Alexander A. Smith
15Patents
8h-index
22Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 29, 1995 → Nov 1, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.