| Utility: Support for multiple virtual networks over an underlay network topology Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 3 Aug 2021 | 26 Apr 2019 | 3 Aug 2021 |
| Utility: Business policy management for self-driving network Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 26 Mar 2020 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Scalable and robust network management for cloud-based NAT environments Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 27 Feb 2020 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for cooling multi-chip modules via clustered fluid-cooled plates Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 4 Jan 2020 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus relating to the use of real and/or virtual beacons Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 11 Dec 2019 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for improving the efficiency of link-failure detection Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 21 Aug 2019 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Deployment of microservices-based network controller Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 27 Sep 2018 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Adaptive capacity management for network licensing Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 17 Jul 2017 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Hierarchical naming scheme for state propagation within network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 27 Jul 2021 | 30 Jun 2016 | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Optical transceiver loopback eye scans Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 22 Jun 2020 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Optical receiver with an optically compensated amplifier control loop Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 29 May 2020 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for centralized operational management of heterogenous network devices through software-based node unification Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 5 May 2020 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Network dashboard with multifaceted utilization visualizations Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 24 Jan 2020 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Scaling border gateway protocol services Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 23 Dec 2019 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Serverless segment routing (SR)-label distribution protocol (LDP) stitching Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 27 Nov 2019 | 20 Jul 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: 20 Jul 2021 | 7 Nov 2019 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Guaranteed bandwidth for segment routed (SR) paths Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 30 Sep 2019 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, system, and method for collecting network statistics information Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 8 Aug 2019 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Dynamically mapping hash indices to member interfaces Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 19 Mar 2019 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Removing anomalies from security policies of a network security device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 18 Mar 2019 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Dynamic provisioning of user groups within computer networks based on user attributes Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 28 Dec 2018 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Selective load balancing for spraying over fabric paths Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 22 Oct 2018 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Optimized multicast forwarding with a cache Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 16 Oct 2018 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Micro-level monitoring, visibility and control of shared resources internal to a processor of a host machine for a virtual environment Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 30 Oct 2017 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Dynamic implementation of a security rule Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 20 Jul 2021 | 29 Jun 2017 | 20 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Apparatus, device, and method for fragmenting packets into segments that comply with the maximum transmission unit of egress interfaces Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Jul 2021 | 21 Jan 2020 | 13 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Control plane-based EVPN optimized inter-subnet multicast (OISM) forwarding Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 13 Jul 2021 | 20 Sep 2019 | 13 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Aliasing behavior for traffic to multihomed sites in ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) networks Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 7 Mar 2020 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Controlling protocol independent multicast (PIM) join/prune messages from a downstream PIM neighbor using a PIM join/prune response(s) from an upstream PIM neighbor Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 13 Feb 2020 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Loop avoidance and egress link protection with ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) fast reroute (FRR) Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 30 Jan 2020 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Synchronizing multicast router capability towards ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) multi-homed protocol independent multicast (PIM) device Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 26 Sep 2019 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Ping/traceroute for static label switched paths (LSPs) and static segment routing traffic engineering (SRTE) tunnels Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 20 Sep 2019 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Generating cryptographic random data from raw random data Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 17 May 2019 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Automated configuration and data collection during modeling of network devices Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 22 Mar 2018 | 6 Jul 2021 |
| Utility: Filtering data using malicious reference information Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 6 Jul 2021 | 6 Oct 2017 | 6 Jul 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: 29 Jun 2021 | 29 Aug 2019 | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Defining non-forwarding adjacencies in bipartite networks, such as Clos newtorks, having a level 2 backbone and level 1 nodes Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Jun 2021 | 28 Jun 2019 | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Preventing traffic outages during address resolution protocol (ARP) storms Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Jun 2021 | 23 May 2019 | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Thermal management with variable conductance heat pipe Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Jun 2021 | 29 Jun 2018 | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Utility: Methods and apparatus for performing access and/or forwarding control in wireless networks such as WLANS Filling date: 6 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Jun 2021 | 16 Aug 2017 | 29 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: 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: 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 |
