| Utility: PRIORITIZED FORMATION OF BGP SESSIONS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 Mar 2021 | 23 Nov 2020 | 11 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: TRACKING HOST THREATS IN A NETWORK AND ENFORCING THREAT POLICY ACTIONS FOR THE HOST THREATS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 Mar 2021 | 18 Nov 2020 | 11 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for mitigating warpage of integrated circuits during reflow processes Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Mar 2021 | 29 Aug 2019 | 9 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for dynamic compensation of heatsink-clamping mechanisms Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Mar 2021 | 30 Jul 2019 | 9 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: Auto-discovery and provisioning of IP fabric underlay networks for data centers Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Mar 2021 | 29 Mar 2019 | 9 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: Rules-based network security policy modification Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Mar 2021 | 29 Jun 2017 | 9 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN ACCESS POINT SUPPORTING MULTIPLE COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Mar 2021 | 13 Nov 2020 | 4 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: MULTIPLE NETWORKS FOR VIRTUAL EXECUTION ELEMENTS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Mar 2021 | 11 Nov 2020 | 4 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER WITH MULTIPLE SWITCH STATE CONFIGURATIONS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Mar 2021 | 11 Nov 2020 | 4 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: LAWFULLY INTERCEPTING TRAFFIC FOR ANALYSIS BASED ON AN APPLICATION IDENTIFIER OR A UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRAFFIC Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Mar 2021 | 29 Aug 2019 | 4 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: FAST ROUTING CONVERGENCE FOR BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCL (BGP) SYSTEMS INCLUDING ONE OR MORE ROUTE REFLECTORS (RRs) Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Mar 2021 | 29 Aug 2019 | 4 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: PROVIDING PHYSICAL HOST STATE INFORMATION TO VIRTUAL MACHINES DEPLOYED ON THE PHYSICAL HOST Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Mar 2021 | 28 Aug 2019 | 4 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: Automation of maintenance mode operations for network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 2 Mar 2021 | 20 May 2019 | 2 Mar 2021 |
| Utility: CONFIGURING SERVICE LOAD BALANCERS WITH SPECIFIED BACKEND VIRTUAL NETWORKS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 25 Feb 2021 | 10 Nov 2020 | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: MULTI-PITCH BALL GRID ARRAY Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 25 Feb 2021 | 4 Nov 2020 | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: VENDOR AGNOSTIC PROFILE-BASED MODELING OF SERVICE ACCESS ENDPOINTS IN A MULTITENANT ENVIRONMENT Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 25 Feb 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for adaptively detecting signal degradation in an optical communication system using the pre-forward error correction bit error rate Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 23 Feb 2021 | 25 Mar 2020 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Virtualized network function descriptors for virtualized network function configuration Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 23 Feb 2021 | 4 Nov 2019 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Duplicate address detection for global IP address or range of link local IP addresses Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 23 Feb 2021 | 27 Dec 2018 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for flow-controllable multi-staged queues Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 23 Feb 2021 | 22 Jan 2018 | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DATA FLOW PATH IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 18 Feb 2021 | 7 Jul 2020 | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: UNDERLAY-OVERLAY CORRELATION Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 18 Feb 2021 | 15 Aug 2019 | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: LINK STATE ROUTING PROTOCOL ADJACENCY STATE MACHINE Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 18 Feb 2021 | 12 Aug 2019 | 18 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Underlay-overlay correlation Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 15 Aug 2019 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for seamless and reversible in-service software upgrades Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 25 May 2019 | 16 Feb 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: 16 Feb 2021 | 29 Mar 2019 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Planning and managing network probes using centralized controller Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 15 Mar 2019 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for probing the status of unreachable virtual interfaces partitioned on remote physical interfaces Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 28 Jan 2019 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Node protection for bum traffic for multi-homed node failure Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 12 Dec 2018 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Generating an application-based proxy auto configuration Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 28 Nov 2018 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Reduced configuration for multi-stage network fabrics Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 28 Sep 2018 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Deterministic distribution of rekeying procedures for a scaling virtual private network (VPN) Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 13 Feb 2018 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for enabling network management systems to query and obtain related objects stored on network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 16 Feb 2021 | 7 Apr 2017 | 16 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: METHOD FOR CONVEYING AP ERROR CODES OVER BLE ADVERTISEMENTS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 Feb 2021 | 27 Oct 2020 | 11 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR REPLAYING AND DEBUGGING LIVE STATES OF NETWORK DEVICES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 Feb 2021 | 22 Oct 2020 | 11 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONSISTENCY CHECK FOR DISAGGREGATED DENSE WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (DWDM) SYSTEMS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 11 Feb 2021 | 13 Oct 2020 | 11 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for improving the skew tolerance of a coherent optical transponder in an optical communication system Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 12 Dec 2019 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Facilitating communication between network devices of a virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) group Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 21 May 2019 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Utilizing a centralized controller for traffic engineering segment routing inter-autonomous systems Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 29 Mar 2019 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Minimizing or reducing traffic loss when an external border gateway protocol (eBGP) peer goes down Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 28 Feb 2019 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Time to live (TTL) handing for segment routing ping/traceroute Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 17 Jan 2019 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: System and method for user customization and automation of operations on a software-defined network Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 21 Dec 2018 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Sharing matching filters among interfaces of a network device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 29 Dec 2017 | 9 Feb 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: 9 Feb 2021 | 12 Jul 2017 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Managing and troubleshooting changes in device configurations on a network node Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 9 Feb 2021 | 16 Jan 2015 | 9 Feb 2021 |
| 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: 4 Feb 2021 | 20 Oct 2020 | 4 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: SELECTION OF MEMBER PORTS IN A LINK AGGREGATION GROUP Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Feb 2021 | 19 Oct 2020 | 4 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: AUTOMATIC SCALING OF MICROSERVICES APPLICATIONS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 4 Feb 2021 | 30 Sep 2020 | 4 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Smooth waveguide structures and manufacturing methods Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 2 Feb 2021 | 19 Mar 2020 | 2 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Scalable visualization of health data for network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 2 Feb 2021 | 22 Oct 2018 | 2 Feb 2021 |
