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Heidi Ou — 15 Patents

Cisco: 15 patents #864 of 13,007Top 7%
Saratoga, CA: #634 of 2,933 inventorsTop 25%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Heidi Ou has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in August 2019. Heidi Ou ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Heidi Ou in Saratoga, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42008: 2 patents20082010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents20142015: 4 patents20152016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10389618 Distributing network path information in a network environment Sridhar Vallepalli 2019-08-20 $48,015,000
9992099 Protocol independent multicast designated router redundancy Yiqun Cai 2018-06-05 $25,460,000
9240942 Bandwidth utilization for equal cost multiple paths Yiqun Cai, Liming Wei, Apoorva Karan 2016-01-19 $29,482,000
9112711 Optimizing OTV multicast traffic flow for site local receivers Richard Bradford 2015-08-18 $20,697,000
9071546 Protocol independent multicast designated router redundancy Yiqun Cai 2015-06-30 $35,286,000
9008118 Multicast data delivery over mixed multicast and non-multicast networks Yongkui Han 2015-04-14 $25,504,000
8948023 Enhancing mtrace to detect failure in multicast diverse paths 2015-02-03 $17,448,000
8774076 Optimizing OTV multicast traffic flow for site local receivers Richard Bradford 2014-07-08 $38,796,000
8711853 System and method for providing a path avoidance feature in a network environment Yiqun Cai 2014-04-29 $29,978,000
8184628 Network based multicast stream duplication and merging Yiqun Cai, Toerless Eckert 2012-05-22 $35,934,000
8072907 Method and system to restart IS-IS when LSP wraps Steven V. Luong, Rena Whei-Ming Yang 2011-12-06 $31,478,000
7805537 Method and apparatus for flooding link state packets to achieve faster convergence Steven V. Luong, Gerald Redwine, James L. Ng, Kevin M. Eckhardt, Scott R. Sturgess +1 more 2010-09-28 $46,574,000
7656856 Method and system for transmitting LSP fragments Steven V. Luong, Rena Whei-Ming Yang 2010-02-02 $21,413,000
7467226 Method and apparatus for flooding link state packets to achieve faster convergence Steven V. Luong, Gerald Redwine, James L. Ng, Kevin M. Eckhardt, Scott R. Sturgess +1 more 2008-12-16 $35,210,000
7453811 Apparatus and methods for updating stale link state packets and routing table entries Steven V. Luong, Rena Whei-Ming Yang, Xiang ZHENG 2008-11-18 $27,119,000