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Michael Gregory Ferrara
Also filed as: FERRARA MICHAEL G · Ferrara Michael Gregory
26 granted patents·3 pending applications·166 citations·filing 2015–2024
95Inventor score
Files withBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC29
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29 records- 0198US9912610B2Data-plane stateful processing units in packet processing pipelinesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 6, 2018·37 cites·20 claims
- 0296US10616101B1Forwarding element with flow learning circuit in its data planeBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 7, 2020·16 cites·20 claims
- 0395US10454833B1Pipeline chainingBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 22, 2019·21 cites·19 claims
- 0495US10318587B1Algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookupBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 11, 2019·22 cites·20 claims
- 0595US10313495B1Compiler and hardware interactions to remove action dependencies in the data plane of a network forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 4, 2019·11 cites·18 claims
- 0695US10127983B1Error handling for match action unit memory of a forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 13, 2018·20 cites·20 claims
- 0794US10601732B1Configurable packet processing pipeline for handling non-packet dataBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 24, 2020·8 cites·17 claims
- 0894US10511523B1Network forwarding element with data plane packet snapshotting capabilitiesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 17, 2019·13 cites·18 claims
- 0991US10594630B1Expansion of packet data within processing pipelineBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 17, 2020·6 cites·23 claims
- 1085US10826840B1Multiple copies of stateful tablesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 3, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 1185US10771387B1Multiple packet data container types for a processing pipelineBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 8, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 1284US11503141B1Stateful processing unit with min/max capabilityBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 15, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 1379US10873534B1Data plane with flow learning circuitBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 22, 2020·2 cites·27 claims
- 1478US12381962B2Expansion of packet data within processing pipelineBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Aug 5, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 1578US2025094497A1Algorithmic tcam based ternary lookupBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 1674US10764176B1Compiler and hardware interactions to reuse register fields in the data plane of a network forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 1, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 1773US12197509B2Algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookupBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 14, 2025·0 cites·24 claims
- 1872US11700212B2Expansion of packet data within processing pipelineBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2021·Granted Jul 11, 2023·0 cites·26 claims
- 1972US10303544B1Data plane error detection for ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) of a forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2017·Granted May 28, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 2068US11362967B2Expansion of packet data within processing pipelineBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 14, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 2164US11687594B2Algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookupBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 27, 2023·0 cites·21 claims
- 2262US10515699B1Error handling for match action unit memory of a forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 24, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 2361US11283709B2Network forwarding element with data plane packet snapshotting capabilitiesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 22, 2022·0 cites·17 claims
- 2460US10805437B2Compiler and hardware interactions to remove action dependencies in the data plane of a network forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Oct 13, 2020·0 cites·19 claims
- 2559US2020204501A1Data-plane stateful processing units in packet processing pipelinesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2020·Application pending·0 cites
- 2657US11258703B1Data plane for learning flows, collecting metadata regarding learned flows and exporting metadata regarding learned flowsBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 22, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 2757US10924400B1Configuring a network forwarding element with data plane packet snapshotting capabilitiesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 16, 2021·0 cites·21 claims
- 2854US2018234355A1Data-plane stateful processing units in packet processing pipelinesBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2018·Application pending·0 cites
- 2953US10877838B1Data plane error detection for ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) of a forwarding elementBAREFOOT NETWORKS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 29, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
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