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Alvaro Retana
Also filed as: RETANA ALVARO · RETANA ALVARO E · RETANA ALVARO ENRIQUE
66 granted patents·10 pending applications·483 citations·filing 2002–2025
99Inventor score
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76 records- 0194US11502940B2Explicit backups and fast re-route mechanisms for preferred path routes in a networkHUAWEI TECH CO LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 15, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 0294US7668119B2Ad hoc network formation and management based on aggregation of ad hoc nodes according to an aggregation hierarchyCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 23, 2010·34 cites·47 claims
- 0393US11374848B2Explicit routing with network function encodingHUAWEI TECH CO LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 28, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 0493US7778235B2Compression of a routing header in a packet by a mobile router in an ad hoc networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 17, 2010·28 cites·20 claims
- 0589US7333501B2Techniques for determining network nodes to represent, multiple subnetworks for a routing protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 19, 2008·21 cites·31 claims
- 0688US7609672B2Method and apparatus for automatic sub-division of areas that flood routing informationCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 27, 2009·16 cites·31 claims
- 0787US10015075B1Directed acyclic graph optimization for future time instance advertised by a parent network deviceCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 3, 2018·6 cites·20 claims
- 0886US9043487B2Dynamically configuring and verifying routing information of broadcast networks using link state protocols in a computer networkRETANA ALVARO E·Filed 2006·Granted May 26, 2015·19 cites·4 claims
- 0986US7768995B2Techniques for one-way synchronization of routing information among intermediate nodesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 3, 2010·15 cites·31 claims
- 1084US10609621B2Directed acyclic graph optimization for future time instance requested by a child network deviceCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 31, 2020·5 cites·17 claims
- 1184US7889655B2Techniques for detecting loop-free paths that cross routing information boundariesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 15, 2011·13 cites·24 claims
- 1283US7391730B1System and method for synchronizing link state databases in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 24, 2008·38 cites·13 claims
- 1382US8964741B2Adjacency discovery through multicast and single-hop messagingRETANA ALVARO E·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 24, 2015·9 cites·18 claims
- 1482US7940776B2Fast re-routing in distance vector routing protocol networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted May 10, 2011·11 cites·25 claims
- 1582US7929524B2Apparatus and method to hide transit only multi-access networks in OSPFCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 19, 2011·8 cites·15 claims
- 1682US7821956B2System and method for controlling the flooding of information in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 26, 2010·9 cites·20 claims
- 1781US7978612B2Two-hop relay for reducing distance vector routing informationCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 12, 2011·11 cites·22 claims
- 1881US7808927B2Technique to automatically deaggregate an optimum set to prevent suboptimal routing or routing failures within a link state flooding domainCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 5, 2010·10 cites·9 claims
- 1980US8203934B2Transparent automatic protection switching for a chassis deploymentSAVAGE DONNIE V·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 19, 2012·10 cites·26 claims
- 2079US9654482B2Overcoming circular dependencies when bootstrapping an RPKI siteCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 16, 2017·6 cites·21 claims
- 2179US7672253B2Border router with selective filtering of link state advertisementsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 2, 2010·8 cites·20 claims
- 2278US7899005B2Method and apparatus for passing routing information among mobile routersCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 1, 2011·8 cites·21 claims
- 2378US7733798B2Evaluation of network data aggregationCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 8, 2010·9 cites·25 claims
- 2478US7298707B2System and method for controlling the flooding of information in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 20, 2007·23 cites·28 claims
- 2577US8452014B2Group key management for mobile ad-hoc networksRATLIFF STAN·Filed 2009·Granted May 28, 2013·12 cites·19 claims
- 2677US7363387B1System and method for reducing information being transmitted in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 22, 2008·25 cites·21 claims
- 2777US7319674B2System and method for exchanging awareness information in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 15, 2008·21 cites·28 claims
- 2876US8346961B2System and method for using routing protocol extensions for improving spoke to spoke communication in a computer networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 1, 2013·7 cites·14 claims
- 2976US8009591B2Automatic overlapping areas that flood routing informationCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 30, 2011·7 cites·19 claims
- 3075US8121130B2Determining an optimal route advertisement in a reactive routing environmentWHITE RUSSELL I·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 21, 2012·5 cites·16 claims
- 3174US7697505B2Techniques for decreasing queries to discover routes in an interior gateway protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 13, 2010·6 cites·14 claims
- 3274US7515551B2Techniques for reducing adjacencies in a link-state network routing protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 7, 2009·6 cites·31 claims
- 3373US7940668B2Method and apparatus to enable an IPe domain through EIGRPCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2008·Granted May 10, 2011·5 cites·19 claims
- 3472US9942145B2Attribute SET_ID in border gateway protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 10, 2018·2 cites·17 claims
- 3572US7626948B1System and method for verifying the validity of a path in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 1, 2009·17 cites·21 claims
- 3672US7525949B1Forwarding for network devicesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 28, 2009·21 cites·19 claims
- 3766US9722919B2Tying data plane paths to a secure control planeCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 1, 2017·2 cites·22 claims
- 3866US8688807B2Deriving unique local addresses from device namesBEHRINGER MICHAEL H·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 1, 2014·3 cites·22 claims
- 3966US8400945B2Transit prevention in hub-and-spoke topologies using link state protocolsBARNES MICHAEL·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 19, 2013·3 cites·15 claims
- 4065US8879392B2BGP security update interceptsZWALL JEFFREY V·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 4, 2014·4 cites·15 claims
- 4165US2024430927A1Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Monitoring Interface for NetworkingHUAWEI TECH CO LTD·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4264US9413636B2Network topologies for energy efficient networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 9, 2016·1 cites·9 claims
- 4363US8699410B2Method and apparatus for automatic sub-division of areas that flood routing informationRETANA ALVARO·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 15, 2014·3 cites·21 claims
- 4463US7936667B2Building backup tunnels for fast reroute in communications networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2009·Granted May 3, 2011·2 cites·20 claims
- 4562US8705539B2Determining a route advertisement in a reactive routing environmentWHITE RUSSELL I·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 22, 2014·1 cites·19 claims
- 4661US11973851B2Supporting multiple border gateway protocol (BGP) sessions using multiple QUIC streamsHUAWEI TECH CO LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Apr 30, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 4760US9641430B2Verifying data plane paths based on a validated secure control planeCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 2, 2017·1 cites·19 claims
- 4858US9722910B2Transit domain controlCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 1, 2017·1 cites·27 claims
- 4957US9191227B2Determining a route advertisement in a reactive routing environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 17, 2015·0 cites·19 claims
- 5055US9356856B2Apparatus and method to hide transit only multi-access networks in OSPFCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted May 31, 2016·0 cites·20 claims
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