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Sami Boutros — 127 Patents

Cisco: 44 patents #194 of 13,007Top 2%
NINicira: 36 patents #20 of 444Top 5%
Broadcom: 27 patents #321 of 9,346Top 4%
CICiena: 17 patents #50 of 1,406Top 4%
Union City, CA: #1 of 1,177 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,421 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,845 of 4,157,543Top 1%
127 Patents All Time
Sami Boutros has been granted 127 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in November 2025. Sami Boutros ranks #8,845 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.21%). Patent records list Sami Boutros in Union City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 18 patents in 2022.peak 182005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 8 patents2015: 9 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 8 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 11 patents20192020: 10 patents2021: 15 patents20212022: 18 patents2023: 14 patents20232024: 9 patents2025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 127 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12476906 Label distribution protocol (LDP) convergence in ring topologies Bindhia Komath, Muthurajah Sivabalan, Wade A. Miller, Tao Wang 2025-11-18
12452168 Simplification of layer 2 VPLS control plane Muthurajah Sivabalan, David Gilson, Tao Wang, Mathieu Pepin 2025-10-21
12341680 Service operation chaining Pere Monclus, Philip Kippen, Dharma Rajan, Yashika Narang 2025-06-24
12341694 Building a platform to scale control and data plane for virtual network functions Jerome Catrouillet, Sri Mohana Satya Srinivas Singamsetty 2025-06-24
12255804 Edge device implanting a logical network that spans across multiple routing tables Ankur Dubey, Yashika Narang, Vinay K. Jain, Meenakshi Sundaram Selvaraj 2025-03-18
12250194 Facilitating distributed SNAT service Mani Kancherla, Jayant Jain, Anirban Sengupta 2025-03-11
12238000 Update library for a scalable layer 3 routing system 2025-02-25
12170611 Control plane based enhanced TI-LFA node protection scheme for SR-TE paths Muthurajah Sivabalan, Tao Wang, Ashwath Narasimhan 2024-12-17 $55,169,000
12170582 Bitmap signaling of services using segment routing Muthurajah Sivabalan, Himanshu Shah, Peng He 2024-12-17 $55,169,000
12058026 Segment routing traffic engineering (SR-TE) with awareness of local protection Muthurajah Sivabalan, Cengiz Alaettinoglu 2024-08-06 $18,609,000
11902050 Method for providing distributed gateway service at host computer Anirban Sengupta, Mani Kancherla, Jerome Catrouillet, Sri Mohana Satya Srinivas Singamsetty 2024-02-13
11895030 Scalable overlay multicast routing Subin Cyriac Mathew, Stephen Tan, Senthilkumar Karunakaran, Chidambareswaran Raman 2024-02-06
11888735 Using an attribute value to set a preferred egress point in multi-site logical routers Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Sri Mohana Satya Srinivas Singamsetty, Ankur Dubey, Abhishek Goliya 2024-01-30
11870684 Micro-loop avoidance in networks Sowmya Chandran, Ram Parameswaran, Arun Prakash, Muthurajah Sivabalan 2024-01-09 $17,676,000
11870688 Ethernet services with segment routing with dataplane MAC learning Siva Sivabalan, Himanshu Shah, Peng He 2024-01-09 $17,676,000
11863350 Fast convergence of E-Tree with a dual homed root node Muthurajah Sivabalan, David Gilson 2024-01-02 $51,698,000
11824769 Incrementally eliminating BGP-LU using SR policies and PCE Muthurajah Sivabalan 2023-11-21 $14,882,000
11824772 Optimized L2/L3 services over classical MPLS transport Muthurajah Sivabalan 2023-11-21 $14,882,000
11824778 Dynamic chain of service functions for processing network traffic Mani Kancherla, Dharmaraja Rajan, Philip Kippen, Yashika Narang, Chidambareswaran Raman 2023-11-21 $9,005,000
11811545 Distributed multicast logical router Sharath Bhat, Jerome Catrouillet, Subin Cyriac Mathew, Alexander Tessmer 2023-11-07 $9,636,000
11805055 Auto-configuration of routes between neighbor devices Santosh Pallagatti Kotrabasappa, Jerome Catrouillet, George A. Mathew 2023-10-31 $18,423,000
11805036 Detecting failure of layer 2 service using broadcast messages Stephen Tan, Rahul Mishra, Kantesh Mundaragi, Jayant Jain, Akhila Naveen 2023-10-31 $12,906,000
11750476 Service operation chaining Pere Monclus, Philip Kippen, Dharma Rajan, Yashika Narang 2023-09-05 $8,035,000
11743168 Edge device implementing a logical network that spans across multiple routing tables Ankur Dubey, Yashika Narang, Vinay K. Jain, Meenakshi Sundaram Selvaraj 2023-08-29 $13,187,000
11722400 Centralized approach to SR-TE paths with bandwidth guarantee using a single SID Muthurajah Sivabalan, Cengiz Alaettinoglu 2023-08-08 $52,568,000