| Utility: Network as a service using virtual nodes Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 2 Feb 2021 | 25 Sep 2018 | 2 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and devices for blocking, detecting, and/or preventing malicious traffic Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 2 Feb 2021 | 2 Jul 2018 | 2 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: Targeted selection of cascade ports Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 2 Feb 2021 | 23 Mar 2018 | 2 Feb 2021 |
| Utility: OPTICAL CLADDING LAYER DESIGN Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 28 Jan 2021 | 7 Oct 2020 | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: PHOTODETECTOR WITH SEQUENTIAL ASYMMETRIC-WIDTH WAVEGUIDES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 28 Jan 2021 | 25 Sep 2020 | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: USING AND PROCESSING PER SLICE SEGMENT IDENTIFIERS IN A NETWORK EMPLOYING SEGMENT ROUTING Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 28 Jan 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: GUARANTEED BANDWIDTH FOR SEGMENT ROUTED (SR) PATHS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 28 Jan 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: INTENT AWARE CONTEXTUAL DEVICE CONFIGURATION BACKUP AND RESTORE Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 28 Jan 2021 | 26 Jul 2019 | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: VALIDATION OF A USER-DEFINED CABLING PLAN FOR A COMPUTER NETWORK BASED ON A PHYSICAL CABLING TOPOLOGY Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 28 Jan 2021 | 23 Jul 2019 | 28 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Systems and method for replaying and debugging live states of network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 26 Jan 2021 | 19 Jul 2019 | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for optical communications via pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) in dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) systems Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 26 Jan 2021 | 28 Jun 2019 | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for improving the efficiency of heatsinks Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 26 Jan 2021 | 21 May 2018 | 26 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ROUTER Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 21 Jan 2021 | 7 Oct 2020 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: DISSIPATING HEAT FROM AN ACTIVE REGION OF AN OPTICAL DEVICE Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 21 Jan 2021 | 25 Sep 2020 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: AUTOMATED SELECTION OF SOFTWARE IMAGES FOR NETWORK DEVICES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 21 Jan 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FLOW-LEVEL SWITCHOVER OF VIDEO STREAMS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 21 Jan 2021 | 19 Jul 2019 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR REPLAYING AND DEBUGGING LIVE STATES OF NETWORK DEVICES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 21 Jan 2021 | 19 Jul 2019 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: MULTICAST GROUP MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 21 Jan 2021 | 17 Jul 2019 | 21 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Programmable configlets through opaque intents in graph based intent controllers Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 19 Jan 2021 | 26 Aug 2019 | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Supporting concurrency for graph-based high level configuration models Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 19 Jan 2021 | 29 Mar 2019 | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Service chaining among devices of interconnected topology Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 19 Jan 2021 | 28 Dec 2018 | 19 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: MEMORY TRACKING FOR MALWARE DETECTION Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 14 Jan 2021 | 29 Sep 2020 | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: ENFORCING POLICIES IN CLOUD DOMAINS WITH DIFFERENT APPLICATION NOMENCLATURES Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 14 Jan 2021 | 25 Sep 2020 | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: PER PATH AND PER LINK TRAFFIC ACCOUNTING Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 14 Jan 2021 | 31 Jul 2020 | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: RESILIENT MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING (MPLS) RINGS USING SEGMENT ROUTING Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 14 Jan 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 14 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Supporting compilation and extensibility on unified graph-based intent models Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 12 Jan 2021 | 21 Feb 2019 | 12 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERLAY NETWORK PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 7 Jan 2021 | 14 Sep 2020 | 7 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Building a label sequence in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) labeled network layer reachability information (NLRI) on next hop (NH) attribute change Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Intent-based, network-aware network device software-upgrade scheduling Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 16 May 2019 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Utilizing constraints to determine optimized network plans and to implement an optimized network plan Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 15 Mar 2019 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Dynamically providing traffic via various packet forwarding techniques Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 19 Nov 2018 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Determining synchronization of filter rules (e.g., on iptable filter tables on Linux kernal) across firewall filter application restarts Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 19 Oct 2018 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Conserving memory resources of a provider edge device in an ethernet tree Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 14 Sep 2018 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Enforcing threat policy actions based on network addresses of host threats Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 29 Jun 2018 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Packet fragment forwarding without reassembly Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 18 May 2018 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Symmetric path/link over LAG interface using LLDP for time synchronization between two nodes using PTP Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 17 May 2018 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Multicasting within distributed control plane of a switch Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 31 Oct 2017 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: Communicating state information in distributed operating systems Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 5 Jan 2021 | 29 Jun 2017 | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Utility: METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING,TRANSMITTING AND/OR USING BEACONS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 31 Dec 2020 | 10 Sep 2020 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: MANAGING MULTIPLE SEMANTIC VERSIONS OF DEVICE CONFIGURATION SCHEMAS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 31 Dec 2020 | 28 Jun 2019 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: GRE TUNNELING WITH REDUCED PACKET ENCRYPTION AT INTERMEDIATE ROUTERS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 31 Dec 2020 | 28 Jun 2019 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Design: Display screen with animated graphical user interface Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 8 Jun 2020 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Provisioning QOS behavior on tunnel endpoints Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 29 Mar 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Cloud network having multiple protocols using virtualization overlays across physical and virtualized workloads Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 26 Dec 2018 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Customer-side and provider-side translation of Internet Protocol addresses without pre-shared prefixes Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 16 Oct 2018 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: CLASS-BASED TRAFFIC ENGINEERING IN AN IP NETWORK Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 30 Sep 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: SIGNALING IP PATH TUNNELS FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 30 Sep 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: PROGRAMMABLE CONFIGLETS THROUGH OPAQUE INTENTS IN GRAPH BASED INTENT CONTROLLERS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 26 Aug 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: CONTROLLING ACCESS TO MICROSERVICES WITHIN A MULTI-TENANCY FRAMEWORK Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 20 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL METADATA TAG SETS TO DETERMINE RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 18 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
