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John E. Drake
Also filed as: DRAKE JOHN · DRAKE JOHN E · DRAKE JR JOHN E
60 granted patents·3 pending applications·3,359 citations·filing 1982–2023
99Inventor score
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63 records- 0197US9019814B1Fast failover in multi-homed ethernet virtual private networksJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 28, 2015·102 cites·20 claims
- 0297US8942256B1Advertising with a layer three routing protocol constituent link attributes of a layer two bundleBARTH COLBY·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 27, 2015·76 cites·24 claims
- 0397US8787400B1Weighted equal-cost multipathBARTH COLBY·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 22, 2014·109 cites·26 claims
- 0497US5355371AMulticast communication tree creation and control method and apparatusIBM·Filed 1982·Granted Oct 11, 1994·250 cites·19 claims
- 0596US4827411AMethod of maintaining a topology databaseIBM·Filed 1987·Granted May 2, 1989·311 cites·4 claims
- 0695US11088871B1Fast convergence for MAC mobilityJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 10, 2021·10 cites·20 claims
- 0795US9391885B1MPLS label usage in Ethernet virtual private networksJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 12, 2016·35 cites·13 claims
- 0895US8804736B1Network tunneling using a label stack delimiterDRAKE JOHN E·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 12, 2014·77 cites·16 claims
- 0995US5367523AAdaptive rate-based congestion and flow control in packet communications networksIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Nov 22, 1994·300 cites·22 claims
- 1094US11799772B2Support for multiple virtual networks over an underlay network topologyJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2021·Granted Oct 24, 2023·3 cites·18 claims
- 1194US9590902B2Signaling aliasing capability in data centersJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 7, 2017·32 cites·30 claims
- 1294US9397931B1Fast convergence in singly-homed ethernet virtual private networksJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 19, 2016·52 cites·21 claims
- 1394US9178810B1Handling entropy labels when stitching label-switched pathsJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 3, 2015·32 cites·27 claims
- 1494US9178816B1Control plane messaging in all-active multi-homed ethernet virtual private networksJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 3, 2015·37 cites·20 claims
- 1594US5359593ADynamic bandwidth estimation and adaptation for packet communications networksIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Oct 25, 1994·262 cites·10 claims
- 1693US11310145B1Apparatus, system, and method for achieving shortest path forwarding in connection with clusters of active-standby service appliancesJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 19, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 1792US9948472B2Protocol independent multicast sparse mode (PIM-SM) support for data center interconnectJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 17, 2018·19 cites·18 claims
- 1891US10116464B2EVPN inter-subnet multicast forwardingJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 30, 2018·11 cites·20 claims
- 1991US5461611AQuality of service management for source routing multimedia packet networksIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 24, 1995·299 cites·24 claims
- 2090US12010011B2Fast reroute for ethernet virtual private networks—virtual extensible local area networkJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 11, 2024·2 cites·18 claims
- 2190US11438259B2Flexible algorithm aware border gateway protocol (BGP) prefix segment routing identifiers (SIDs)JUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 6, 2022·3 cites·19 claims
- 2290US9781032B1MPLS label usage in ethernet virtual private networksJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 3, 2017·8 cites·3 claims
- 2390US5101348AMethod of reducing the amount of information included in topology database update messages in a data communications networkIBM·Filed 1988·Granted Mar 31, 1992·140 cites·8 claims
- 2489US5634011ADistributed management communications networkIBM·Filed 1995·Granted May 27, 1997·215 cites·6 claims
- 2587US11546253B2Fast reroute for ethernet virtual private networks—virtual extensible local area networkJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2021·Granted Jan 3, 2023·2 cites·19 claims
- 2687US9071541B2Path weighted equal-cost multipathATLAS ALIA KARIN·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 30, 2015·13 cites·35 claims
- 2787US5109483ANode initiating xid exchanges over an activated link including an exchange of sets of binding signals between nodes for establishing sessionsIBM·Filed 1987·Granted Apr 28, 1992·106 cites·5 claims
- 2886US11277338B2Distributing service function chain data and service function instance data in a networkJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 15, 2022·5 cites·18 claims
- 2985US10009231B1Advertising with a layer three routing protocol constituent link attributes of a layer two bundleJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 26, 2018·5 cites·20 claims
- 3084US10644987B1Supporting label per EVPN instance for an EVPN virtual private wire serviceJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted May 5, 2020·5 cites·20 claims
- 3184US5343473AMethod of determining whether to use preempt/resume or alternate protocol for data transmissionIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Aug 30, 1994·137 cites·1 claims
- 3283US11398972B2Transport endpoint segments for inter-domain segment routingJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jul 26, 2022·2 cites·19 claims
- 3382US9369380B1Handling entropy labels when stitching label-switched pathsJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 14, 2016·4 cites·19 claims
- 3481US9660860B1Path computation delay timer in multi-protocol label switched networksJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 23, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
- 3579US11082337B2Support for multiple virtual networks over an underlay network topologyJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 3, 2021·2 cites·8 claims
- 3679US5289460AMaintenance of message distribution trees in a communications networkIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Feb 22, 1994·95 cites·7 claims
- 3778US5483522APacket switching resource management within nodesIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Jan 9, 1996·72 cites·6 claims
- 3877US11689463B1Reduced traversal for consistent hashing for packet flow load balancingJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 27, 2023·1 cites·19 claims
- 3977US10142239B2Synchronizing multicast state between multi-homed routers in an Ethernet virtual private networkJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 27, 2018·3 cites·24 claims
- 4077US5425021APacket switching resource management within nodesIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Jun 13, 1995·72 cites·3 claims
- 4174US4972437AMethod of controlling limited resource sessions in a data communications networkIBM·Filed 1988·Granted Nov 20, 1990·51 cites·6 claims
- 4273US12289235B2Distributing service function chain data and service function instance data in a networkJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Apr 29, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4373US4967345AMethod of selecting least weight routes in a communications networkIBM·Filed 1988·Granted Oct 30, 1990·44 cites·5 claims
- 4472US9985838B2Mass MAC withdrawal for EVPN-DCI using virtual ESIJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted May 29, 2018·2 cites·18 claims
- 4572US9967174B2Designated forwarder (DF) election based on static DF election procedureJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted May 8, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 4672US5398012ADistributed processing of route selection across networks and subnetworksIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 14, 1995·69 cites·15 claims
- 4771US12021657B1Fast convergence for MAC mobilityJUNIPER NETWORKS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jun 25, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 4870US5365523AForming and maintaining access groups at the lan/wan interfaceIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 15, 1994·57 cites·23 claims
- 4970US5222242ASystem for locating a node containing a requested resource and for selectively verifying the presence of the resource at the nodeIBM·Filed 1990·Granted Jun 22, 1993·74 cites·13 claims
- 5069US6094687ASystem and method for connecting source nodes and destination nodes regarding efficient quality of services route determination using connection profilesFORE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 25, 2000·68 cites·19 claims
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