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Stephen Craig Connors
Also filed as: CONNORS JR STEPHEN CRAIG · CONNORS STEPHEN CRAIG
49 granted patents·15 pending applications·2,799 citations·filing 2009–2025
99Inventor score
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64 records- 0199US11677720B2Method and system of establishing a virtual private network in a cloud service for branch networkingNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 13, 2023·51 cites·18 claims
- 0299US11533248B2Method and system of resiliency in cloud-delivered SD-WANNICIRA INC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 20, 2022·61 cites·12 claims
- 0399US11444872B2Method and system of application-aware routing with crowdsourcingNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 13, 2022·74 cites·22 claims
- 0499US11212140B2Network-link method useful for a last-mile connectivity in an edge-gateway multipath systemNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 28, 2021·89 cites·20 claims
- 0599US10938693B2Method and system of resiliency in cloud-delivered SD-WANNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 2, 2021·102 cites·20 claims
- 0699US10805272B2Method and system of establishing a virtual private network in a cloud service for branch networkingNICIRA INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 13, 2020·113 cites·20 claims
- 0799US10749711B2Network-link method useful for a last-mile connectivity in an edge-gateway multipath systemNICIRA INC·Filed 2016·Granted Aug 18, 2020·119 cites·20 claims
- 0899US10523539B2Method and system of resiliency in cloud-delivered SD-WANNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 31, 2019·128 cites·18 claims
- 0999US10498652B2Method and system of application-aware routing with crowdsourcingNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 3, 2019·125 cites·19 claims
- 1099US10135789B2Method and system of establishing a virtual private network in a cloud service for branch networkingNICIRA INC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 20, 2018·138 cites·20 claims
- 1198US11611507B2Managing forwarding elements at edge nodes connected to a virtual networkVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 21, 2023·54 cites·20 claims
- 1298US11374904B2Method and system of a cloud-based multipath routing protocolNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 28, 2022·75 cites·17 claims
- 1398US11349722B2Method and system of connecting to a multipath hub in a clusterNICIRA INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 31, 2022·73 cites·20 claims
- 1498US11323307B2Method and system of a dynamic high-availability mode based on current wide area network connectivityNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted May 3, 2022·81 cites·14 claims
- 1598US11223514B2Method and system of a dynamic high-availability mode based on current wide area network connectivityNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 11, 2022·91 cites·18 claims
- 1698US11050588B2Method and system of overlay flow controlNICIRA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 29, 2021·94 cites·20 claims
- 1798US11044190B2Managing forwarding elements at edge nodes connected to a virtual networkVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 22, 2021·94 cites·20 claims
- 1898US10778528B2Method and system of connecting to a multipath hub in a clusterNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 15, 2020·113 cites·20 claims
- 1998US10454714B2Method and system of overlay flow controlNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 22, 2019·128 cites·20 claims
- 2098US10425382B2Method and system of a cloud-based multipath routing protocolNICIRA INC·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 24, 2019·129 cites·20 claims
- 2197US11722925B2Performing service class aware load balancing to distribute packets of a flow among multiple network linksVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 8, 2023·39 cites·14 claims
- 2297US11689959B2Generating path usability state for different sub-paths offered by a network linkVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 27, 2023·46 cites·17 claims
- 2397US11606712B2Dynamically assigning service classes for a QOS aware network linkVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 14, 2023·53 cites·19 claims
- 2497US11438789B2Computing and using different path quality metrics for different service classesVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 6, 2022·68 cites·20 claims
- 2597US11418997B2Using heart beats to monitor operational state of service classes of a QoS aware network linkVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 16, 2022·74 cites·20 claims
- 2697US10574528B2Network multi-source inbound quality of service methods and systemsNICIRA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 25, 2020·124 cites·16 claims
- 2797US9722815B2Edge-gateway multipath method and systemMUKUNDAN SUNIL·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 1, 2017·145 cites·11 claims
- 2897US8274891B2Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-pathsAVERI JOHN EARNEST·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 25, 2012·160 cites·30 claims
- 2996US8644164B2Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-pathsAVERI JOHN EARNEST·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 4, 2014·41 cites·18 claims
- 3095US8125907B2Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-pathsAVERI JOHN EARNEST·Filed 2009·Granted Feb 28, 2012·46 cites·35 claims
- 3194US12057993B1Identifying and remediating anomalies in a self-healing networkVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Aug 6, 2024·7 cites·19 claims
- 3294US12034587B1Identifying and remediating anomalies in a self-healing networkVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 9, 2024·7 cites·20 claims
- 3393US11902086B2Method and system of a dynamic high-availability mode based on current wide area network connectivityNICIRA INC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 13, 2024·2 cites·18 claims
- 3493US10341237B2Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-pathsTALARI NETWORKS INCORPORATED·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 2, 2019·9 cites·19 claims
- 3593US9100338B2Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-pathsAVERI JOHN EARNEST·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 4, 2015·16 cites·20 claims
- 3693US9069727B2Adaptive private network with geographically redundant network control nodesTALARI NETWORKS INC·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 30, 2015·17 cites·20 claims
- 3792US2025358259A1Seamlessly verifying upgrades using mirrored dataplanesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 3891US9729452B2Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-pathsAVERI JOHN EARNEST·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 8, 2017·8 cites·20 claims
- 3989US9778999B2Adaptive private network with geographically redundant network control nodesTALARI NETWORKS INCORPORATED·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 3, 2017·4 cites·20 claims
- 4088US12160408B2Method and system of establishing a virtual private network in a cloud service for branch networkingNICIRA INC·Filed 2023·Granted Dec 3, 2024·1 cites·20 claims
- 4186US12407649B2Seamlessly verifying upgrades using mirrored dataplanesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2024·Granted Sep 2, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4286US2025039052A1Multi-data plane architecture for continuous integration, continuous deployment (ci/cd)CISCO TECH INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4386US2025358149A1Network-link method useful for a last-mile connectivity in an edge-gateway multipath systemVELOCLOUD NETWORKS LLC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4486US2025039135A1Determining security actions at policy-enforcement points using metadata representing a security chain for a data flowCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4583US2025039220A1Dynamic placement of compensating controls on dpu and ebpf based on workload, trust, and threat scoringCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4681US2025330445A1Multi-data plane architecture for seamless upgradesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4779US2024380669A1Method and system of connecting to a multipath hub in a clusterNICIRA INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4877US12348484B2Multi-data plane architecture for seamless upgradesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2024·Granted Jul 1, 2025·0 cites·18 claims
- 4977US12335131B2Method and system of resiliency in cloud-delivered SD-WANVMware LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 17, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 5076US2024048408A1Method and system of overlay flow controlNICIRA INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
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