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3Com Technologies

43Patents
0Active
43Granted
35Portfolio score

Filing activity: Nov 7, 1990 → Oct 13, 1999

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6151323A Method of supporting unknown addresses in an interface for data transmission in an asynchronous transfer mode Electricity 1,008 Expired
US5987507A Multi-port communication network device including common buffer memory with threshold control of port packet counters Electricity 154 Expired
US6661787B1 Integrated data table in a network Electricity 118 Expired
US6470025B1 System for providing fair access for VLANs to a shared transmission medium Electricity 84 Expired
US5161192A Repeaters for secure local area networks Electricity 72 Expired
US6151627A Monitoring of a communication link utilizing history-based compression algorithms Electricity 60 Expired
US6667985B1 Communication switch including input bandwidth throttling to reduce output congestion Electricity 47 Expired
US6975627B1 Modification of tag fields in Ethernet data packets Electricity 46 Expired
US6370190B1 Data receiver including hybrid decision feedback equalizer Electricity 44 Expired
US6442162B1 Credit-based scheme for high performance communication between devices in a packet-based communication system Electricity 43 Expired
US6538994B1 Monitoring of connection between an ethernet hub and an end station Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US6425015B1 Stacked communication devices and method for port mirroring using modified protocol Electricity 40 Expired
US6236659A Network configuration Electricity 38 Expired
US6473400B1 Computation of traffic flow by scaling sample packet data Electricity 37 Expired
US6430192B1 Method for transmitting multimedia packet data using a contention-resolution process Electricity 33 Expired
US6580712B1 System for controlling look-ups in a data table in a network switch Electricity 32 Expired
US6172606A Network security Physics 30 Expired
US6330245A Hub system with ring arbitration Electricity 30 Expired
US6064305A Network security Electricity 29 Expired
US6389119B1 Dual-circuit telephony Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US6922410B1 Organization of databases in network switches for packet-based data communications networks Electricity 22 Expired
US6163541A Method for selecting virtual channels based on address priority in an asynchronous transfer mode device Electricity 21 Expired
US6504843B1 System and method for dynamically mapping a high speed link to a multiplicity of low speed trunked links Electricity 17 Expired
US6163545A System and method for data transfer across multiple clock domains Electricity 17 Expired
US6285674A Hybrid distributed broadcast and unknown server for emulated local area networks Electricity 15 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.