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NEC USA, Inc.

99Patents
0Active
99Granted
39Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jun 26, 1992 → Jul 29, 2002

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6175829A Method and apparatus for facilitating query reformulation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 399 Expired
US5638371A Multiservices medium access control protocol for wireless ATM system Electricity 369 Expired
US5903559A Method for internet protocol switching over fast ATM cell transport Electricity 366 Expired
US5930783A Semantic and cognition based image retrieval Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 259 Expired
US5359362A Videoconference system using a virtual camera image Electricity 240 Expired
US5684791A Data link control protocols for wireless ATM access channels Electricity 231 Expired
US6415282B1 Method and apparatus for query refinement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 214 Expired
US6480843B2 Supporting web-query expansion efficiently using multi-granularity indexing and query processing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 208 Expired
US6324165A Large capacity, multiclass core ATM switch architecture Electricity 161 Expired
US6240423A Method and system for image querying using region based and boundary based image matching Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 140 Expired
US6408005B1 Dynamic rate control scheduler for ATM networks Electricity 130 Expired
US6393427B1 Personalized navigation trees Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 118 Expired
US6404738B1 Dynamic network bandwidth allocation for multimedia applications with soft quality-of-service requirements Electricity 113 Expired
US6498795B1 Method and apparatus for active information discovery and retrieval Electricity 109 Expired
US6549896B1 System and method employing random walks for mining web page associations and usage to optimize user-oriented web page refresh and pre-fetch scheduling Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 104 Expired
US6055571A Computer network with microeconomic flow control Electricity 103 Expired
US5974036A Handoff-control technique for wireless ATM Electricity 93 Expired
US5530695A UPC-based traffic control framework for ATM networks Electricity 87 Expired
US6345373B1 System and method for testing high speed VLSI devices using slower testers Physics 82 Expired
US6075240A Hand-held plastic optical fiber linear scanner for reading color images formed on a surface Electricity 79 Expired
US6064649A Network interface card for wireless asynchronous transfer mode networks Electricity 76 Expired
US6157027A Modular optical fiber color image scanner with all-optical scanner head having side-coupled light guide for providing illumination light to the scanner head Electricity 75 Expired
US5717691A Multimedia network interface for asynchronous transfer mode communication system Electricity 71 Expired
US6046981A Multi-class connection admission control method for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches Electricity 70 Expired
US6389019B1 Time-based scheduler architecture and method for ATM networks Electricity 64 Expired

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