| Utility: Cooling for slot mounted electrical modules Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 1 Dec 2020 | 8 Feb 2018 | 1 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for a scalable network with efficient link utilization Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Nov 2020 | 23 Oct 2018 | 24 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Reduced configuration for multi-stage network fabrics Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Nov 2020 | 22 Jun 2018 | 24 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: End-to-end monitoring of overlay networks providing virtualized network services Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Nov 2020 | 4 Oct 2017 | 24 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Configuring service load balancers with specified backend virtual networks Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Nov 2020 | 29 Mar 2019 | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Supporting near real time service level agreements Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Nov 2020 | 29 Mar 2019 | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Forwarding multicast data packets using bit index explicit replication (BIER) for BIER-incapable network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Nov 2020 | 12 Oct 2018 | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Multi-pitch ball grid array Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Nov 2020 | 28 Sep 2018 | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for consistency check in disaggregated dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) systems Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Nov 2020 | 13 Feb 2018 | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Local-bias forwarding of L2 multicast, unknown unicast, and broadcast traffic for an ethernet VPN Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Nov 2020 | 29 Mar 2017 | 17 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Optical cladding layer design Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 22 Aug 2019 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Enabling selection of a bypass path from available paths in an open shortest path first (OSPF) domain and an intermediate system to intermediate system (ISIS) domain Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 15 Feb 2019 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Secure remote bootstrapping of network device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 27 Dec 2018 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Network configuration service discovery Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 3 Dec 2018 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for correcting slow field-replaceable units in network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 27 Sep 2018 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Tracking and mitigation of an infected host device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 1 Apr 2018 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for increasing the cooling efficiency of cold plate devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 26 Mar 2018 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Identifying a file using metadata and determining a security classification of the file before completing receipt of the file Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Nov 2020 | 23 May 2017 | 10 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Reconfigurable optical router Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Nov 2020 | 3 May 2019 | 3 Nov 2020 |
| Utility: Loop-back packet for determining operational capabilities of border relay device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Oct 2020 | 24 Apr 2019 | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for improved cooling of computing components with heatsinks Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Oct 2020 | 3 Apr 2019 | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Enforcing policies in cloud domains with different application nomenclatures Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Oct 2020 | 23 Mar 2018 | 27 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Photonic input/output coupler alignment Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Oct 2020 | 1 Oct 2019 | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Selection of member ports in a link aggregation group Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Oct 2020 | 6 Mar 2019 | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Dissipating heat from an active region of an optical device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Oct 2020 | 24 Aug 2017 | 20 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: GRE tunneling with reduced packet encryption at intermediate routers using loose source routing Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 20 Sep 2019 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Using machine learning to monitor link quality and predict link faults Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 8 May 2019 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Faster fault-detection mechanism, for example using bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD), on network nodes and/or hosts multihomed using a link aggregation group (LAG) Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 30 Apr 2019 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for mitigating crosstalk in ball grid array devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 19 Mar 2019 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Control plane compression of next hop information Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 25 Jan 2019 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Photodetector with sequential asymmetric-width waveguides Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 27 Dec 2018 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Result reporting for authentication, authorization and accounting protocols Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Oct 2020 | 18 Dec 2015 | 13 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Detecting a transceiver using a noise optical signal Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 18 Dec 2019 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for applying firewall rules on packets in kernel space on network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 16 Oct 2019 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Automatic scaling of microservices applications Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 7 Feb 2019 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Memory tracking for malware detection Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 31 Aug 2018 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Extending subscriber services to roaming wireless user equipment Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 15 Jun 2018 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Systems and methods for debugging network stacks based on evidence collected from selective tracing Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 5 Jun 2018 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for applying firewall rules at dynamic offsets within packets in kernel space Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Oct 2020 | 6 Oct 2017 | 6 Oct 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for dissipating heat emitted by individual communication modules via ganged heat exchangers Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Sep 2020 | 21 Dec 2018 | 29 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Adaptive load-balancing over a multi-point logical interface Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Sep 2020 | 13 Mar 2018 | 22 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Automated generation of a network service design Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Sep 2020 | 17 May 2016 | 22 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Method and procedure for loop detection in multi-chassis link aggregation group (MCLAG) deployment within a communications system Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Sep 2020 | 22 Feb 2019 | 15 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Scalable port range management for security policies Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Sep 2020 | 29 Jun 2018 | 15 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Virtualization infrastructure underlay network performance measurement and monitoring Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Sep 2020 | 13 Jun 2018 | 15 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Verifying an operating system during a boot process using a loader Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Sep 2020 | 28 Dec 2017 | 15 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Data center architecture utilizing optical switches Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Sep 2020 | 3 Apr 2020 | 8 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Route signaling driven service management Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Sep 2020 | 29 Mar 2019 | 8 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for discovering network paths Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Sep 2020 | 4 Dec 2018 | 8 Sep 2020 |
| Utility: Reducing traffic loss during link failure in an ethernet virtual private network multihoming topology Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Sep 2020 | 13 Nov 2018 | 8 Sep 2020 |
