Dean Cheng — 16 Patents at Cisco

Dean Cheng has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Dean Cheng ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Dean Cheng in Fremont, CA, US.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12513436	Interior gateway protocol flood minimization	Huaimo Chen	2025-12-30
11991074	Interior gateway protocol flood minimization	Huaimo Chen	2024-05-21
11848853	System and method for handling IGP flooding topology inconsistency	Huaimo Chen	2023-12-19
11805193	Point-to-point database synchronization over a transport protocol	Norman W. Finn	2023-10-31
11489766	Interior gateway protocol flood minimization	Huaimo Chen	2022-11-01
11277329	System and method for handling IGP flooding topology inconsistency	Huaimo Chen	2022-03-15
9253274	Service insertion architecture	Paul Quinn, Kenneth Durazzo, Andrew G. Harvey, Satish K. Gannu, Frederick Baker +4 more	2016-02-02	$21,227,000
8161182	Managing network congestion using dynamically advertised congestion status	Snehal Karia	2012-04-17	$23,088,000
7042881	Asynchronous transfer mode system and method to verify a connection	Sandeep Dhar, ShuHung Alexander Mak	2006-05-09	$28,876,000
6717920	Dynamically created service class-based routing tables	—	2004-04-06	$126,697,000
6643267	Method and apparatus for tracing a virtual connection	Snehal Karia	2003-11-04	$119,160,000
6600724	Routing table structures	—	2003-07-29	$202,522,000
6563798	Dynamically created service class-based routing tables	—	2003-05-13	$186,864,000
6529498	Routing support for point-to-multipoint connections	—	2003-03-04	$227,005,000
D366455	Portable hub	—	1996-01-23
5484303	Structure of a hub	—	1996-01-16

Dean Cheng — 16 Patents

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