Inventor · Durham, NC, US

Clark Debs Jeffries

122Patents
26h-index
105Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: May 5, 1994 → Jun 2, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7710874B2 System and method for automatic management of many computer data processing system pipes Electricity 345 Active
US7308716B2 Applying blocking measures progressively to malicious network traffic Electricity 309 Expired
US7464404B2 Method of responding to a truncated secure session attack Electricity 286 Expired
US7707633B2 Applying blocking measures progressively to malicious network traffic Electricity 285 Active
US6657962B1 Method and system for managing congestion in a network Electricity 160 Expired
US7487542B2 Intrusion detection using a network processor and a parallel pattern detection engine Electricity 136 Expired
US7385997B2 Priority based bandwidth allocation within real-time and non-real-time traffic streams Electricity 126 Expired
US7042841B2 Controlling network congestion using a biased packet discard policy for congestion control and encoded session packets: methods, systems, and program products Electricity 103 Expired
US6498781B1 Self-tuning link aggregation system Electricity 84 Expired
US6681364B1 Cyclic redundancy check for partitioned frames Electricity 72 Expired
US8130650B2 Retro flow control for arriving traffic in computer networks Electricity 60 Active
US6122254A Method and apparatus for network flow control with perceptive parameters Electricity 56 Expired
US6298340A System and method and computer program for filtering using tree structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6473763B1 System, method and computer program for filtering multi-action rule set Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US6633585B1 Enhanced flow control in ATM edge switches Electricity 50 Expired
US7107265B1 Software management tree implementation for a network processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US6917946B2 Method and system for partitioning filter rules for multi-search enforcement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US7911960B1 Delayed-start method for minimizing internal switch congestion Electricity 45 Expired
US6792423B1 Hybrid longest prefix match and fixed match searches Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US6674718B1 Unified method and system for scheduling and discarding packets in computer networks Electricity 41 Expired
US6035333A Method and system for providing congestion control in a data communications network Electricity 39 Expired
US6529897B1 Method and system for testing filter rules using caching and a tree structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US7348886B2 System and method to track inventory using RFID tags Physics 32 Active
US7280477B2 Token-based active queue management Electricity 30 Expired
US7084760B2 System, method, and program product for managing an intrusion detection system Electricity 29 Expired

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