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BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS INC Patents: Expired

BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS INC Expired Patents

55 granted patents the USPTO lists as expired; the status gives the reason, newest filing first, as the USPTO Open Data Portal records them; the company is the first-named applicant. The application number opens the full record at Patent Center.

  • 2016-06-27: Application 15194349; Invention Diagnostic Port for Inter-Switch Link Testing in Electrical, Optical and Remote Loopback Modes; Applicant Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
  • 2016-04-28: Application 15141617; Invention TRANSPARENT HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR STATEFUL SERVICES; Applicant BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
  • 2015-10-29: Application 14926822; Invention REDUNDANCY FOR PORT EXTENDER CHAINS; Applicant Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
  • 2015-08-14: Application 14827042; Invention Network Congestion Management Systems and Methods; Applicant Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
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2016-06-2715194349Diagnostic Port for Inter-Switch Link Testing in Electrical, Optical and Remote Loopback ModesBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622018-06-129998215US20160308606A1
David Aaron Skirmont
Saumitra Buragohain
Balakrishna Wusirika
Badrinath Kollu
Kyuh Kim
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
LIU, LI
2016-04-2815141617TRANSPARENT HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR STATEFUL SERVICESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622018-07-1710025634US20160246650A1
Girish K. Goyal
Suresh Vobbilisetty
United States
United States
WOOD, WILLIAM C
2015-10-2914926822REDUNDANCY FOR PORT EXTENDER CHAINSBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622018-05-299984028US20160124884A1
Bipin Agarwal
Arijit Bhattacharyya
Chandra Konathala Poorna
Suresh Nulu
United States
United States
United States
United States
ZAMAN, FAISAL M
2015-08-1414827042Network Congestion Management Systems and MethodsBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622018-01-099866484US20150350086A1
Rodney N. Mullendore
Joseph L. White
United States
United States
CHAN, SAI MING
2015-08-1214824407FEDERATED MANAGEMENT OF INTELLIGENT SERVICE MODULESBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-05-239661085US20150350347A1
Joseph I. Chamdani
Gurumurthy D. Ramkumar
Bruce L. Younglove
Corey R. Hill
United States
United States
United States
United States
TANG, KIET G
2015-07-3114815487GLOBAL VLAN SERVICESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-01-109544219US20160036774A1
Chi Lung Chong
Ganesh D. Venkata
United States
United States
SONG, REBECCA E
2015-07-0614792166POWER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK OF INTERCONNECTED SWITCHESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622018-04-109942097US20160197784A1
Ram Kumar Gandhi
Shivalingayya Chikkamath
Mythilikanth Raman
India
India
United States
RANDHAWA, MANDISH K
2015-04-1714689728Packet Tracing through Control and Data Plane OperationsBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-02-219577905US20150222510A1
Nikunj Vaidya
Vardarajan Venkatesh
United States
United States
STEINER, STEPHEN NICHOLAS
2014-12-1914577785SPANNING-TREE BASED LOOP DETECTION FOR AN ETHERNET FABRIC SWITCHBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-05-249350564US20150117266A1
Tse Yu Lei
Ning Song
Vardarajan Venkatesh
Mythilikanth Raman
United States
United States
United States
United States
LEE, CHI HO A
2014-10-1414514253BIASING ACTIVE-STANDBY DETERMINATIONBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-04-119619349US20160103745A1
Bill Jianqiang Zhou
William R. Mahoney
United States
United States
CONTINO, PAUL F
2014-07-3114448796FLOATING DAUGHTER CARD SYSTEMBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-03-079591781US20150173193A1
Anthony Vanderveen
David Skirmont
Peter Doyle
United States
United States
United States
DINH, TUAN T
2014-07-1614332952Topology for Large Port Count SwitchBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-07-289094328US20140328351A1
Kreg A. Martin
David C. Banks
United States
United States
MARCELO, MELVIN C
2014-07-1514331864EJECTOR AND CABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-02-029253912US20150181743A1
David Skirmont
Dan Kilkenny
Eric Farnholtz
Anthony Vanderveen
Peter Doyle
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
THAKER, NIDHI VIVEK
2014-07-0114320758SELECTIVE NETWORK MERGINGBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-11-109184997US20140313934A1
Daniel Ji Yong Park Chung
Hung Quoc Nguyen
United States
United States
DECKER, CASSANDRA L
2014-06-2614315800Diagnostic Port for Inter-Switch Link Testing in Electrical, Optical and Remote Loopback ModesBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-07-269401760US20140308032A1
David Aaron Skirmont
Saumitra Buragohain
Balakrishna Wusirika
Badrinath Kollu
Kyuh Kim
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
LIU, LI
2014-05-0814273414EFFICIENT TRILL FORWARDINGBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-08-189112817US20140241364A1
Mythilikanth Raman
Mary Manohar
Phanidhar Koganti
Suresh Vobbilisetty
Shunjia Yu
Pankaj Srivastava
United States
United States
India
United States
United States
United States
CHO, HONG SOL
2014-04-0814248247REDUNDANCY SUPPORT FOR NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (NAT)Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-06-289379968US20140219076A1
Sridhar J. Devarapalli
United States
NGUYEN, TOAN D
2014-03-1214206946FCoE VN_Port VirtualizerBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-07-199397958US20140301402A1
Glenn Wenig
Howard Johnson
Daniel Chung
Dave Peterson
United States
United States
United States
United States
RENNER, BRANDON M
2014-03-1214206879FCoE VN_Port to FC N_Port Operations in an Ethernet FabricBrocade Communications Systems, IncPatent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-06-289379976US20140269745A1
Howard Johnson
Daniel Chung
Glenn Wenig
Dave Peterson
United States
United States
United States
United States
RENNER, BRANDON M
2014-02-0714175942EFFICIENT MULTICAST TOPOLOGY CONSTRUCTION IN A ROUTED NETWORKBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-07-189712334US20140348022A1
Nitin Jain
United States
DEWAN, SANJAY K
2014-01-2114160177PLUG-IN MODULE BOTTOM RAIL SYSTEM AND METHODBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-03-299297496US20150102191A1
Michael K. T. Lee
United States
CHAPMAN, JEANETTE E
2014-01-1314154106MAC ADDRESS SYNCHRONIZATION IN A FABRIC SWITCHBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-08-099413691US20140198801A1
Vardarajan Venkatesh
United States
HAILE, AWET A
2014-01-0914151693PROTECTION SWITCHING OVER A VIRTUAL LINK AGGREGATIONBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-05-249350680US20140198636A1
Prabu Thayalan
Ganesh D. Venkata
India
United States
BOAKYE, ALEXANDER O
2013-12-1314106414ELECTRONIC COMPONENT COOLING SYSTEM AND METHODBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-02-029253919US20150124405A1
Michael K. T. Lee
United States
AHMAD, YAHYA ALSAYED
2013-11-1814082546PROVISIONING SINGLE OR MULTISTAGE NETWORKS USING ETHERNET SERVICE INSTANCES (ESIs)Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-10-209166818US20140233423A1
Pankaj K. Jha
Vivek Agarwal
Mitri Halabi
Ananda Rajagopal
Ram Dular Singh
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
ZHAO, WEI
2013-10-2314060841SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK ROUTE REDUNDANCY ACROSS LAYER 2 DEVICESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-09-209450893US20140050225A1
Andrew Tai-Chin Kuo
Ivy Pei-Shan Hsu
Jordi Moncada-Elias
Rajkumar Jalan
Gurudeep Kamat
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
PEZZLO, JOHN
2013-10-1814057680TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENTLY UPDATING ROUTING INFORMATION UPON SHORTEST PATH TREE COMPUTATIONBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-08-119106512US20140044013A1
Vamsi Punati
Hasnain Karampurwala
United States
United States
ZHAO, WEI
2013-10-1114052393METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING BANDWIDTH-CONSUMING FRAME FLOWS IN A NETWORKBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-06-099054972US20140036717A1
Amit Kanda
Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran
United States
United States
LY, ANH VU H
2013-09-2714040146MANAGEABILITY TOOLS FOR LOSSLESS NETWORKSBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622014-07-298792354US20140029466A1
Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran
Rishi Sinha
United States
United States
LEE, CHI HO A
2013-09-0514018741MAC FLUSH OPTIMIZATIONS FOR ETHERNET RINGSBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622017-01-319559863US20140064060A1
Sandeep Kulambi
India
VAN, JENKEY
2013-08-1613969214STORAGE OF KEYID IN CUSTOMER DATA AREABrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-04-269324123US20140164247A1
Lintu Thomas
United States
NGUY, CHI D
2013-07-3013954867MULTIPLE RING IDENTIFICATION AND CONFIGURATION PROTOCOLBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-05-109338060US20150036546A1
Mritiyunjay Kumar Singh
India
MYERS, ERIC A
2013-07-3013954861MULTIPLE RING IDENTIFICATION AND CONFIGURATION PROTOCOLBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-09-299148346US20150036544A1
Mritiyunjay Kumar Singh
India
ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H
2013-07-2513950547SCALABLE AND EFFICIENT FLOW-AWARE PACKET DISTRIBUTIONBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-09-159137156US20140321462A1
Mani Kancherla
Sriniwas Polavarapu
United States
United States
VAN, JENKEY
2013-06-2813930771MANAGEABILITY TOOLS FOR LOSSLESS NETWORKSBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622014-07-018767561US20130286858A1
Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran
Rishi Sinha
Michael Gee
United States
United States
United States
LEE, CHI HO A
2013-06-2413925723SYNCHRONIZING MULTICAST INFORMATION FOR LINECARDSBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-07-289094221US20140029613A1
Mehul Dholakia
Wing-Keung Adam Yeung
Ajeer S. Pudiyapura
United States
United States
United States
HSU, ALPUS
2013-06-2413925670GLOBAL SERVER LOAD BALANCINGBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-10-259479574US20140040478A1
Ivy Pei-Shan Hsu
David Chun-Ying Cheung
Rajkumar Ramniranjan Jalan
United States
United States
United States
SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI
2013-06-0613911464TILTED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD INSTALLATIONBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-03-089282671US20130265706A1
David A. Skirmont
Daniel K. Kilkenny
United States
United States
SAWYER, STEVEN T
2013-05-0813889637METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINK AGGREGATION ACROSS MULTIPLE SWITCHESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-09-229143445US20130308649A1
Joseph Juh-En Cheng
Wing Cheung
John Michael Terry
Suresh Vobbilisetty
Surya P. Varanasi
Parviz Ghalambor
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
HUANG, WEIBIN
2013-03-1413830286NETWORK MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICSBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-12-159213590US20140006871A1
Subramanian Lakshmanan
Vineet M. Abraham
Sathish Gnanasekaran
Michael Gee
United States
United States
United States
United States
GUYTON, PHILIP A
2013-03-1413827863Virtual Router Redundancy For Server VirtualizationBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-07-289094334US20130205044A1
Sheng-Yih Wang
Lok Yan Hui
Sanjay Khanna
Ivy Pei-Shan Hsu
United States
United States
United States
United States
ZHAO, WEI
2013-03-1213797169ALGORITHM FOR LONG-LIVED LARGE FLOW IDENTIFICATIONBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-04-059306794US20140126393A1
Ram Kirshnan
John Terry
United States
United States
THAI, CAMQUYEN
2013-03-0813791367PERVASIVE NETWORK DIAGNOSTICS USING HBASBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-06-029049139US20140010092A1
Varghese Kallarackal
Sathish Kumar Gnanasekaran
Badrinath Kollu
United States
United States
United States
CHAN, SAI MING
2013-03-0713789519DIAGNOSTIC PORT FOR INTER-SWITCH AND NODE LINK TESTING IN ELECTRICAL, OPTICAL AND REMOTE LOOPBACK MODESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622018-05-089967025US20130266307A1
Meenakshi Garg
Venugopal Tummala
Gin Man Cheung
Raymond Grigsby
Balakrishna Wusirika
India
India
United States
United States
United States
LIU, LI
2013-03-0613786626Packet Tracing through Control and Data Plane Operations using SNMP Trap CommandsBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-04-219014013US20130242759A1
Muhammad Durrani
Varma Bhupatiraju
Matt Eclavea
Sadashiv Kudlamath
Michael Chen
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
STEINER, STEPHEN NICHOLAS
2013-03-0613786604Packet Tracing through Control and Data Plane OperationsBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-07-219088496US20130242758A1
Nikunj Vaidya
Vardarajan Venkatesh
United States
United States
STEINER, STEPHEN NICHOLAS
2013-02-0713762077Interrupt ModerationBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622014-03-188677042US20130151744A1
Somesh Gupta
Venkatesh Nagapudi
United States
United States
AUVE, GLENN ALLEN
2013-02-0413758902METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING ROUTING DOMAIN TO NON-ROUTING END STATIONSBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-03-318995444US20130148491A1
Pankaj K. Jha
Mitri Halabi
United States
United States
PERSAUD, AMARNAUTH G
2013-01-2213747348TRANSPARENT HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR STATEFUL SERVICESBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-05-179342348US20130191831A1
Girish K. Goyal
Suresh Vobbilisetty
United States
United States
WOOD, WILLIAM C
2013-01-1513742207LINK AGGREGATION IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKSBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-03-318995272US20130194914A1
Vivek Agarwal
Arvindsrinivasan Lakshminarasimhan
Kashyap Tavarekere Ananthapadmanabha
United States
United States
United States
ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H
2012-11-1613679900USER SELECTABLE MULTIPLE PROTOCOL NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICEBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-08-049100349US20130315256A1
Venkata Pramod Balakavi
Venky Nagapudi
Sathseel Altekar
Surya Prakash Varanasi
Li Zhao
Yash V. Bansal
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
MATTIS, JASON E
2012-11-1513678032Transmission Control Protocol Window Size Adjustment for Out-of-Order Protocol Data Unit RemovalBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-02-239270609US20130315260A1
Siva Adiraju
Ryan Hegland
Isaac Larson
Andy Dooley
United States
United States
United States
United States
CHEN, PETER
2012-11-1513677929LOSSLESS CONNECTION FAILOVER FOR SINGLE DEVICESBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622015-08-259118594US20130315253A1
Ryan Hegland
Amr Sabaa
Siva Adiraju
United States
United States
United States
HENSON, JAMAAL R
2012-11-1513677922Lossless Connection Failover for Mirrored DevicesBROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622016-05-319357038US20130332573A1
Ryan Hegland
Amr Sabaa
Siva Adiraju
United States
United States
United States
NGUYEN, DUSTIN
2012-11-1413676804MANAGING NETWORK SECURITYBrocade Communications Systems, Inc.Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.3622014-02-118650295US20130318617A1
Animesh CHATURVEDI
Marc LAVINE
Manan SHAH
Ron LAU
United States
United States
United States
United States
CHAMBERS, MICHAEL A