Inventor
Alexander Tessmer
Inventor
Mountain View, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 32 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
H04Lprimary
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication80%
G06FElectric digital data processing18%
G05BControl or regulating systems in general3%
PatentTitleYear
11,128,489Maintaining data-plane connectivity between hosts202111,018,975Caching flow operation results in software defined networks202110,999,087Replicating broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast traffic in overlay logical networks bridged with physical networks202110,979,246Multicast packet handling in software-defined networking (SDN) environments202110,958,462Using a central controller cluster to configure a distributed multicast logical router202110,873,473Distributed multicast logical router202010,848,461Unified security policies across virtual private clouds with overlapping IP address blocks202010,778,457Traffic replication in overlay networks spanning multiple sites202010,764,112Management and control system logical network202010,735,259Virtual switch updates via temporary virtual switch202010,719,341Learning of tunnel endpoint selections202010,693,833Address resolution suppression in a logical network202010,623,194Distributed multicast by endpoints202010,581,669Restoring control-plane connectivity with a network management entity202010,567,187Methods to optimize multicast routing in overlay networks202010,523,455Distributed multicast logical router201910,333,727Replicating broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast traffic in overlay logical networks bridged with physical networks201910,218,526Distributed multicast by endpoints201910,218,523Using a central controller cluster to configure a distributed multicast logical router201910,164,885Load balancing over multiple tunnel endpoints201810,135,635Encoding control plane information in transport protocol source port field and applications thereof in network virtualization201810,069,646Distribution of tunnel endpoint mapping information20189,912,616'Grouping tunnel endpoints of a bridge cluster'20189,887,851'Distributed multicast by endpoints'20189,794,079'Replicating broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast traffic in overlay logical networks bridged with physical networks'20179,602,385'Connectivity segment selection'20179,602,375'Tracing host-originated logical network packets'20179,602,392'Connectivity segment coloring'20179,577,927'Encoding control plane information in transport protocol source port field and applications thereof in network virtualization'20179,479,348'Technique to submit multicast membership state in absence of querier'20169,432,204'Distributed multicast by endpoints'20169,264,330'Tracing host-originated logical network packets'2016Career & activity timeline
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2016–2021Patents assigned to NICIRA INC (30)· patent assignee history
2016–2020Patents assigned to VMWARE INC (4)· patent assignee history
2016–2021Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history
2016–2021Based in San Jose, CA, US· patent location history
2020–2021Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| NICIRA INC | 30 | 2016–2021 |
| VMWARE INC | 4 | 2016–2020 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View, California, US | 23 | 2016–2021 |
| San Jose, California, US | 5 | 2016–2021 |
| Palo Alto, California, US | 4 | 2020–2021 |