Ballard C. Bare
34Patents
13h-index
12Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 29, 1993 → Jan 30, 2015
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5920699A | Broadcast isolation and level 3 network switch | Electricity | 169 | Expired |
| US6456597B1 | Discovery of unknown MAC addresses using load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 166 | Expired |
| US7430164B2 | Path recovery on failure in load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 155 | Expired |
| US6556541B1 | MAC address learning and propagation in load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 129 | Expired |
| US6577600B1 | Cost calculation in load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 128 | Expired |
| US6580715B1 | Load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 105 | Expired |
| US6493318B1 | Cost propagation switch protocols | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US6865160B1 | Broadcast tree determination in load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US6473403B1 | Identify negotiation switch protocols | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US7706411B2 | Handling oversubscribed mesh ports with re-tagging | Electricity | 39 | Active |
| US6151635A | Router connections through switching networks using virtual circuits | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US7283476B2 | Identity negotiation switch protocols | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US7898986B2 | Port configuration | Electricity | 16 | Active |
| US7382734B2 | Directing a path verification request along a specific path to a mesh network switch to test operability of the specific path | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US6654382B1 | Network device with logical-address learn mode | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US6947384B2 | MAC address learning and propagation in load balancing switch protocols | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US7359383B2 | Load balancing with mesh tagging | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US8799444B2 | Automated host discovery and path tracing by network management server | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8009668B2 | Method and apparatus for router aggregation | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7376089B2 | Multiple-instance meshing | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7623533B2 | Switch meshing using multiple directional spanning trees | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US9077663B2 | Router aggregation | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US7447223B2 | Switching mesh with broadcast path redundancy | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US7656790B2 | Handling link failures with re-tagging | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US7609705B2 | Determination of a plurality of paths before selection of one path of the plurality of paths for transmission of one or more packets | Electricity | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.