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Benjamin L. Pfaff
Also filed as: PFAFF BENJAMIN L · PFAFF BENJAMIN LEVY
25 granted patents·3 pending applications·421 citations·filing 2008–2023
96Inventor score
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28 records- 0198US9686200B2Flow cache hierarchyNICIRA INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 20, 2017·75 cites·19 claims
- 0298US8966035B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing distributed virtual switches in several hosts and physical forwarding elementsCASADO MARTIN·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 24, 2015·97 cites·28 claims
- 0397US9699070B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 4, 2017·53 cites·20 claims
- 0497US9455901B2Managing software and hardware forwarding elements to define virtual networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 27, 2016·45 cites·17 claims
- 0596US10153965B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 11, 2018·17 cites·20 claims
- 0695US9083609B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksCASADO MARTIN·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 14, 2015·40 cites·24 claims
- 0795US8913483B2Fault tolerant managed switching element architecturePFAFF BENJAMIN L·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 16, 2014·30 cites·28 claims
- 0894US9876672B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 23, 2018·12 cites·20 claims
- 0994US9590919B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 7, 2017·12 cites·20 claims
- 1092US11522788B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 6, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 1192US10924386B2Database protocol for exchanging forwarding state with hardware switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 16, 2021·6 cites·20 claims
- 1291US9306875B2Managed switch architectures for implementing logical datapath setsCASADO MARTIN·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 5, 2016·6 cites·34 claims
- 1387US10931600B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 23, 2021·4 cites·18 claims
- 1485US10659373B2Processing packets according to hierarchy of flow entry storagesNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted May 19, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 1584US10798048B2Address resolution protocol suppression using a flow-based forwarding elementNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 6, 2020·6 cites·22 claims
- 1680US10476735B2Representation of match conditions in logical pipeline dataNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 12, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 1779US10749736B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 18, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 1878US9654424B2Managed forwarding element with conjunctive match flow entriesNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 16, 2017·3 cites·22 claims
- 1977US10305725B2Local controller agent for converting logical pipeline dataNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 28, 2019·2 cites·19 claims
- 2077US10200235B2Distributed database structure for logical and physical network dataNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 5, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 2173US2022400088A1Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
- 2270US11425055B2Method and apparatus for implementing and managing virtual switchesNICIRA INC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 23, 2022·0 cites·18 claims
- 2367US12155576B2Packet classification with multiple classifiersVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Nov 26, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2467US11683214B2Network operating system for managing and securing networksNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 20, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
- 2566US11632332B2Packet classification with multiple classifiersVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 18, 2023·1 cites·23 claims
- 2662US10348619B2Generating conjunctive match flow entriesNICIRA INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 9, 2019·1 cites·21 claims
- 2751US2024155026A1Green load balancing in global load balancing deploymentsVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 2846US2024160619A1Software defined network stackVMware LLC·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
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