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Gregory J. Shepherd — 75 Patents

Cisco: 71 patents #80 of 13,007Top 1%
JNJuniper Networks: 2 patents #1,315 of 2,602Top 55%
T5Tech 5: 2 patents #2 of 14Top 15%
Eugene, OR: #10 of 1,137 inventorsTop 1%
Oregon: #367 of 28,073 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
Gregory J. Shepherd has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in October 2025. Gregory J. Shepherd ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list Gregory J. Shepherd in Eugene, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2019.peak 112007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 10 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 11 patents2020: 8 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 5 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12438741 Area-specific broadcasting using bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Pierre Pfister, Neale D. R. Ranns, W. Mark Townsley 2025-10-07
12068871 Bit indexed explicit replication using multiprotocol label switching Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin, Neale D. R. Ranns, Jesper Skriver 2024-08-20 $31,809,000
11646906 Bit indexed explicit forwarding optimization Ijsbrand Wijnands, John H. W. Bettink 2023-05-09 $76,981,000
11606312 Fast fail-over using tunnels Neale D. R. Ranns, Ijsbrand Wijnands 2023-03-14 $71,238,000
11601296 Bit indexed explicit replication for layer 2 networking Ijsbrand Wijnands, Nagendra Kumar Nainar 2023-03-07 $56,063,000
11451474 Equal cost multi-path with bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin, Rajiv Asati 2022-09-20 $60,349,000
11438186 Area-specific broadcasting using bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Pierre Pfister, Neale D. R. Ranns, W. Mark Townsley 2022-09-06 $48,036,000
11303470 Bridging of non-capable subnetworks in bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Neale D. R. Ranns, Nagendra Kumar Nainar 2022-04-12 $38,344,000
11297117 Unicast media replication fabric using bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Thomas Kernen, Neale D. R. Ranns 2022-04-05 $59,950,000
11240053 Overlay signaling for bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin 2022-02-01 $50,670,000
11206148 Bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin 2021-12-21 $166,300,000
11153108 Bit indexed explicit replication using multiprotocol label switching Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin, Neale D. R. Ranns, Jesper Skriver 2021-10-19 $34,651,000
11044112 Bit indexed explicit forwarding optimization Ijsbrand Wijnands, John H. W. Bettink 2021-06-22 $54,047,000
10958566 Traffic engineering for bit indexed explicit replication Toerless Eckert, Ijsbrand Wijnands, Neale D. R. Ranns 2021-03-23 $66,526,000
10917360 Fast fail-over using tunnels Neale D. R. Ranns, Ijsbrand Wijnands 2021-02-09 $46,270,000
10764076 Bit indexed explicit replication for layer 2 networking Ijsbrand Wijnands, Nagendra Kumar Nainar 2020-09-01 $44,977,000
10749790 Multicast-based content distribution for IoT networks using bit index explicit replication (BIER) Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery, Ian James Wells 2020-08-18 $53,681,000
10708075 Bit indexed explicit replication using internet protocol version 6 Ijsbrand Wijnands, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Christian J. Martin 2020-07-07 $57,639,000
10659242 Bit indexed explicit replication using multiprotocol label switching Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin, Neale D. R. Ranns, Jesper Skriver 2020-05-19 $51,516,000
10637675 Area-specific broadcasting using bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Pierre Pfister, Neale D. R. Ranns, W. Mark Townsley 2020-04-28 $59,037,000
10630743 Unicast media replication fabric using bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Thomas Kernen, Neale D. R. Ranns 2020-04-21 $93,227,000
10574479 Bridging of non-capable subnetworks in bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Neale D. R. Ranns, Nagendra Kumar Nainar 2020-02-25 $35,037,000
10536324 Per-prefix LFA FRR with bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin, Rajiv Asati 2020-01-14 $72,749,000
10498547 Bit indexed explicit replication Ijsbrand Wijnands, Christian J. Martin 2019-12-03 $60,867,000
10484303 Replication with dedicated metal deployment in a cloud Ijsbrand Wijnands, Neale D. R. Ranns, David Delano Ward, Michael Francis O'Gorman 2019-11-19 $71,538,000