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Justin Pettit
Also filed as: PETTIT JUSTIN
45 granted patents·2 pending applications·1,322 citations·filing 2002–2023
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47 records- 0198US11347537B2Logical processing for containersNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 31, 2022·17 cites·20 claims
- 0298US9686200B2Flow cache hierarchyNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 20, 2017·75 cites·19 claims
- 0398US9558029B2Logical processing for containersNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 31, 2017·52 cites·20 claims
- 0498US9548924B2Detecting an elephant flow based on the size of a packetNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 17, 2017·63 cites·20 claims
- 0598US8966035B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing distributed virtual switches in several hosts and physical forwarding elementsCASADO MARTIN·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 24, 2015·97 cites·28 claims
- 0698US8958298B2Centralized logical L3 routingZHANG RONGHUA·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 17, 2015·167 cites·14 claims
- 0797US11095536B2Detecting and handling large flowsNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 17, 2021·5 cites·20 claims
- 0897US10671424B2Logical processing for containersNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 2, 2020·19 cites·20 claims
- 0997US10193771B2Detecting and handling elephant flowsNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 29, 2019·35 cites·20 claims
- 1097US9838276B2Detecting an elephant flow based on the size of a packetNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 5, 2017·16 cites·20 claims
- 1197US9699070B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 4, 2017·53 cites·20 claims
- 1297US9455901B2Managing software and hardware forwarding elements to define virtual networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 27, 2016·45 cites·17 claims
- 1396US11748148B2Logical processing for containersNICIRA INC·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 5, 2023·3 cites·18 claims
- 1496US10153965B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 11, 2018·17 cites·20 claims
- 1595US9971624B2Logical processing for containersNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 15, 2018·12 cites·24 claims
- 1695US9407580B2Maintaining data stored with a packetNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 2, 2016·28 cites·21 claims
- 1795US9083609B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksCASADO MARTIN·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 14, 2015·40 cites·24 claims
- 1894US10757077B2Stateful connection policy filteringNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 25, 2020·50 cites·20 claims
- 1994US10666530B2Detecting and handling large flowsNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted May 26, 2020·7 cites·21 claims
- 2094US9876672B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 23, 2018·12 cites·20 claims
- 2194US9590919B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 7, 2017·12 cites·20 claims
- 2294US7058968B2Computer security and management systemCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 6, 2006·425 cites·49 claims
- 2393US11811669B2Inspecting operations of a machine to detect elephant flowsNICIRA INC·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 7, 2023·2 cites·19 claims
- 2492US11522788B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 6, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 2592US10924386B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 16, 2021·6 cites·20 claims
- 2691US10158538B2Reporting elephant flows to a network controllerNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 18, 2018·9 cites·16 claims
- 2790US9602398B2Dynamically generating flows with wildcard fieldsNICIRA INC·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 21, 2017·12 cites·20 claims
- 2889US9967199B2Inspecting operations of a machine to detect elephant flowsNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 8, 2018·9 cites·17 claims
- 2987US12355642B2Detecting and handling large flowsVMware LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Jul 8, 2025·1 cites·20 claims
- 3087US10931600B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 23, 2021·4 cites·18 claims
- 3187US10530711B2Extensible virtual switch datapathNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 7, 2020·9 cites·24 claims
- 3285US10659373B2Processing packets according to hierarchy of flow entry storagesNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted May 19, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 3380US11539630B2Inspecting operations of a machine to detect elephant flowsNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 27, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 3480US10476735B2Representation of match conditions in logical pipeline dataNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 12, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 3579US10749736B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 18, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 3678US12401599B2Inspecting operations of a machine to detect elephant flowsVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Aug 26, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3778US2023367622A1Logical processing for containersNICIRA INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 3877US10305725B2Local controller agent for converting logical pipeline dataNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 28, 2019·2 cites·19 claims
- 3977US10200235B2Distributed database structure for logical and physical network dataNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 5, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 4076US10382324B2Dynamically generating flows with wildcard fieldsNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 13, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 4173US2022400088A1Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 4270US11425055B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 23, 2022·0 cites·18 claims
- 4367US12155576B2Packet classification with multiple classifiersVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Nov 26, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 4467US11683214B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 20, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
- 4566US11632332B2Packet classification with multiple classifiersVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 18, 2023·1 cites·23 claims
- 4664US9894188B2Packet data restoration for flow-based forwarding elementNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 13, 2018·1 cites·20 claims
- 4762US9794222B2Stateful processing for stateless forwarding elementNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 17, 2017·1 cites·19 claims
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