Inventor · Marietta, GA, US

Alexander A. Smith

15Patents
8h-index
22Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 29, 1995 → Nov 1, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5519701A Architecture for high performance management of multiple circular FIFO storage means Electricity 167 Expired
US6359858B1 Switching redundancy control Electricity 58 Expired
US5604742A Communications system and method for efficient management of bandwidth in a FDDI station Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US8774232B2 Systems and methods of measuring latency and routing thereon in optical networks Electricity 19 Active
US8417111B2 Optical network in-band control plane signaling, virtualized channels, and tandem connection monitoring systems and methods Electricity 15 Active
US6658006B1 System and method for communicating data using modified header bits to identify a port Electricity 14 Expired
US8089866B2 Spanning tree flooding backbone systems and methods for link state routed networks Electricity 10 Active
US6700868B2 Switching redundancy control Electricity 9 Expired
US7554975B2 Protocol agnostic switching Electricity 8 Active
US8553586B2 Systems and methods for automatically building and repairing a spanning tree flooding backbone in link state routed networks Electricity 6 Active
US6370115B1 Ethernet device and method for applying back pressure Electricity 5 Expired
US8682158B2 Systems and methods for detecting line flapping in optical networks Electricity 4 Active
US7245585B2 Method and system for transmitting traffic in a virtual tunnel of a transmission line Electricity 4 Expired
US8572485B2 Splitting and merging routing domains Electricity 1 Active
US11146073B2 System and method for optimization of engines on a common variable frequency bus Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.