H04L 2012/4629
Using multilayer switching
Official title: {using multilayer switching, e.g. layer 3 switching}
H04L2012/4629 (Using multilayer switching) appears on 236 US grants and 277 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system of overlay flow control131US 10,454,714 B2Nicira, Inc. · 2019
- Logical router with multiple routing components100US 9,787,605 B2Nicira, Inc. · 2017
- Method and system of overlay flow control99US 11,050,588 B2Nicira, Inc. · 2021
- Implementing logical router uplinks94US 10,079,779 B2Nicira, Inc. · 2018
- Transit logical switch within logical router92US 10,129,180 B2Nicira, Inc. · 2018