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Smita Rai — 17 Patents

Cisco: 15 patents #864 of 13,007Top 7%
Google: 2 patents #10,599 of 22,993Top 50%
Saratoga, CA: #565 of 2,933 inventorsTop 20%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Smita Rai has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in July 2025. Smita Rai ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Smita Rai in Saratoga, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2014.peak 52012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 5 patents20142017: 1 patents20172019: 3 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12367206 Coordination of overlapping processing of audio queries Bo Wang, Max Ohlendorf, Subbaiah Venkata, Chad Yoshikawa, Abhinav Taneja +3 more 2025-07-22
12218815 System and method for continuous in-line monitoring of data-center traffic Ajay Modi, Krishna Doddapaneni, Kit Chiu Chu 2025-02-04
11989229 Coordination of overlapping processing of audio queries Bo Wang, Max Ohlendorf, Venkat Kotla, Chad Yoshikawa, Abhinav Taneja +3 more 2024-05-21 $161,870,000
11843531 System and method for continuous in-line monitoring of data-center traffic Ajay Modi, Krishna Doddapaneni, Kit Chiu Chu 2023-12-12 $47,600,000
11038788 System and method for continuous in-line monitoring of data-center traffic Ajay Modi, Krishna Doddapaneni, Kit Chiu Chu 2021-06-15 $42,796,000
10805216 Shared service access for multi-tenancy in a data center fabric Satyam Sinha, Kit Chiu Chu, Ashutosh Agrawal, Wanli Wu, Ravikanth Nasika +2 more 2020-10-13 $50,563,000
10432628 Method for improving access control for TCP connections while optimizing hardware resources Thomas J. Edsall, Satyam Sinha, Kit Chiu Chu, Sarang Dharmapurikar, Ashutosh Agrawal +1 more 2019-10-01 $37,240,000
10404564 System and method for continuous in-line monitoring of data-center traffic Ajay Modi, Krishna Doddapaneni, Kit Chiu Chu 2019-09-03 $35,936,000
10320672 Shared service access for multi-tenancy in a data center fabric Satyam Sinha, Kit Chiu Chu, Ashutosh Agrawal, Wanli Wu, Ravikanth Nasika +2 more 2019-06-11 $27,530,000
9584421 Advertising reachability in proxy FHRP for anycast routing service Chandan Mishra, Gayatri Ramachandran, Sanjay Sane 2017-02-28 $28,741,000
8873551 Multi-destination forwarding in network clouds which include emulated switches Gayatri Ramachandran, Santosh Rajagopalan, Chandan Mishra, Sanjay Sane, Hariharan Balasubramanian 2014-10-28 $23,735,000
8724517 System and method for managing network traffic disruption Shekher Bulusu, Sanjay Sane, Gayatri Ramachandran, Ronak Desai 2014-05-13 $33,351,000
8681802 Proxy FHRP for anycast routing service Chandan Mishra, Gayatri Ramachandran, Sanjay Sane 2014-03-25 $35,811,000
8670326 System and method for probing multiple paths in a network environment Hariharan Balasubramanian, Sanjay Sane 2014-03-11 $48,230,000
8644156 Load-balancing traffic with virtual port channels Chandan Mishra 2014-02-04 $24,151,000
8509087 Per-graph link cost assignment in layer 2 multipath networks Santosh Rajagopalan, Gayatri Ramachandran, Sanjay Sane, Chandan Mishra, Hariharan Balasubramanian 2013-08-13 $48,126,000
8204061 Virtual port channel switches with distributed control planes Sanjay Sane, Pirabhu Raman, Umesh Mahajan 2012-06-19 $23,770,000