| Utility: CONTROLLING PATHS IN A NETWORK VIA A CENTRALIZED CONTROLLER OR NETWORK DEVICES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Jun 2021 | 26 Feb 2021 | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: SOURCE-ACTIVE COMMUNITY FOR IMPROVED MULTICASTING Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Jun 2021 | 20 Dec 2019 | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: TIME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR ENCRYPTED TRAFFIC IN A COMPUTER NETWORK Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Jun 2021 | 20 Dec 2019 | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: SEQUENCE NUMBER CHECKSUM FOR LINK STATE PROTOCOLS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Jun 2021 | 19 Dec 2019 | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, systems, and methods for optical channel management Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Jun 2021 | 31 Mar 2020 | 22 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: USER CUSTOMIZATION AND AUTOMATION OF OPERATIONS ON A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Jun 2021 | 5 Feb 2021 | 17 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Orthogonal cross-connecting of printed circuit boards without a midplane board Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Jun 2021 | 26 Oct 2018 | 15 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: MONITORING WIRELESS ACCESS POINT EVENTS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Jun 2021 | 23 Feb 2021 | 10 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: COMBINED INPUT AND OUTPUT QUEUE FOR PACKET FORWARDING IN NETWORK DEVICES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Jun 2021 | 10 Dec 2019 | 10 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF ROUTE REFLECTION PEERING END-POINTS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 10 Jun 2021 | 5 Dec 2019 | 10 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Per path and per link traffic accounting Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 31 Jul 2020 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Efficient unicast signaling in a precision time protocol enabled packet network Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 18 Jul 2019 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Multicast group membership management Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 17 Jul 2019 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: GRE tunneling with reduced packet encryption at intermediate routers Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 28 Jun 2019 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Signaling a planned off-lining, such as for maintenance, of a node or node component supporting a label switched path (LSP), and using such signaling Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 14 May 2019 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Providing predictable quality of service traffic steering Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 26 Apr 2019 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Layer 2 tunnel protocol ("L2TP") node processing optimization using a dedicated hello channel keepalive mechanism Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 31 Dec 2018 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Network monitoring based on distribution of false account credentials Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 6 Aug 2018 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Applying application-based policy rules using a programmable application cache Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 8 Jun 2021 | 2 Aug 2018 | 8 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: UNDERLAY-OVERLAY CORRELATION Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Jun 2021 | 12 Feb 2021 | 3 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING REAL-TIME AND/OR PREDICTIVE FAULT DETECTION Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Jun 2021 | 12 Feb 2021 | 3 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: CONFIGURATION FOR MULTI-STAGE NETWORK FABRICS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Jun 2021 | 12 Feb 2021 | 3 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: PLANNING AND MANAGING NETWORK PROBES USING CENTRALIZED CONTROLLER Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Jun 2021 | 11 Feb 2021 | 3 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: APPLICATION-BASED NETWORK SECURITY Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Jun 2021 | 29 Nov 2019 | 3 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Group load balancing for virtual router redundancy Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 1 Jun 2021 | 9 Mar 2020 | 1 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus related to a virtual multi-hop network topology emulated within a data center Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 1 Jun 2021 | 22 Nov 2019 | 1 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Path monitoring system (PMS) controller or ingress node based multiprotocal label switching (MPLS) ping and traceroute in inter- autonomous system (AS) segment routing (SR) networks Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 1 Jun 2021 | 4 May 2019 | 1 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: SCALABLE VISUALIZATION OF HEALTH DATA FOR NETWORK DEVICES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 May 2021 | 1 Feb 2021 | 27 May 2021 |
| Utility: REDUCED CROSSTALK PHOTONIC SWITCH Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 May 2021 | 28 Jan 2021 | 27 May 2021 |
| Utility: BUNDLING OF WIRED AND WIRELESS INTERFACES IN A REDUNDANT INTERFACE OF A HIGH-AVAILABILITY CLUSTER Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 May 2021 | 26 Nov 2019 | 27 May 2021 |
| Utility: Guarded mode boot up and/or recovery of a network device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 25 May 2021 | 10 May 2017 | 25 May 2021 |
| Utility: DESIGNING A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCB) TO DETECT SLIVERS OF CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL INCLUDED WITHIN VIAS OF THE PCB Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 May 2021 | 29 Jan 2021 | 20 May 2021 |
| Utility: GENERATING AN APPLICATION-BASED PROXY AUTO CONFIGURATION Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 May 2021 | 29 Jan 2021 | 20 May 2021 |
| Utility: UTILIZING A CENTRALIZED CONTROLLER FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SEGMENT ROUTING INTER-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 May 2021 | 22 Jan 2021 | 20 May 2021 |
| Utility: NETWORK MODEL AWARE DIAGNOSIS OF A NETWORK Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 May 2021 | 31 Dec 2019 | 20 May 2021 |
| Utility: DETERMINISTIC DISTRIBUTION OF REKEYING PROCEDURES FOR A SCALING VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 21 Jan 2021 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: SUPPORTING CONCURRENCY FOR GRAPH-BASED HIGH LEVEL CONFIGURATION MODELS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 15 Jan 2021 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: MULTI-PROTOCOL SERVICE CHAINING AMONG DEVICES OF INTERCONNECTED TOPOLOGY Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 29 Dec 2020 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: UTILIZING CONSTRAINTS TO DETERMINE OPTIMIZED NETWORK PLANS AND TO IMPLEMENT AN OPTIMIZED NETWORK PLAN Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 22 Dec 2020 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: SUPPORTING NEAR REAL TIME SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 16 Nov 2020 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: ANTI-SPOOF CHECK OF IPV4-IN-IPV6 FRAGMENTS WITHOUT REASSEMBLY Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 13 Nov 2019 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: CONTROLLING AN AGGREGATE NUMBER OF UNIQUE PIM JOINS IN ONE OR MORE PIM JOIN/PRUNE MESSAGES RECEIVED FROM A PIM NEIGHBOR Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 May 2021 | 7 Nov 2019 | 13 May 2021 |
| Utility: Scalable control plane for telemetry data collection within a distributed computing system Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 May 2021 | 30 Jun 2020 | 11 May 2021 |
| Utility: Transporting client timing information across a network Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 May 2021 | 31 Jan 2020 | 11 May 2021 |
| Utility: Satisfying service level agreement metrics for unknown applications Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 May 2021 | 14 Mar 2019 | 11 May 2021 |
| Utility: UTILIZING SEGMENT ROUTING DATA AND NETWORK DATA TO DETERMINE OPTIMIZED NETWORK PLANS AND TO IMPLEMENT AN OPTIMIZED NETWORK PLAN Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 May 2021 | 14 Jan 2021 | 6 May 2021 |
| Utility: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OFFLOADING IPFIX LOOKUP AND TRANSLATION OPERATIONS FROM OBSERVATION DOMAINS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 May 2021 | 4 Nov 2019 | 6 May 2021 |
| Utility: BULK DISCOVERY OF DEVICES BEHIND A NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION DEVICE Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 May 2021 | 31 Oct 2019 | 6 May 2021 |
| Utility: BULK DISCOVERY OF DEVICES BEHIND A NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION DEVICE Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 May 2021 | 31 Oct 2019 | 6 May 2021 |
| Utility: Intermediate frequency calibrated optical modulators Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 May 2021 | 25 Aug 2020 | 4 May 2021 |
