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Benjamin L. Pfaff

NI Nicira: 23 patents #34 of 444Top 8%
Broadcom: 2 patents #4,116 of 9,346Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #161,329 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12155576 Packet classification with multiple classifiers Cheng-Chun Tu, Yifeng Sun, Yi-Hung Wei, Justin Pettit 2024-11-26
11683214 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Martin Casado, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Natasha Gude, Justin Pettit +2 more 2023-06-20
11632332 Packet classification with multiple classifiers Cheng-Chun Tu, Yifeng Sun, Yi-Hung Wei, Justin Pettit 2023-04-18
11522788 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Bruce Davie, Anupam Chanda, Justin Pettit, Amar Padmanabhan 2022-12-06
11425055 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches Martin Casado, Paul S. Ingram, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Teemu Koponen +3 more 2022-08-23
10931600 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches Martin Casado, Paul S. Ingram, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Teemu Koponen +3 more 2021-02-23
10924386 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Bruce Davie, Anupam Chanda, Justin Pettit, Amar Padmanabhan 2021-02-16
10798048 Address resolution protocol suppression using a flow-based forwarding element Harold Vinson C. Lim, Mart Haitjema, Srinivas Neginhal, Pankaj Thakkar, Teemu Koponen +1 more 2020-10-06
10749736 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Martin Casado, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Natasha Gude, Justin Pettit +2 more 2020-08-18
10659373 Processing packets according to hierarchy of flow entry storages Teemu Koponen, Andy Zhou, Justin Pettit 2020-05-19
10476735 Representation of match conditions in logical pipeline data Justin Pettit 2019-11-12
10348619 Generating conjunctive match flow entries 2019-07-09
10305725 Local controller agent for converting logical pipeline data Justin Pettit 2019-05-28
10200235 Distributed database structure for logical and physical network data Justin Pettit 2019-02-05
10153965 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Bruce Davie, Anupam Chanda, Justin Pettit, Amar Padmanabhan 2018-12-11
9876672 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Martin Casado, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Natasha Gude, Justin Pettit +2 more 2018-01-23
9699070 Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches Bruce Davie, Anupam Chanda, Justin Pettit, Amar Padmanabhan 2017-07-04
9686200 Flow cache hierarchy Justin Pettit, Teemu Koponen, Andy Zhou 2017-06-20
9654424 Managed forwarding element with conjunctive match flow entries 2017-05-16
9590919 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switches Martin Casado, Paul S. Ingram, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Teemu Koponen +3 more 2017-03-07
9455901 Managing software and hardware forwarding elements to define virtual networks Bruce Davie, Anupam Chanda, Justin Pettit, Amar Padmanabhan 2016-09-27
9306875 Managed switch architectures for implementing logical datapath sets Martin Casado, Keith E. Amidon 2016-04-05
9083609 Network operating system for managing and securing networks Martin Casado, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Natasha Gude, Justin Pettit +2 more 2015-07-14
8966035 Method and apparatus for implementing and managing distributed virtual switches in several hosts and physical forwarding elements Martin Casado, Paul S. Ingram, Keith E. Amidon, Peter J. Balland, III, Teemu Koponen +3 more 2015-02-24
8913483 Fault tolerant managed switching element architecture Ethan J. Jackson, Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar 2014-12-16