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William Mark Townsley
Also filed as: TOWNSLEY WILLIAM · TOWNSLEY WILLIAM M · TOWNSLEY WILLIAM MARK
76 granted patents·7 pending applications·908 citations·filing 2003–2025
99Inventor score
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83 records- 0199US7673048B1Methods and apparatus for establishing a computerized device tunnel connectionCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 2, 2010·334 cites·12 claims
- 0295US12212434B2Method and system for managing network-to-network interconnectionCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jan 28, 2025·2 cites·18 claims
- 0394US7986686B2Techniques for distributing network provider digital content to customer premises nodesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 26, 2011·31 cites·54 claims
- 0494US7568040B2Techniques for establishing subscriber sessions on an access network using DHCPCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 28, 2009·36 cites·47 claims
- 0594US7535856B2Techniques for zero touch provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted May 19, 2009·45 cites·72 claims
- 0694US7420933B2Techniques for zero touch provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network by pushing configuration from a serverCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 2, 2008·45 cites·27 claims
- 0793US12058051B2Flow parser and per flow data center utilization in a cloud-based secure access service environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 6, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
- 0893US10320683B2Reliable load-balancer using segment routing and real-time application monitoringCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 11, 2019·10 cites·20 claims
- 0993US9191318B1Transitioning between communication protocols between networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 17, 2015·20 cites·21 claims
- 1093US8416763B1System and method for providing quality inter-domain network time transportMONTINI LAURENT·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 9, 2013·53 cites·22 claims
- 1193US7853708B2Techniques for replacing point to point protocol with dynamic host configuration protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 14, 2010·35 cites·35 claims
- 1291US8175078B2Redundant pseudowires between Ethernet access domainsVOIT ERIC·Filed 2005·Granted May 8, 2012·22 cites·8 claims
- 1391US8064485B1System and method for providing quality inter-domain network time transportMONTINI LAURENT·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 22, 2011·33 cites·23 claims
- 1491US7624181B2Techniques for authenticating a subscriber for an access network using DHCPCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 24, 2009·22 cites·42 claims
- 1590US11283707B2Segment routing with fast reroute for container networkingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 22, 2022·3 cites·20 claims
- 1690US10511534B2Stateless distributed load-balancingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 17, 2019·6 cites·17 claims
- 1789US10469379B2System and method to facilitate content delivery to multiple recipients in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 5, 2019·6 cites·20 claims
- 1889US7769037B2Techniques for using first sign of life at edge nodes for a virtual private networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 3, 2010·24 cites·23 claims
- 1988US8625412B2Redundant pseudowires between ethernet access domainsVOIT ERIC·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 7, 2014·10 cites·13 claims
- 2088US7778199B2Techniques for customer self-provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 17, 2010·21 cites·55 claims
- 2187US11144340B2Placement of container workloads triggered by network traffic for efficient computing at network edge devicesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 12, 2021·8 cites·20 claims
- 2287US10313415B2Using segment routing to access chunks of contentSURCOUF ANDRE·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 4, 2019·7 cites·10 claims
- 2387US7751399B2Scalable virtual private local area network serviceCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 6, 2010·17 cites·27 claims
- 2486US10812374B2Segment routing with fast reroute for container networkingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 20, 2020·6 cites·20 claims
- 2586US10594649B2Network centric adaptive bit rate in an IP networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 17, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 2686US7483996B2Techniques for migrating a point to point protocol to a protocol for an access networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 27, 2009·17 cites·61 claims
- 2784US10917351B2Reliable load-balancer using segment routing and real-time application monitoringCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 9, 2021·3 cites·20 claims
- 2884US8848702B2Automated transitioning between different communication protocols in a networkTROAN OLE·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 30, 2014·7 cites·22 claims
- 2983US11470176B2Efficient and flexible load-balancing for clusters of caches under latency constraintCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Oct 11, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 3083US10924448B2Content delivery from home networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 16, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 3183US8782256B2Deterministic session load-balancing and redundancy of access servers in a computer networkDEC WOJCIECH·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 15, 2014·10 cites·28 claims
- 3278US11190445B2System and method to facilitate content delivery to multiple recipients in a network environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 30, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 3377US10680955B2Stateless and reliable load balancing using segment routing and TCP timestampsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 9, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 3477US10545914B2Distributed object storageCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 28, 2020·2 cites·18 claims
- 3577US8059527B2Techniques for oversubscribing edge nodes for virtual private networksTOWNSLEY WILLIAM MARK·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 15, 2011·8 cites·11 claims
- 3676US11855802B2Method and system for managing network-to-network interconnectionCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2023·Granted Dec 26, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3776US8868775B2Load balancing manipulation of packet flows within a transport conduitFILSFILS CLARENCE·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 21, 2014·6 cites·22 claims
- 3875US12513088B2Flow parser and per flow data center utilization in a cloud-based secure access service environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2024·Granted Dec 30, 2025·0 cites·18 claims
- 3975US11113114B2Distributed object placement, replication, and retrieval for cloud-scale storage and data deliveryCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 7, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 4075US8086749B2Techniques for migrating a point to point protocol to a protocol for an access networkTOWNSLEY WILLIAM MARK·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 27, 2011·7 cites·14 claims
- 4174US10015092B2Automated transitioning between different communication protocols in a networkTROAN OLE·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 3, 2018·3 cites·21 claims
- 4274US7525972B2Techniques for encapsulating point to point protocol (PPP) over Ethernet framesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 28, 2009·8 cites·20 claims
- 4373US11575540B2Method and system for managing network-to-network interconnectionCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 7, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 4473US11277341B2Resilient segment routing service hunting with TCP session stickinessCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 15, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 4573US8050267B2Simple virtual private network for small local area networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 1, 2011·5 cites·32 claims
- 4673US2025330453A1Internet protocol security and security parameter index summarization and data routingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4772US8400943B2IPv6 addressing over non-IPv6 systemsDEC WOJCIECH·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 19, 2013·4 cites·21 claims
- 4871US10506469B1Resilient in-band mobile core user plane function selection using segment routing load balancingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 10, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 4970US11201921B2Virtual devices in internet of things (IoT) nodesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 14, 2021·1 cites·17 claims
- 5070US10536561B2Data stream pipelining and replication at a delivery node of a content delivery networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 14, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
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