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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Big Switch Networks, Inc.

USPTO Granted Patents = 39

% Expired Patents = 10.3

EPO Patents = 12

Trademarks = 2

Forward Citations = 431

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53 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (17 out of 17 patents)

Robert Wesley Sherwood (13 out of 14 patents)

Shudong Zhou (10 out of 28 patents)

4. Mandeep Singh Dhami (10 out of 11 patents)

5. Robert Edward Adams (10 out of 15 patents)

6. Kanzhe Jiang (8 out of 13 patents)

7. Guido Appenzeller (8 out of 42 patents)

8. Gregor Maier (7 out of 7 patents)

9. Sandip K Shah (6 out of 42 patents)

10. Sudeep Modi (6 out of 11 patents)

11. Rajneesh Bajpai (5 out of 14 patents)

12. Mei Yang (5 out of 6 patents)

13. Daniel Talayco (4 out of 35 patents)

14. Robert K Vaterlaus (4 out of 7 patents)

15. R Kyle Forster (4 out of 4 patents)

Core Competencies:

Network Flow Information

Monitoring Fabric

Multicast Traffic

Traffic Monitoring

Link Aggregation

Network Address Translation

Network Topologies

Service Insertion

Network Upgrades

Virtual Switches

Traffic Forwarding

Network Protocol

39 patents: Sort by Forward Citations

1. 11115346 - Systems and methods for generating network flow information (2021-09-07),

2. 10979291 - Systems and methods to build a monitoring fabric (2021-04-13),

3. 10873476 - Networks with multiple tiers of switches (2020-12-22),

4. 10862933 - Systems and methods to manage multicast traffic (2020-12-08),

5. 10841242 - Systems and methods to scale a network monitoring fabric (2020-11-17),

6. 10419421 - Systems and methods to securely construct a network fabric (2019-09-17),

7. 10419327 - Systems and methods for controlling switches to record network packets using a traffic monitoring network (2019-09-17),

8. 10382392 - Systems and methods for network address translation (2019-08-13),

9. 10291533 - Systems and methods for network traffic monitoring (2019-05-14),

10. 10270645 - Systems and methods for handling link aggregation failover with a controller (2019-04-23),

11. 10264040 - Systems and methods to manage multicast traffic (2019-04-16),

12. 10250529 - Systems and methods for performing logical network forwarding using a controller (2019-04-02),

13. 10142160 - System and methods for managing network hardware address requests with a controller (2018-11-27),

14. 10097413 - Building a hyper-scale monitoring fabric (2018-10-09),

15. 10043002 - Optimization of service in-line chain traffic (2018-08-07),

Company Overview

Big Switch Networks, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. The company focuses on providing innovative network management and monitoring tools that enhance the performance and efficiency of data center and cloud environments. By leveraging open networking principles, Big Switch aims to transform traditional networking architectures, enabling organizations to achieve greater agility and scalability in their IT operations.

Profile summary synthesized from public USPTO records and patent filings.

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USPTO Data Jan 1 1976 - Oct 20 2026

39 Patents

#90 in Santa Clara, CA

#2,094 in California

#8,830 in US

#17,465 in the World

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Big Switch Networks, Inc.

Forward Citations = 431

53 inventors:

Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (17 out of 17 patents)

Robert Wesley Sherwood (13 out of 14 patents)

Shudong Zhou (10 out of 28 patents)

4. Mandeep Singh Dhami (10 out of 11 patents)

5. Robert Edward Adams (10 out of 15 patents)

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Company Patent Portfolio: Big Switch Networks, Inc.. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/company/big-switch-networks

Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile

Data Sources: USPTO Patent Grant XML, Patent Center, EPO & CIPO • Normalized by IDiyas Innovation Graph. Methodology & provenance architecturePlease report any incorrect information to [email protected]

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