Alain Blanc
49Patents
12h-index
42Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 14, 1986 → May 11, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6411599B1 | Fault tolerant switching architecture | Electricity | 95 | Expired |
| US6606300B1 | Flow control process for a switching system and system for performing the same | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US6125114A | Switching system comprising distributed elements allowing attachment to line adapters, and having multicasting capabilities | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US6343081B1 | Method and apparatus for managing contention in a self-routing switching architecture in a port expansion mode | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6055235A | Switching system | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US6570845B1 | Switching system including a mask mechanism for altering the internal routing process | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5359709A | Apparatus and method for providing multiple operating configurations in data circuit terminating equipment | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6667955B1 | Switching fabric system having at least one subsystem including switch core elements arranged in port expansion architecture | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US6982956B2 | System and method for controlling communications network traffic through phased discard strategy selection | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5220327A | Decimation filter in a sigma-delta analog-to-digtal converter | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US6795515B1 | Method and apparatus for locating sampling points in a synchronous data stream | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US5204883A | Method and apparatus for recognition of a framing pattern distributed in a serial bit stream | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5329553A | Decimation filter for a sigma-delta converter and data circuit terminating equipment including the same | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US7061909B2 | System and method for controlling the multicast traffic of a data packet switch | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6108334A | Switching system comprising distributed elements allowing attachment to line adapters | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US5465345A | Parallel processing of received and transmitted bit stream in telecommunications equipment including a DSP and supporting HDLC/SDLC protocols | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6597656B1 | Switch system comprising two switch fabrics | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5409194A | Variable flow electrically controlled valve | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US4845752A | Multi-signal processor synchronized system | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US5461641A | Decimation filter for a sigma-delta converter and A/D converter using the same | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US7400629B2 | CAM based system and method for re-sequencing data packets | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6661786B1 | Service message system for a switching architecture | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US6990418B2 | Method and systems for optimizing high-speed signal transmission | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US4941151A | Predictive clock recovery circuit | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US5315622A | Data circuit terminating equipment (DCE) including timing arrangements circuits controlled by processing means | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.