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Christopher Metz — 15 Patents

Cisco: 15 patents #864 of 13,007Top 7%
Danville, CA: #150 of 1,210 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Christopher Metz has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in October 2021. Christopher Metz ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Christopher Metz in Danville, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2011.peak 42009: 2 patents20092011: 4 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11140133 Layer 7 proxy for immutable application audit trails Tyler Levine, Zhaoxing Li, Rohan Dhesikan, David Delano Ward 2021-10-05 $55,834,000
10915307 Automatically producing software images Ian James Wells, Santosh Ramrao Patil, Durgaprasad Sukhadeo Pawar, Avaneesh Anandrao Kadam, Vikram Prasad Munishwar 2021-02-09 $46,270,000
9654379 Pseudowire (PW) switching type-length-value (TLV) Luca Martini, W. Mark Townsley, Earl Hardin Booth, III 2017-05-16 $11,667,000
9479403 Network availability analytics Clarence Filsfils, David Delano Ward, Peter De Vriendt 2016-10-25 $44,550,000
9270575 Service node using services applied by an application node Cedell Adam Alexander, Jr., Jim Guichard, David Delano Ward 2016-02-23 $24,669,000
9178796 Multi-layer stateful path computation element architecture Stefano B. Previdi, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Jan Medved, David Delano Ward, Clarence Filsfils 2015-11-03 $30,424,000
9112723 Service node using services applied by an application node Cedell Adam Alexander, Jr., Jim Guichard, David Delano Ward 2015-08-18 $20,697,000
8838829 Pseudowire (PW) switching type-length-value (TLV) Luca Martini, W. Mark Townsley, Earl Hardin Booth, III 2014-09-16 $19,087,000
8170014 Multiple NAT traversal protocol Daniel G. Wing 2012-05-01 $21,454,000
8001252 Psuedowire termination directly on a router James N. Guichard, Mohammed Sayeed, Bertrand Duvivier, Daniel C. Tappan, W. Scott Wainner +3 more 2011-08-16 $43,436,000
7965656 Building multipoint pseudo wires using a multipoint label distribution protocol (MLDP) Ijsbrand Wijnands, Arjen Boers, Luca Martini 2011-06-21 $32,506,000
7940777 Loss-free packet networks Rajiv Asati, Greg Thompson, Samir Parikh 2011-05-10 $19,779,000
7903676 Transportation of IEEE 802.1ah frames over multiprotocol label switching pseudowires for virtual private LAN services Ali Sajassi, Samer Salam 2011-03-08 $23,109,000
7593398 Layer-two interworking applied to L2-L3 pseudowires Earl Hardin Booth, III, W. Scott Wainner, W. Mark Townsley 2009-09-22 $39,974,000
7516224 Pseudowire termination directly on a router James N. Guichard, Mohammed Sayeed, Bertrand Duvivier, Daniel C. Tappan, W. Scott Wainner +3 more 2009-04-07 $22,125,000