Innovation · Research

Patents & Intellectual Property.

Over two decades of engineering leadership at Cisco Systems and beyond, Faisal has authored a portfolio of U.S. patents spanning network forwarding architecture, quality-of-service systems, and distributed data processing, foundational work behind some of the internet’s core switching and routing infrastructure.

8

U.S. Patents Granted

2005 - 2014

Filing to Grant Span

Cisco

Network Engineering

Granted U.S. Patents.

Each entry links to the official patent document. Click through to read the full filing.

US 8,788,695 B2

Method and apparatus for session bandwidth estimation and rate control

Granted
August 2014
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US 8,655,986 B2

Data Path Processing

Granted
February 2014
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US 7,953,885 B1

Method and apparatus to apply aggregate ACL/QoS features using a redirect cause

Granted
May 2011
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US 7,839,843 B2

Distributed forwarding in virtual network devices

Granted
November 2010
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US 7,706,364 B2

Virtual Network Device Clusters

Granted
April 2010
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US 7,436,836 B2

Method and apparatus for detecting support for a protocol defining supplemental headers

Granted
October 2008
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US 7,292,569 B1

Distributed router forwarding architecture employing global translation indices

Granted
November 2007
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US 6,950,395 B1

Method and apparatus for a token bucket metering or policing system with a delayed filling scheme

Granted
September 2005
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