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Robert W. Sherwood
Also filed as: SHERWOOD ROBERT W · SHERWOOD ROBERT WESLEY
14 granted patents·309 citations·filing 2011–2018
93Inventor score
Technology areasH04L
Files withBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC9SHERWOOD ROBERT W2ADAMS ROBERT EDWARD1BIG SWITCH NETWORKS LLC1RAMASUBRAMANIAN SRINIVASAN1
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14 records- 0198US8693344B1Systems and methods for generating packet forwarding rules based on network policyADAMS ROBERT EDWARD·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 8, 2014·174 cites·18 claims
- 0293US9036636B1System and methods for managing network packet broadcastingSHERWOOD ROBERT W·Filed 2012·Granted May 19, 2015·35 cites·16 claims
- 0390US9548896B2Systems and methods for performing network service insertionBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 17, 2017·21 cites·15 claims
- 0489US9935831B1Systems and methods for controlling network switches using a switch modeling interface at a controllerBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 3, 2018·17 cites·18 claims
- 0589US9819551B2Systems and methods for testing networks with a controllerBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 14, 2017·18 cites·23 claims
- 0687US10264040B2Systems and methods to manage multicast trafficBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 16, 2019·7 cites·20 claims
- 0786US9331930B1Systems and methods for forwarding network packets in a network using network domain topology informationRAMASUBRAMANIAN SRINIVASAN·Filed 2012·Granted May 3, 2016·13 cites·20 claims
- 0879US10862933B2Systems and methods to manage multicast trafficBIG SWITCH NETWORKS LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 8, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 0979US10250529B2Systems and methods for performing logical network forwarding using a controllerBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 2, 2019·6 cites·22 claims
- 1076US9264295B1Systems and methods for forwarding broadcast network packets with a controllerSHERWOOD ROBERT W·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 16, 2016·5 cites·21 claims
- 1173US9548900B1Systems and methods for forwarding network packets in a network using network domain topology informationBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 17, 2017·2 cites·14 claims
- 1271US9600263B2Systems and methods for performing uninterrupted network upgrades with controllersBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 21, 2017·4 cites·24 claims
- 1368US9813312B2Systems and methods for performing debugging operations on networks using a controllerBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 7, 2017·2 cites·14 claims
- 1466US10270645B2Systems and methods for handling link aggregation failover with a controllerBIG SWITCH NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 23, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
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