Inventor
YUAN LIHUA
US30 patents
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MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
23 patentsUS9954751B2Apr 24, 2018
Measuring performance of a network using mirrored probe packets
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC20 citations93
US10075327B2Sep 11, 2018
Automated datacenter network failure mitigation
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC7 citations82
US10812576B1Oct 20, 2020
Hardware load balancer gateway on commodity switch hardware
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC11 citations81
US11101883B1Aug 24, 2021
Control plane redundancy for optical networks
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations72
US10999084B2May 4, 2021
Leveraging remote direct memory access (RDMA) for packet capture
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations72
US10652320B2May 12, 2020
Load balancing in distributed computing systems
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations72
US11799785B2Oct 24, 2023
Hardware-based packet flow processing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations71
US11695699B2Jul 4, 2023
Fault tolerant and load balanced routing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations62
US11218537B2Jan 4, 2022
Load balancing in distributed computing systems
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US10762218B2Sep 1, 2020
Network buildout for cloud computing environments with data control policies
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations56
US12395430B2Aug 19, 2025
Disaggregation of TIER1 devices in an SDN using SmartSwitches
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations53
US11539611B2Dec 27, 2022
Fine-grained network monitoring
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations52
US10735327B2Aug 4, 2020
Fault tolerant and load balanced routing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations52
US9491054B2Nov 8, 2016
Network-state management service
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations52
US11418427B2Aug 16, 2022
Software emulated switching of dual network devices
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US11018973B2May 25, 2021
Distributed sonic fabric chassis
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US12418477B2Sep 16, 2025
Smart switch for offloading high bandwidth flows in a software defined network
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations49
US11582227B2Feb 14, 2023
Securing network access at edge sites using trusted network devices
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations49
US10917318B2Feb 9, 2021
Packet capture via packet tagging
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations48
US9871711B2Jan 16, 2018
Identifying problems in a network by detecting movement of devices between coordinates based on performances metrics
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations48
US11924088B2Mar 5, 2024
Packet routing with redundant network devices
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations42
US11714786B2Aug 1, 2023
Smart cable for redundant ToR's
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations41
US10567356B2Feb 18, 2020
Monitoring cloud computing environments with data control policies
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations34