Stephen Melvin, Ph.D.
melvin@zytek.com
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley
- More than 25 years experience in computer engineering
- Extensive experience in the field of intellectual property licensing and litigation
- USPTO Registered Patent Agent
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Zytek Communications Corporation
Dr. Melvin is the founder and CEO of Zytek Communications Corporation
(formerly Zytek, Inc.), which provides consulting services for design, implementation and testing of
embedded systems, as well as patent prosecution and strategic intellectual property consulting.
O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
Dr. Melvin was previously a Patent Agent and Technical Advisor in the San Francisco office
of O'Melveny & Myers, where he assisted in a broad
range of intellectual property cases, including patent, copyright and trade secret
litigation. Dr. Melvin also assisted clients in the
preparation and prosecution of patents in many different areas of technology.
FlowStorm, Inc.
Dr. Melvin is a founder of FlowStorm, Inc.
and was the Chief Architect and Director of RTL Development.
FlowStorm developed a massively multithreaded packet processor for
high performance stateful flow processing.
Stateful processing of network traffic requires managing large amounts of memory at high-speed, a task not
easily accomplished with current hardware, and is a fundamental requirement for emerging networking
applications and services such as stateful firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and quality of service
enforcement platforms.
Clearwater Networks
Previous to starting FlowStorm, Dr. Melvin was a Senior Architect at Clearwater Networks
(formerly XStream Logic, Inc.), where he was responsible for the architecture and microarchitecture of
the processing engine of Clearwater's innovative multi-threaded network processor (CNP810SP). The Clearwater processor
incorporated a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) core allowing simultaneous execution of eight
independent threads with eight ALUs and two ports to memory.
Consulting
- Dr. Melvin has wide ranging independent consulting experience, including work in advanced
microprocessor architecture, network security, Internet related software and forensic disk analysis.
- Dr. Melvin has extensive experience in the intellectual property field,
acting as a court-appointed expert, a testifying expert and a consulting expert in
numerous legal cases involving patents, copyrights and trade secret issues.
Selected Litigation Consulting Cases
PUBLICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Registered Patent Agent
before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (registration number 50,467).
Co-chaired the 29th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro-29), held
in Paris in December of 1996.
Previously a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked with
the HPS Research Group.
Professional Society Memberships: