David A. Brown
86Patents
16h-index
52Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 2, 1995 → Dec 6, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6950428B1 | System and method for configuring adaptive sets of links between routers in a system area network (SAN) | Electricity | 194 | Expired |
| US6754211B1 | Method and apparatus for wire speed IP multicast forwarding | Electricity | 105 | Expired |
| US6661791B1 | Method and apparatus for generating forward overrides in a packet switch | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US6420982B1 | Multi-stage lookup for translating between signals of different bit lengths | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US6539369B2 | Method and apparatus for storing sparse and dense subtrees in a longest prefix match lookup table | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US6249756A | Hybrid flow control | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US6738344B1 | Link extenders with link alive propagation | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US7398840B2 | Matrix drill bits and method of manufacture | Performing Operations; Transporting | 33 | Active |
| US6844689B1 | Multiple beam linear accelerator system | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US7007071B1 | Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in a shared memory switch | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US6691218B2 | Method and apparatus for longest match address lookup | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US6775281B1 | Method and apparatus for a four-way hash table | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US6633567B1 | Method and apparatus for searching a filtering database with one search operation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US6711170B1 | Method and apparatus for an interleaved non-blocking packet buffer | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US10061832B2 | Database tuple-encoding-aware data partitioning in a direct memory access engine | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US8442097B2 | Apparatus for and method of making pulse-shape measurements | Electricity | 20 | Active |
| US6836771B2 | Method and apparatus for storing sparse and dense subtrees in a longest prefix match lookup table | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US7784381B2 | Matrix drill bits and method of manufacture | Performing Operations; Transporting | 14 | Active |
| US6880064B1 | Method and apparatus for physical width expansion of a longest prefix match lookup table | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6862287B2 | Method and apparatus for a four-way hash table | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6917954B2 | Load balancing in IP address lookup | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US6384750B1 | Multi-stage lookup for translating between signals of different bit lengths | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6856595B1 | Method and apparatus for providing input back pressure in an output buffered switch | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6217175A | Laser marking process on retro-reflective material for security labels | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Expired |
| US7403976B2 | Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in a shared memory switch | Electricity | 8 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.