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Chris O'Rourke — 62 Patents

Cisco: 62 patents #102 of 13,007Top 1%
Apex, NC: #23 of 1,394 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #394 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #36,550 of 4,157,543Top 1%
62 Patents All Time
Chris O'Rourke has been granted 62 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in March 2018. Chris O'Rourke ranks #36,550 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.88%). Patent records list Chris O'Rourke in Apex, NC, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 62 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9923728 System and method for associating an end user for billing in a network environment Robert Batz, Walter G. Dixon, Robert A. Mackie, Mark Albert, Humberto M. Tavares 2018-03-20 $34,574,000
9600332 Server load balancing based on virtual utilization, physical utilization, and feedback Alpesh Patel, Udayakumar Srinivasan, Mark Albert 2017-03-21 $24,195,000
9122537 Balancing server load according to availability of physical resources based on the detection of out-of-sequence packets Alpesh Patel, Mark Albert, Robert A. Mackie, Walter G. Dixon 2015-09-01 $25,757,000
9054882 System and method for associating an end user for billing in a network environment Robert Batz, Walter G. Dixon, Robert A. Mackie, Mark Albert, Humberto M. Tavares 2015-06-09 $31,475,000
9049015 Allowing TCP ACK to pass a gateway while queuing data for parsing Humberto M. Tavares, Robert Batz, Franklin Jones 2015-06-02 $23,393,000
8824300 System and method for using feedback to manage congestion in a network environment Kevin Shatzkamer, James C. Balquist 2014-09-02 $51,223,000
8555350 System and method for ensuring persistent communications between a client and an authentication server Kevin Shatzkamer, Anand Oswal, Mark Grayson, Jayaraman Iyer 2013-10-08 $31,256,000
8150951 System and method for communicating in a loadbalancing environment Robert Batz, Rabih A. Dabboussi, John M. Glotzer, Louis F. Menditto, Alpesh Patel +1 more 2012-04-03 $28,707,000
8036230 System and method for providing single IP tunnel Richard Landry Gray, Jayaraman Iyer, Louis F. Menditto, Humberto M. Tavares, Biswaranjan Panda +1 more 2011-10-11 $21,341,000
7924854 System and method for billing end users in a peer-to-peer transaction in a network environment Walter G. Dixon, Robert Batz, Robert A. Mackie, Mark Albert, Humberto M. Tavares 2011-04-12 $33,628,000
7894359 System and method for distributing information in a network environment Louis F. Menditto, Dwight R. Frye, Jr., Keith R. Schomburg, Robert A. Mackie, Mark Albert +4 more 2011-02-22 $34,780,000
7890662 System and method for providing unified IP presence Mark Albert, Richard Landry Gray, Robert A. Mackie 2011-02-15 $35,369,000
7843958 Resolving a layer 3 address in a processor system with a unified IP presence Mark Albert, Richard Landry Gray, Walter G. Dixon, Tzu-Ming Tsang, Wai-Tak Siu 2010-11-30 $26,882,000
7831489 Correlation of billing information by a network element Eric Hamel, Kevin Shatzkamer, Louis F. Menditto, Haihong Zhu 2010-11-09 $17,569,000
7826455 Providing single point-of-presence across multiple processors Nathan A. Mitchell, Mark Albert, Robert A. Mackie, Michael Sutton 2010-11-02 $26,658,000
7792128 Maintaining a content category cache at a gateway on a data path Robert Batz, Mark Albert, Walter G. Dixon, Thomas R. Bakita, Michael Sutton 2010-09-07 $19,348,000
7787465 System and method for providing source awareness in a wireless application protocol network environment Robert Batz 2010-08-31 $12,910,000
7770215 Method for protecting a firewall load balancer from a denial of service attack Gaurang Shah, Louis F. Menditto, Mark Albert, Michael Sutton, Pranav Kumar Tiwari +4 more 2010-08-03 $26,703,000
7756040 System and method for relaying information in order to enable services in a network environment Laurent Andriantsiferana, Jayaraman Iyer, Biswaranjan Panda, Ashish A. Chandwadkar, Louis F. Menditto 2010-07-13 $30,799,000
7734770 System and method for monitoring information in a network environment Thomas R. Bakita, Dwight R. Frye, Jr., Frank W. Pittenger, John G. White, Keith R. Schomburg +2 more 2010-06-08 $12,248,000
7719974 System and method for loadbalancing in a network environment using feedback information Ashish A. Chandwadkar, Jayaraman Iyer 2010-05-18 $18,047,000
7660909 Preallocation of client network address translation addresses for client-server networks Barron Cornelius Housel, III, Robert Batz, Steven C Klein 2010-02-09 $28,812,000
7650402 System and method for tracking end users in a loadbalancing environment Robert Batz 2010-01-19 $45,515,000
7640023 System and method for server farm resource allocation Weimin Ma, Ashish A. Chandwadkar, Robert Batz, Kevin Shatzkamer, Anand Oswal +2 more 2009-12-29 $28,270,000
7570586 Backup service managers for providing reliable network services in a distributed environment Mark Albert, Richard A. Howes, James A. Jordan, Edward A. Kersey, William M. LeBlanc +4 more 2009-08-04 $48,505,000