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FORCE10 NETWORKS INC
US·60 granted patents·2 pending applications·2,610 citations·filing 2000–2016
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62 records- 0198US8345439B1Modular chassis arrangement with redundant logic power delivery systemFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 1, 2013·81 cites·15 claims
- 0296US7190696B1System and method for distributing packets among a plurality of paths to a destinationFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 13, 2007·242 cites·72 claims
- 0396US6812803B2Passive transmission line equalization using circuit-board thru-holesFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 2, 2004·103 cites·22 claims
- 0495US8014278B1Adaptive load balancing between ECMP or LAG port group membersFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 6, 2011·187 cites·18 claims
- 0595US7903554B1Leaking component link traffic engineering informationFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 8, 2011·110 cites·16 claims
- 0695US7897880B1Inductance-tuned circuit board via crosstalk structuresFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 1, 2011·109 cites·29 claims
- 0795US7650525B1SPI-4.2 dynamic implementation without additional phase locked loopsFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 19, 2010·95 cites·20 claims
- 0895US7558872B1Point-to-point protocol flow control extensionFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 7, 2009·52 cites·6 claims
- 0994US7277425B1High-speed router switching architectureFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 2, 2007·123 cites·22 claims
- 1094US6941649B2Method of fabricating a high-layer-count backplaneFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 13, 2005·53 cites·10 claims
- 1193US7154902B1Epoch-based packet switchingFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 26, 2006·103 cites·23 claims
- 1293US6988162B2High-speed router with single backplane distributing both power and signalingFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 17, 2006·65 cites·19 claims
- 1392US7760668B1Self-reconfiguring spanning treeFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 20, 2010·77 cites·28 claims
- 1492US7729296B1Distributed BPDU processing for spanning tree protocolsFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 1, 2010·189 cites·18 claims
- 1591US6975638B1Interleaved weighted fair queuing mechanism and systemFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 13, 2005·114 cites·25 claims
- 1691US6904015B1Congestion avoidance profiles in a packet switching systemFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 7, 2005·100 cites·42 claims
- 1791US6745277B1Intelligent interleaving scheme for multibank memoryFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 1, 2004·90 cites·21 claims
- 1889US7957391B1Low overhead aggregation at the physical layerFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 7, 2011·18 cites·12 claims
- 1989US6963576B1Scheduling and arbitration scheme for network processing deviceFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 8, 2005·72 cites·29 claims
- 2088US8345536B1Multicast high availability enhancements for non-stop forwardingFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2009·Granted Jan 1, 2013·43 cites·14 claims
- 2188US7615709B2Circuit board through-hole impedance tuning using clearance size variationsFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 10, 2009·10 cites·7 claims
- 2287US7945884B1Backplane routing arrangement with decreased crosstalkFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2008·Granted May 17, 2011·20 cites·8 claims
- 2387US7869432B1Peer-to-peer link aggregation across a service provider networkFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 11, 2011·96 cites·9 claims
- 2487US7864706B1Border gateway protocol peer dampeningFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 4, 2011·20 cites·10 claims
- 2587US7513923B1Variable impedance air filter for electronic systemsFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 7, 2009·26 cites·51 claims
- 2687US6822876B2High-speed electrical router backplane with noise-isolated power distributionFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 23, 2004·37 cites·29 claims
- 2786US7405947B1Backplane with power plane having a digital ground structure in signal regionsFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 29, 2008·11 cites·9 claims
- 2886US7336502B1High-speed router with backplane using tuned-impedance thru-holes and viasFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 26, 2008·29 cites·14 claims
- 2985US7876900B1Hybrid scrambled transmission codingFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 25, 2011·12 cites·28 claims
- 3085US7843830B1Resilient retransmission of epoch dataFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 30, 2010·14 cites·23 claims
- 3185US7839869B1Method and apparatus for providing virtual point to point connections in a networkFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 23, 2010·14 cites·8 claims
- 3284US6944159B1Method and apparatus for providing virtual point to point connections in a networkFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 13, 2005·43 cites·25 claims
- 3383US8027256B1Multi-port network device using lookup cost backpressureFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 27, 2011·18 cites·23 claims
- 3481US7009974B1Method and apparatus for updating addresses in network processing deviceFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 7, 2006·35 cites·19 claims
- 3580US7836293B1Accelerated deserialized boot implementation for a multiprocessor systemFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 16, 2010·22 cites·21 claims
- 3680US7274696B1Scalable redundant switch fabric architectureFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 25, 2007·31 cites·23 claims
- 3779US9276835B2Packet segmentation with different segment sizes for a switch fabricFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 1, 2016·3 cites·20 claims
- 3877US7224671B2Method and apparatus for load balancing in network processing deviceFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 29, 2007·27 cites·15 claims
- 3976US7577758B2Hardware support for wire-speed, stateful matching and filtration of network trafficFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 18, 2009·18 cites·37 claims
- 4076US7468979B2Layer-1 packet filteringFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 23, 2008·17 cites·39 claims
- 4175US8026450B2Multi-dielectric material circuit board supporting high-speed and low-speed signalingFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 27, 2011·3 cites·4 claims
- 4274US9705824B2Intelligent chassis managementFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 11, 2017·2 cites·20 claims
- 4374US7239527B1Backplane with power plane having a digital ground structure in signal regionsFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 3, 2007·14 cites·9 claims
- 4472US7949134B2Multiplexed multilane hybrid scrambled transmission codingFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2007·Granted May 24, 2011·5 cites·35 claims
- 4571US10462894B2Circuit boardFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 29, 2019·0 cites·22 claims
- 4669US7448132B2Method of fabricating a high-layer-count backplaneFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 11, 2008·2 cites·5 claims
- 4767US7630301B2Method and apparatus for line and path selection within SONET/SDH based networksFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 8, 2009·3 cites·21 claims
- 4867US7088711B2High-speed router backplaneFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 8, 2006·17 cites·20 claims
- 4964US7346067B2High efficiency data buffering in a computer network deviceFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 18, 2008·10 cites·33 claims
- 5063US9160677B2Segmentation of network packets for a switch fabricFORCE10 NETWORKS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 13, 2015·1 cites·19 claims
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