Inventor
Ferrara Michael Gregory
US17 patents
Patents
17 patentsUS10616101B1Apr 7, 2020
Forwarding element with flow learning circuit in its data plane
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Data-plane stateful processing units in packet processing pipelines
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US10454833B1Oct 22, 2019
Pipeline chaining
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US10601732B1Mar 24, 2020
Configurable packet processing pipeline for handling non-packet data
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US10594630B1Mar 17, 2020
Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline
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US10313495B1Jun 4, 2019
Compiler and hardware interactions to remove action dependencies in the data plane of a network forwarding element
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US11503141B1Nov 15, 2022
Stateful processing unit with min/max capability
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US10873534B1Dec 22, 2020
Data plane with flow learning circuit
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US10826840B1Nov 3, 2020
Multiple copies of stateful tables
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US10771387B1Sep 8, 2020
Multiple packet data container types for a processing pipeline
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US10764176B1Sep 1, 2020
Compiler and hardware interactions to reuse register fields in the data plane of a network forwarding element
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US12381962B2Aug 5, 2025
Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline
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US11700212B2Jul 11, 2023
Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline
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US11362967B2Jun 14, 2022
Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline
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US11258703B1Feb 22, 2022
Data plane for learning flows, collecting metadata regarding learned flows and exporting metadata regarding learned flows
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US10924400B1Feb 16, 2021
Configuring a network forwarding element with data plane packet snapshotting capabilities
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US10805437B2Oct 13, 2020
Compiler and hardware interactions to remove action dependencies in the data plane of a network forwarding element
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