Inventor
Amar Padmanabhan
Inventor
Menlo Park, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 36 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 communication56%
G06FElectric digital data processing37%
G05BControl or regulating systems in general8%
PatentTitleYear
11,057,277Creating and managing aggregation service hierarchies202110,977,067Control plane interface for logical middlebox services202110,958,510System and method of data communication202110,924,386Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches202110,922,124Network control system for configuring middleboxes202110,708,231Using headerspace analysis to identify unneeded distributed firewall rules202010,708,124System and method of data communication202010,623,254Hitless upgrade for network control applications202010,552,228Distributed hierarchical scheduler202010,310,886Network control system for configuring middleboxes201910,305,745Method and system for creating and managing aggregation service hierarchies201910,235,199Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes201910,164,894Buffered subscriber tables for maintaining a consistent network state201810,153,965Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches201810,091,120Secondary input queues for maintaining a consistent network state201810,089,127Control plane interface for logical middlebox services201810,044,676Using headerspace analysis to identify unneeded distributed firewall rules201810,033,579Using transactions to compute and propagate network forwarding state20189,973,382Hitless upgrade for network control applications20189,699,070'Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switches'20179,602,422'Implementing fixed points in network state updates using generation numbers'20179,602,421'Nesting transaction updates to minimize communication'20179,558,027'Network control system for configuring middleboxes'20179,552,219'Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes'20179,455,901'Managing software and hardware forwarding elements to define virtual networks'20169,407,566'Distributed network control system'20169,331,937'Exchange of network state information between forwarding elements'20169,319,337'Universal physical control plane'20169,319,338'Tunnel creation'20169,306,843'Using transactions to compute and propagate network forwarding state'20169,288,104'Chassis controllers for converting universal flows'20169,246,833'Pull-based state dissemination between managed forwarding elements'20169,195,491'Migrating middlebox state for distributed middleboxes'20159,172,603'WAN optimizer for logical networks'20159,137,107'Physical controllers for converting universal flows'20158,966,029'Network control system for configuring middleboxes'2015Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
2015–2021Patents assigned to NICIRA INC (31)· patent assignee history
2015–2021Based in Menlo Park, CA, US· patent location history
2018Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history
2019–2021Patents assigned to VMWARE INC (3)· patent assignee history
2020–2021Patents assigned to FACEBOOK INC (2)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| NICIRA INC | 31 | 2015–2021 |
| VMWARE INC | 3 | 2019–2021 |
| FACEBOOK INC | 2 | 2020–2021 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Menlo Park, California, US | 35 | 2015–2021 |
| Palo Alto, California, US | 1 | 2018 |