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Nicolas G. Droux
Also filed as: DROUX NICOLAS · DROUX NICOLAS G
80 granted patents·2 pending applications·1,125 citations·filing 2004–2016
99Inventor score
Files withSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC24ORACLE AMERICA INC23DROUX NICOLAS G12TRIPATHI SUNAY11ORACLE INT CORP6
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82 records- 0198US7738457B2Method and system for virtual routing using containersORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 15, 2010·103 cites·17 claims
- 0298US7630368B2Virtual network interface card loopback fastpathSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 8, 2009·130 cites·19 claims
- 0395US7941539B2Method and system for creating a virtual router in a blade chassis to maintain connectivityORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2008·Granted May 10, 2011·38 cites·20 claims
- 0495US7640591B1Method and apparatus for limiting denial of service attack by limiting traffic for hostsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 29, 2009·41 cites·22 claims
- 0595US7634608B2Bridging network componentsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 15, 2009·42 cites·12 claims
- 0694US7746783B1Method and apparatus for monitoring packets at high data ratesORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 29, 2010·42 cites·15 claims
- 0794US7733890B1Network interface card resource mapping to virtual network interface cardsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 8, 2010·36 cites·14 claims
- 0894US7684423B2System and method for virtual network interface cards based on internet protocol addressesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 23, 2010·36 cites·12 claims
- 0993US7788411B2Method and system for automatically reflecting hardware resource allocation modificationsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 31, 2010·32 cites·13 claims
- 1093US7631182B1Secure protocol handshake offload using TNICsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 8, 2009·32 cites·18 claims
- 1192US8036127B2Notifying network applications of receive overflow conditionsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 11, 2011·23 cites·4 claims
- 1292US7716730B1Cryptographic offload using TNICsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2005·Granted May 11, 2010·31 cites·16 claims
- 1392US7499457B1Method and apparatus for enforcing packet destination specific priority using threadsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 3, 2009·29 cites·18 claims
- 1491US7739736B1Method and apparatus for dynamically isolating affected services under denial of service attackORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 15, 2010·27 cites·16 claims
- 1591US7643482B2System and method for virtual switching in a hostSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 5, 2010·23 cites·20 claims
- 1691US7607168B1Network interface decryption and classification techniqueSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 20, 2009·25 cites·15 claims
- 1791US7499463B1Method and apparatus for enforcing bandwidth utilization of a virtual serialization queueSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 3, 2009·26 cites·19 claims
- 1890US7792140B2Reflecting the bandwidth assigned to a virtual network interface card through its link speedORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 7, 2010·21 cites·17 claims
- 1989US7627899B1Method and apparatus for improving user experience for legitimate traffic of a service impacted by denial of service attackSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 1, 2009·18 cites·24 claims
- 2088US8625431B2Notifying network applications of receive overflow conditionsDROUX NICOLAS G·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 7, 2014·10 cites·14 claims
- 2188US8315156B2Method and system for distributing network traffic among multiple direct hardware access datapathsDROUX NICOLAS G·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 20, 2012·10 cites·9 claims
- 2288US8174984B2Managing traffic on virtualized lanes between a network switch and a virtual machineTRIPATHI SUNAY·Filed 2009·Granted May 8, 2012·18 cites·11 claims
- 2387US7613132B2Method and system for controlling virtual machine bandwidthSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 3, 2009·15 cites·18 claims
- 2486US8400917B2Method and system for load balancing using queued packet informationTRIPATHI SUNAY·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 19, 2013·8 cites·13 claims
- 2585US8726093B2Method and system for maintaining direct hardware access in the event of network interface card failureDROUX NICOLAS G·Filed 2010·Granted May 13, 2014·9 cites·18 claims
- 2685US7697434B1Method and apparatus for enforcing resource utilization of a containerSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 13, 2010·15 cites·18 claims
- 2784US7984123B2Method and system for reconfiguring a virtual network pathORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 19, 2011·14 cites·20 claims
- 2884US7885257B2Multiple virtual network stack instances using virtual network interface cardsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 8, 2011·12 cites·18 claims
- 2984US7715416B2Generalized serialization queue framework for protocol processingOPEN COMPUTING TRUST 1·Filed 2006·Granted May 11, 2010·16 cites·5 claims
- 3083US7912926B2Method and system for network configuration for containersORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 22, 2011·11 cites·23 claims
- 3182US8086739B2Method and system for monitoring virtual wiresTRIPATHI SUNAY·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 27, 2011·10 cites·10 claims
- 3282US7591011B1Assigning higher priority to transactions based on subscription levelSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 15, 2009·11 cites·20 claims
- 3381US8635284B1Method and apparatus for defending against denial of service attacksTRIPATHI SUNAY·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 21, 2014·10 cites·16 claims
- 3480US8005022B2Host operating system bypass for packets destined for a virtual machineORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 23, 2011·9 cites·15 claims
- 3579US7983266B2Generalized serialization queue framework for protocol processingOPEN COMPUTING TRUST I·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 19, 2011·10 cites·8 claims
- 3678US7826359B2Method and system for load balancing using queued packet informationORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 2, 2010·6 cites·7 claims
- 3778US7675920B1Method and apparatus for processing network traffic associated with specific protocolsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 9, 2010·8 cites·18 claims
- 3877US7623538B1Hardware-based network interface per-ring resource accountingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 24, 2009·7 cites·12 claims
- 3977US7593404B1Dynamic hardware classification engine updating for a network interfaceSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 22, 2009·7 cites·7 claims
- 4077US7373504B1Kernel-level cryptographic kernel interfaceSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 13, 2008·29 cites·55 claims
- 4176US8254261B2Method and system for intra-host communicationDROUX NICOLAS G·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 28, 2012·7 cites·12 claims
- 4275US8478853B2Handling of multiple MAC unicast addresses with virtual machinesDROUX NICOLAS G·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 2, 2013·6 cites·14 claims
- 4375US7944923B2Method and system for classifying network trafficORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2008·Granted May 17, 2011·6 cites·8 claims
- 4474US7783784B1Method and apparatus for adaptive selection of algorithms to load and spread traffic on an aggregation of network interface cardsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 24, 2010·18 cites·21 claims
- 4574US7742474B2Virtual network interface cards with VLAN functionalityORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 22, 2010·5 cites·17 claims
- 4673US9083611B2Method and system for virtual network interface cards (VNICs) over aggregation spanning multiple switchesORACLE INT CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 14, 2015·4 cites·9 claims
- 4770US9036464B2Method and system for distributing network traffic among multiple direct hardware access datapathsORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2012·Granted May 19, 2015·2 cites·17 claims
- 4869US8392565B2Network memory pools for packet destinations and virtual machinesTRIPATHI SUNAY·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 5, 2013·4 cites·20 claims
- 4969US7672239B1System and method for conducting fast offloading of a connection onto a network interface cardSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 2, 2010·12 cites·34 claims
- 5068US8675644B2Enhanced virtual switchTRIPATHI SUNAY·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 18, 2014·3 cites·16 claims
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