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Alexander Yip — 11 Patents

NINicira: 11 patents #88 of 444Top 20%
Menlo Park, CA: #777 of 3,774 inventorsTop 25%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Alexander Yip has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nicira. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in March 2023. Alexander Yip ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Alexander Yip in Menlo Park, CA, US.

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Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11601521 Management of update queues for network controller Igor Ganichev, Pankaj Thakkar, Teemu Koponen, Aayush Saxena 2023-03-07 $17,060,000
11019167 Management of update queues for network controller Igor Ganichev, Pankaj Thakkar, Teemu Koponen, Aayush Saxena 2021-05-25 $35,078,000
10164894 Buffered subscriber tables for maintaining a consistent network state Timothy L. Hinrichs, Amar Padmanabhan, Natasha Gude, Igor Ganichev, Anuprem Chalvadi 2018-12-25
10091120 Secondary input queues for maintaining a consistent network state Timothy L. Hinrichs, Amar Padmanabhan, Natasha Gude, Igor Ganichev, Anuprem Chalvadi 2018-10-02 $14,576,000
9602422 Implementing fixed points in network state updates using generation numbers Timothy L. Hinrichs, Amar Padmanabhan, Natasha Gude, Igor Ganichev, Anuprem Chalvadi 2017-03-21 $18,543,000
9288104 Chassis controllers for converting universal flows Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar, Natasha Gude, W. Andrew Lambeth, Amar Padmanabhan +4 more 2016-03-15 $58,037,000
9137107 Physical controllers for converting universal flows Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar, Natasha Gude, W. Andrew Lambeth, Amar Padmanabhan +4 more 2015-09-15 $80,595,000
8964528 Method and apparatus for robust packet distribution among hierarchical managed switching elements Martin Casado, Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar, W. Andrew Lambeth, Keith E. Amidon +1 more 2015-02-24 $17,385,000
8750119 Network control apparatus and method with table mapping engine W. Andrew Lambeth, Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar, Martin Casado 2014-06-10 $70,526,000
8750164 Hierarchical managed switch architecture Martin Casado, Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar, W. Andrew Lambeth, Keith E. Amidon +1 more 2014-06-10 $70,526,000
8717895 Network virtualization apparatus and method with a table mapping engine Teemu Koponen, Pankaj Thakkar, Martin Casado, W. Andrew Lambeth, Jeremy Stribling 2014-05-06 $71,783,000