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Sami Boutros
Also filed as: BOUTROS SAMI
127 granted patents·12 pending applications·1,677 citations·filing 2000–2025
99Inventor score
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139 records- 0199US11265187B2Specifying and utilizing paths through a networkNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 1, 2022·18 cites·20 claims
- 0298US11336556B2Route exchange between logical routers in different datacentersVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 17, 2022·21 cites·22 claims
- 0398US11316773B2Configuring edge device with multiple routing tablesVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 26, 2022·14 cites·20 claims
- 0498US11108728B1Fast distribution of port identifiers for rule processingVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 31, 2021·13 cites·20 claims
- 0598US11038782B2Detecting failure of layer 2 service using broadcast messagesNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 15, 2021·38 cites·16 claims
- 0698US10805192B2Detecting failure of layer 2 service using broadcast messagesNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 13, 2020·50 cites·19 claims
- 0798US10797910B2Specifying and utilizing paths through a networkNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 6, 2020·52 cites·21 claims
- 0898US10659252B2Specifying and utilizing paths through a networkNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted May 19, 2020·59 cites·16 claims
- 0998US9979629B2Distribution of segment identifiers in network functions virtualization and software defined network environmentsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 22, 2018·71 cites·20 claims
- 1098US9118572B2Redundancy for inter-AS L2VPN service with optimal forwardingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 25, 2015·89 cites·20 claims
- 1197US10805181B2Service operation chainingNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 13, 2020·190 cites·18 claims
- 1297US10797966B2Service operation chainingNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 6, 2020·55 cites·21 claims
- 1397US10728174B2Incorporating layer 2 service between two interfaces of gateway deviceNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jul 28, 2020·54 cites·18 claims
- 1497US10454758B2Edge node cluster network redundancy and fast convergence using an underlay anycast VTEP IPNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 22, 2019·26 cites·20 claims
- 1597US10341236B2Anycast edge service gatewaysNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 2, 2019·24 cites·20 claims
- 1697US10091161B2Assignment of router ID for logical routersNICIRA INC·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 2, 2018·28 cites·21 claims
- 1797US9979602B1Network function virtualization infrastructure pod in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 22, 2018·90 cites·20 claims
- 1896US11616755B2Facilitating distributed SNAT serviceVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 28, 2023·5 cites·19 claims
- 1996US11552879B1Creating a packet with a loopback label stack to detect network link/node failuresCIENA CORP·Filed 2021·Granted Jan 10, 2023·11 cites·20 claims
- 2096US11184276B1EVPN signaling using segment routingCIENA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 23, 2021·7 cites·15 claims
- 2196US9634929B2Using context labels to scale MAC tables on computer network edge devicesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 25, 2017·41 cites·19 claims
- 2296US9634893B2Auto-provisioning edge devices in a communication network using control plane communicationsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 25, 2017·21 cites·20 claims
- 2396US9548959B2Address resolution suppression for data center interconnectBOUTROS SAMI·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 17, 2017·41 cites·19 claims
- 2496US9503363B2Segment routing label switch paths in network functions virtualization communications networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 22, 2016·71 cites·20 claims
- 2596US8908517B2Traffic distribution across a plurality of attachment circuits of a multihome site with a computer network using hashing algorithmFILSFILS CLARENCE·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 9, 2014·43 cites·18 claims
- 2696US8724627B2Single-homing and active-active multi-homing in a virtual private LAN serviceFILSFILS CLARENCE·Filed 2011·Granted May 13, 2014·44 cites·18 claims
- 2795US11750476B2Service operation chainingNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 5, 2023·5 cites·19 claims
- 2895US11627017B2VPWS signaling using segment routingCIENA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 11, 2023·4 cites·20 claims
- 2995US10567187B2Methods to optimize multicast routing in overlay networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 18, 2020·13 cites·20 claims
- 3095US10250494B2Segment routing label switch paths in network functions virtualization communications networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 2, 2019·28 cites·20 claims
- 3194US11743168B2Edge device implementing a logical network that spans across multiple routing tablesVMWARE INC·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 29, 2023·2 cites·18 claims
- 3294US11722400B2Centralized approach to SR-TE paths with bandwidth guarantee using a single SIDCIENA CORP·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 8, 2023·3 cites·20 claims
- 3394US11539659B2Fast distribution of port identifiers for rule processingVMWARE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 27, 2022·3 cites·20 claims
- 3494US10911360B2Anycast edge service gatewaysNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 2, 2021·12 cites·20 claims
- 3594US10218523B2Using a central controller cluster to configure a distributed multicast logical routerNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 26, 2019·12 cites·20 claims
- 3693US11451413B2Method for advertising availability of distributed gateway service and machines at host computerVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 20, 2022·4 cites·15 claims
- 3792US11606294B2Host computer configured to facilitate distributed SNAT serviceVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 14, 2023·3 cites·20 claims
- 3892US11516112B2Optimized layer 3 VPN control plane using segment routingCIENA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 29, 2022·3 cites·20 claims
- 3992US10979246B2Multicast packet handling in software-defined networking (SDN) environmentsNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 13, 2021·10 cites·21 claims
- 4092US10958462B2Using a central controller cluster to configure a distributed multicast logical routerNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 23, 2021·8 cites·18 claims
- 4192US10523455B2Distributed multicast logical routerNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 31, 2019·12 cites·20 claims
- 4292US9531627B1Selecting a remote path using forwarding path preferencesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 27, 2016·22 cites·20 claims
- 4391US10873473B2Distributed multicast logical routerNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 22, 2020·9 cites·16 claims
- 4491US9538423B2Routing packet traffic using hierarchical forwarding groupsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 3, 2017·14 cites·22 claims
- 4589US6854063B1Method and apparatus for optimizing firewall processingCISCO TECH IND·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 8, 2005·105 cites·25 claims
- 4688US11824772B2Optimized L2/L3 services over classical MPLS transportCIENA CORP·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 21, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 4788US11063872B2Scalable overlay multicast routingVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 13, 2021·5 cites·20 claims
- 4888US9049133B2Virtual private wire services using E-VPNCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 2, 2015·11 cites·17 claims
- 4987US11265246B2Auto-configuration of routes between neighbor devicesVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 1, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 5087US11153122B2Providing stateful services deployed in redundant gateways connected to asymmetric networkNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 19, 2021·7 cites·20 claims
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