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George Swallow — 56 Patents

Cisco: 56 patents #124 of 13,007Top 1%
Boston, MA: #54 of 5,993 inventorsTop 1%
Massachusetts: #952 of 88,656 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
George Swallow has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2020. George Swallow ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list George Swallow in Boston, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2015.peak 112000: 1 patents20002003: 1 patents2004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 4 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 4 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 4 patents2015: 11 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10637775 Make-before-break mechanism for label switched paths Tarek Saad 2020-04-28 $59,037,000
10348618 Identifying, translating and filtering shared risk groups in communications networks Clarence Filsfils 2019-07-09 $39,863,000
10291516 Synonymous labels Stewart Frederick Bryant, Muthurajah Sivabalan 2019-05-14 $74,819,000
9876675 Packet transport shared mesh protection Eric Osborne 2018-01-23 $34,113,000
9832110 Identifying, translating and filtering shared risk groups in communications networks Clarence Filsfils 2017-11-28 $26,288,000
9832127 LSP ping/trace over MPLS networks using entropy labels Noboshige Akiya, Carlos M. Pignataro, Nagendra Kumar Nainar 2017-11-28 $26,288,000
9794168 Scalable continuity test for a group of communication paths Stewart Frederick Bryant, Carlos M. Pignataro 2017-10-17 $25,416,000
9722916 Data-plane driven fast protection mechanism for MPLS pseudowire services Muthurajah Sivabalan, Sami Boutros, Simon James Trevor Spraggs 2017-08-01 $22,787,000
9608858 Reliable multipath forwarding for encapsulation protocols Rajiv Asati, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro 2017-03-28 $22,803,000
9590850 Discovery of connectivity and compatibility in a communication network Clarence Filsfils, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Zafar Ali 2017-03-07 $30,642,000
9467367 Universal labels in internetworking Stewart Frederick Bryant, Daniel C. Frost, Neil Jarvis 2016-10-11 $52,174,000
9419885 Operating MPLS label switched paths and MPLS pseudowire in loopback mode Sami Boutros, Muthurajah Sivabalan, David Delano Ward, Carlos M. Pignataro 2016-08-16 $25,339,000
9398553 Technique for improving LDP-IGP synchronization Bin Mo, David Ojemann 2016-07-19 $57,477,000
9391704 Replacing an existing network communications path with a new path using some exclusive physical resources of the existing path Ornan Gerstel, Zafar Ali, Clarence Filsfils, Matthew Hartley 2016-07-12 $39,463,000
9385945 Identifying, translating and filtering shared risk groups in communications networks Clarence Filsfils 2016-07-05 $42,620,000
9294392 Identifying, translating and filtering shared risk groups in communications networks Clarence Filsfils 2016-03-22 $28,703,000
9210089 LSP ping/trace over MPLS networks using entropy labels Nobushige Akiya, Carlos M. Pignataro, Nagendra Kumar 2015-12-08 $22,797,000
9197508 Time-based scheduling for tunnels computed by a stateful path computation element Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Stefano B. Previdi, Clarence Filsfils 2015-11-24 $24,283,000
9154411 Pseudowire status maintenance for static pseudowires Luca Martini 2015-10-06 $17,408,000
9124484 Technique for improving LDP-IGP synchronization Bin Mo, David Ojemann 2015-09-01 $25,757,000
9118541 Interior gateway protocol summarization preserving internet protocol reachability information Clarence Filsfils, James N. Guichard 2015-08-25 $23,222,000
9094344 Establishing a bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) asynchronous mode session without knowing a Prior layer-2 or layer-3 information Sami Boutros, Nobushige Akiya 2015-07-28 $27,521,000
9077615 Global state resynchronization for path computation element failure during a reoptimization process Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Stefano B. Previdi, David Delano Ward 2015-07-07 $35,523,000
9014049 Selectively populating forwarding information bases in a packet switch Clarence Filsfils, John H. W. Bettink 2015-04-21 $28,688,000
9013985 Protection of a bidirectional label switched path Muthurajah Sivabalan, Sami Boutros, Show Chung Chin 2015-04-21 $28,688,000