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Bruce Wilford — 25 Patents

Cisco: 14 patents #939 of 13,007Top 8%
ECEmc Ip Holding Company: 8 patents #580 of 4,608Top 15%
NSNetronome Systems: 2 patents #27 of 58Top 50%
EMEmc: 1 patents #1,879 of 3,345Top 60%
Los Altos, CA: #476 of 3,651 inventorsTop 15%
California: #22,079 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Bruce Wilford has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in May 2022. Bruce Wilford ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Bruce Wilford in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2019.peak 51996: 1 patents19962000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012003: 3 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062009: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11340794 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Mark Himelstein, James A. Yarbrough, Rick Carlson, Vishwas Durai, Vikram Venkataraghavan +5 more 2022-05-24
11010054 Exabyte-scale data processing system Mark Himelstein, Richard H. Van Gaasbeck, Todd Wilde, Rick Carlson, Vikram Venkataraghavan +3 more 2021-05-18
10713334 Data processing system with a scalable architecture over ethernet Mark Himelstein, Richard Van Gaasbeck, Todd Wilde, Rick Carlson, Vikram Venkataraghavan +3 more 2020-07-14
10515014 Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) mechanism for accessing memory with cache coherence Mark Himelstein, Kevin Rowett, Richard H. Van Gaasbeck, Todd Wilde, Rick Carlson +3 more 2019-12-24
10503416 Flash memory complex with a replication interface to replicate data to another flash memory complex of a data processing system Mark Himelstein, Richard H. Van Gaasbeck, Todd Wilde, Rick Carlson, Vikram Venkataraghavan +3 more 2019-12-10
10496284 Software-implemented flash translation layer policies in a data processing system Mark Himelstein, Richard H. Van Gaasbeck, Todd Wilde, Rick Carlson, Vikram Venkataraghavan +3 more 2019-12-03
10410693 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Frederic Roy Carlson, Jr., Mark Himelstein, Dan Arai, David R. Emberson 2019-09-10
10209904 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Mark Himelstein, James A. Yarbrough, Rick Carlson, Vishwas Durai, Vikram Venkataraghavan +5 more 2019-02-19
9899996 Recursive lookup with a hardware trie structure that has no sequential logic elements Gavin J. Stark 2018-02-20
9519615 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Frederic Roy Carlson, Jr., Mark Himelstein, Dan Arai, David R. Emberson 2016-12-13
8902902 Recursive lookup with a hardware trie structure that has no sequential logic elements Gavin J. Stark 2014-12-02
7558270 Architecture for high speed class of service enabled linecard Yie-Fong Dan 2009-07-07 $32,561,000
7031323 Method and apparatus for distributed bandwidth allocation for a bi-directional ring media with spatial and local reuse Hon Wah Chin, David Tsiang, Anthony Bates, Robert M. Broberg 2006-04-18 $31,232,000
6990099 Multiple parallel packet routing lookup 2006-01-24 $49,969,000
6968392 Method and apparatus providing improved statistics collection for high bandwidth interfaces supporting multiple connections Jan Medved, Stephan Crandall 2005-11-22 $52,760,000
6757791 Method and apparatus for reordering packet data units in storage queues for reading and writing memory Robert O'Grady, Sonny Tran, Yie-Fong Dan 2004-06-29 $61,445,000
6687247 Architecture for high speed class of service enabled linecard Yie-Fong Dan 2004-02-03 $82,654,000
6603765 Load sharing across flows Thomas Dejanovic 2003-08-05 $113,142,000
6567404 Multiprotocol packet recognition and switching 2003-05-20 $149,788,000
6512766 Enhanced internet packet routing lookup 2003-01-28 $120,464,000
6314110 Method and apparatus for distributed bandwidth allocation for a bi-directional ring media with spatial and local reuse Hon Wah Chin, David Tsiang, Anthony Bates, Robert M. Broberg 2001-11-06 $1,192,556,000
6212183 Multiple parallel packet routing lookup 2001-04-03 $278,530,000
6157641 Multiprotocol packet recognition and switching 2000-12-05 $829,397,000
6111877 Load sharing across flows Thomas Dejanovic 2000-08-29 $1,617,839,000
5509006 Apparatus and method for switching packets using tree memory Bruce Sherry, David Tsiang, Anthony Joseph Li 1996-04-16 $255,541,000