9722919 Tying data plane paths to a secure control plane Roque Gagliano, Keyur Patel, Burjiz Pithawala, Ed Kern, Carlos M. Pignataro 2017-08-01 $22,787,000
9722910 Transit domain control Yi Yang, Keyur Patel, Fabien Degouet 2017-08-01 $22,787,000
9722911 Signaling existence of a network node that is in a reduced-power mode 2017-08-01 $14,965,000
9654482 Overcoming circular dependencies when bootstrapping an RPKI site Roque Gagliano, Keyur Patel 2017-05-16 $11,667,000
9641430 Verifying data plane paths based on a validated secure control plane Roque Gagliano, Keyur Patel, Carlos M. Pignataro 2017-05-02 $18,637,000
9413636 Network topologies for energy efficient networks Michael Barnes, Russell White, Alan Sheridan, Stanley M. Ratliff 2016-08-09 $21,562,000
9356856 Apparatus and method to hide transit only multi-access networks in OSPF Yi Yang, James L. Ng, Abhay Roy, Alfred C. Lindem, III, Sina Mirtorabi +2 more 2016-05-31 $36,385,000
9191227 Determining a route advertisement in a reactive routing environment Russell White, Steven Moore, James L. Ng 2015-11-17 $46,099,000
9124449 Network topologies for energy efficient networks Alan Sheridan, Russell White 2015-09-01 $25,757,000
9043487 Dynamically configuring and verifying routing information of broadcast networks using link state protocols in a computer network Alfred C. Lindem, III, Russ White 2015-05-26 $39,588,000
8964741 Adjacency discovery through multicast and single-hop messaging Thang Tat Do 2015-02-24 $23,682,000
8879392 BGP security update intercepts Jeffrey V. Zwall 2014-11-04 $12,514,000
8705539 Determining a route advertisement in a reactive routing environment Russell White, Steven Moore, James L. Ng 2014-04-22 $23,380,000
8699410 Method and apparatus for automatic sub-division of areas that flood routing information Russell White 2014-04-15 $28,073,000