Inventor

Amin Vahdat

Inventor

Los Altos, CA, US

Overview

2013–2021

Patent span

Electricity

Primary field (CPC H)

Patents· 62 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 communication64%

H04QSelecting15%

H04BTransmission6%

G06FElectric digital data processing5%

H04JMultiplex communication4%

Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use4%

Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications1%

Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification1%

PatentTitleYear

11,075,986Weighted load balancing using scaled parallel hashing2021 11,018,994Automated network change system2021 10,798,022Switch proxy controller for switch virtualization2020 10,097,474Shared rate limiting2018 10,075,335System and method for establishing connection with network controller2018 9,942,156Flow level dynamic load balancing2018 9,876,705System and method for adjusting network topology without packet loss2018 9,807,004'System and method for software defined routing of traffic within and between autonomous systems with enhanced flow routing, scalability and security'2017 9,705,740'Using unified API to program both servers and fabric for forwarding for fine-grained network optimizations'2017 9,692,639'Achieving full bandwidth usage and max-min fairness in a computer network'2017 9,660,886'Scalable network route analysis'2017 9,608,917'Systems and methods for achieving high network link utilization'2017 9,608,913'Weighted load balancing in a multistage network'2017 9,602,343'System and method for establishing connection with network controller'2017 9,565,114'Weighted load balancing using scaled parallel hashing'2017 9,537,714'Randomized rotation striping for direct connect networks'2017 9,503,395'Multi-stage switching topology'2016 9,491,102'Traffic load balancing in a multi-connect topology'2016 9,491,526'Dynamic data center network with a mesh of wavelength selective switches'2016 9,479,219'Validating a connection to an optical circuit switch'2016 9,479,437'Efficient updates of weighted cost multipath (WCMP) groups'2016 9,473,833'Systems and methods for increasing bandwidth in a computer network'2016 9,461,915'System and method for reducing consumption of hardware resources using weighted cost multi-path flow distribution'2016 9,455,911'In-band centralized control with connection-oriented control protocols'2016 9,455,870'Achieving balanced interconnectivity in a computer network'2016 9,419,887'Minimum latency routing'2016 9,397,957'Traffic engineering for large scale data center networks'2016 9,379,981'Flow level dynamic load balancing'2016 9,374,311'System and method for reducing hardware table resources in a multi-stage network device'2016 9,363,162'Determining WCMP link capacities in multi-stage networks'2016 9,363,144'Interconnecting computers in a datacenter'2016 9,319,264'Networking systems with dynamically changing topologies'2016 9,307,013'Reducing batch completion time in a computer network with max-min fairness'2016 9,288,146'Reducing batch completion time in a computer network with per-destination max-min fairness'2016 9,253,117'Systems and methods for reducing network hardware of a centrally-controlled network using in-band network connections'2016 9,247,326'Systems and methods for increasing bandwidth in a computer network'2016 9,246,770'System and method for determining a primary controller in software defined networking'2016 9,246,760'System and method for reducing throughput loss responsive to network expansion'2016 9,225,454'Aggregation and de-agreggation of bandwidth within data centers using passive optical elements'2015 9,210,487'Implementation of a large-scale multi-stage non-blocking optical circuit switch'2015 9,197,509'Logical topology in a dynamic data center network'2015 9,184,999'Logical topology in a dynamic data center network'2015 9,184,845'Dynamic data center network with optical circuit switch'2015 9,172,624'Determining physical connectivity of data center devices'2015 9,166,886'Systems and methods for determining physical network topology'2015 9,083,626'System and method for reducing hardware table resources in a multi-stage network device'2015 9,014,191'Separating routing domains for virtualized networks when implementing a tunneling protocol'2015 9,008,510'Implementation of a large-scale multi-stage non-blocking optical circuit switch'2015 8,989,194'Systems and methods for improving network redundancy and for facile initialization in a centrally-controlled network'2015 8,982,700'System and method for minimizing hardware resources for given performance using weighted cost multi-path flow distribution'2015 8,965,203'Flexible non-modular data center with reconfigurable extended-reach optical network fabric'2015 8,902,751'Multi-stage switching topology'2014 8,904,041'Link layer address resolution of overlapping network addresses'2014 8,867,915'Dynamic data center network with optical circuit switch'2014 8,867,376'Host verification at an optical circuit switch'2014 8,842,688'Reducing cabling complexity in large-scale networks'2014 8,837,470'Multi-stage switching topology'2014 8,737,269'System and method for reducing hardware table resources in a multi-stage network device'2014 8,676,004'Optical circuit switch optimization using optical circulators'2014 8,483,096'Scalable commodity data center network architecture'2013 8,355,630'Polarity inversion detection for an optical circuit switch'2013 8,351,782'Polarity inversion detection for an optical circuit switch'2013

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2013–2018Patents assigned to GOOGLE INC (56)· patent assignee history

2013–2016Patents assigned to VAHDAT AMIN (17)· patent assignee history

2013–2021Based in Los Altos, CA, US· patent location history

2013–2014Based in Poway, CA, US· patent location history

2014–2016Patents assigned to SINGH ARJUN (6)· patent assignee history

2014–2016Patents assigned to ZHOU JUNLAN (6)· patent assignee history

2016–2018Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history

2018–2021Patents assigned to GOOGLE LLC (7)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
GOOGLE INC	56	2013–2018
VAHDAT AMINself	17	2013–2016
GOOGLE LLC	7	2018–2021
SINGH ARJUN	6	2014–2016
ZHOU JUNLAN	6	2014–2016

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Los Altos, California, US	56	2013–2021
Mountain View, California, US	4	2016–2018
Poway, California, US	2	2013–2014