Inventor
ALLAN DAVID IAN
US59 patents
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ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M
33 patentsUS9071529B2Jun 30, 2015
Method and apparatus for accelerating forwarding in software-defined networks
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M27 citations90
US11310846B2Apr 19, 2022
Local identifier locator network protocol (ILNP) breakout
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M6 citations86
US11129061B1Sep 21, 2021
Local identifier locator network protocol (ILNP) breakout
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M9 citations86
US10917927B2Feb 9, 2021
Local identifier locator network protocol (ILNP) breakout
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M6 citations84
US10716045B2Jul 14, 2020
Lossless handover for mobility with location identifier separation protocol in 3rd generation partnership project networks
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M8 citations84
US9954765B2Apr 24, 2018
Graph construction for computed spring multicast
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M9 citations84
US9485165B2Nov 1, 2016
Method and apparatus for augmenting TWAMP
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M16 citations84
US9369549B2Jun 14, 2016
802.1aq support over IETF EVPN
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M5 citations84
US9112848B2Aug 18, 2015
802.1aq support over IETF EVPN
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M8 citations84
US8879394B2Nov 4, 2014
Method and system of packet based identifier locator network protocol (ILNP) load balancing and routing
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M10 citations84
US11469917B2Oct 11, 2022
Hybrid access to premises equipment using both fixed-line and radio communications
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations73
US10904136B2Jan 26, 2021
Multicast distribution tree versioning for minimizing multicast group traffic disruption
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M5 citations73
US10873524B2Dec 22, 2020
Optimized equal-cost multi-path (ECMP) forwarding decision in bit index explicit replication (BIER)
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M6 citations73
US10673742B2Jun 2, 2020
Multicast state reduction via tunneling in a routed system
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M5 citations73
US10523456B2Dec 31, 2019
Multipoint to multipoint trees for computed spring multicast
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations73
US10164907B2Dec 25, 2018
Method and system for completing loosely specified MDTs
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M5 citations73
US9992271B2Jun 5, 2018
ENF selection for NFVI
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations73
US11038716B2Jun 15, 2021
Using location identifier separation protocol to implement a distributed gateway architecture for 3GPP mobility
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations68
US12537817B2Jan 27, 2026
Using identifier and locator separation to simplify application network service requests
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations63
US12101666B2Sep 24, 2024
Lightweight fragmentation and reliability for fixed mobile convergence access stratum and non-access stratum signaling
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations63
US11128576B2Sep 21, 2021
Method and system for completing loosely specified MDTS
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations63
US11006319B2May 11, 2021
5G fixed mobile convergence user plane encapsulation
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations63
US9461909B2Oct 4, 2016
Method and system of shortest path bridging (SPB) enhanced resilience with loop mitigation
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations63
US9178799B2Nov 3, 2015
Method and system of shortest path bridging (SPB) enhanced resilience with loop mitigation
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations63
US9160651B2Oct 13, 2015
Metric biasing for bandwidth aware tie breaking
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M2 citations63
US9160666B2Oct 13, 2015
Encoding a payload hash in the DA-MAC to facilitate elastic chaining of packet processing elements
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M3 citations61
US12413973B2Sep 9, 2025
Multisession PAP/CHAP support for WWC
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations52
US11943731B2Mar 26, 2024
Registration of legacy fixed network residential gateway (FN-RG) to a 5G core network
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations52
US11375405B2Jun 28, 2022
Identifier-locator network protocol (ILNP) coordinated multipoint (CoMP) and multiple connectivity
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations52
US11265299B2Mar 1, 2022
Obscured retrieval sequence for information centric networking (ICN) encoded video streams
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations52
US10305769B2May 28, 2019
Method and apparatus for augmenting TWAMP
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations52
US9832102B2Nov 28, 2017
Automatic establishment of redundant paths with cautious restoration in a packet network
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M1 citations52
US9282006B2Mar 8, 2016
Method and system of enhancing multiple MAC registration protocol (MMRP) for protocol internetworking
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M0 citations52
ALLAN DAVID IAN
10 patentsUS8553562B2Oct 8, 2013
Automated traffic engineering for multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) with link utilization as feedback into the tie-breaking mechanism
ALLAN DAVID IAN173 citations98
US8867367B2Oct 21, 2014
802.1aq support over IETF EVPN
ALLAN DAVID IAN14 citations92
US8711703B2Apr 29, 2014
Load balancing in shortest-path-bridging networks
ALLAN DAVID IAN17 citations92
US8811409B2Aug 19, 2014
Routing VLAN tagged packets to far end addresses of virtual forwarding instances using separate administrations
ALLAN DAVID IAN15 citations84
US8750121B2Jun 10, 2014
Addressing the large flow problem for equal cost multi-path in the datacenter
ALLAN DAVID IAN7 citations84
US8553584B2Oct 8, 2013
Automated traffic engineering for 802.1AQ based upon the use of link utilization as feedback into the tie breaking mechanism
ALLAN DAVID IAN10 citations83
US8848509B2Sep 30, 2014
Three stage folded Clos optimization for 802.1aq
ALLAN DAVID IAN6 citations73
US8953616B2Feb 10, 2015
Shortest path bridging in a multi-area network
ALLAN DAVID IAN3 citations63
US8738757B2May 27, 2014
System and method for variable-size table construction applied to a table-lookup approach for load-spreading in forwarding data in a network
ALLAN DAVID IAN3 citations61
US8553568B2Oct 8, 2013
Internetworking framework for multi-protocol label switching-transport profile and operation administration and maintenance protocols
ALLAN DAVID IAN2 citations55
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1 patentCHANNELWARE INC
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1 patentCASEY LIAM M
1 patentGARG VIPIN
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