Inventor · Woodside, CA, US

Edward E. Sprague

28Patents
6h-index
37Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 2, 2001 → Jul 16, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US10656200B2 High volume system level testing of devices with pop structures Physics 28 Active
US9800495B2 Fast protection path activation using control plane messages Electricity 28 Active
US6628725B1 Method and system for encoding data for transmission over a serial link Electricity 26 Expired
US7286487B2 Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same Electricity 21 Expired
US7751713B2 Communication network with skew path monitoring and adjustment Electricity 15 Active
US8274892B2 Universal digital framer architecture for transport of client signals of any client payload and format type Electricity 13 Active
US8223803B2 Programmable time division multiplexed switching Electricity 5 Active
US8412040B2 Method and apparatus for mapping traffic using virtual concatenation Electricity 5 Active
US7684399B2 Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same Electricity 5 Active
US8446906B2 Providing access to client overhead while transparently transmitting the client signal Electricity 4 Active
US7716560B1 Protection switch decision architecture Electricity 3 Active
US8565610B2 Maintaining correlated virtual data streams through a network Electricity 3 Active
US7769051B2 Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same Electricity 3 Active
US8370706B2 Interleaved correction code transmission Electricity 2 Active
US8477596B2 Application of hardware-based mailboxes in network transceivers and distributed approach for predictable software-based protection switching Electricity 2 Active
US8660020B2 Communication network with skew compensation Electricity 2 Active
US8111685B2 Communication network with co-routed multi-channel traffic Electricity 2 Active
US8442040B2 Modular adaptation and configuration of a network node architecture Electricity 2 Active
US7672301B2 Distribution stage for enabling efficient expansion of a switching network Electricity 1 Active
US8411708B2 Dual asynchronous mapping of client signals of arbitrary rate Electricity 1 Active
US8300479B2 Temporal alignment of data unit groups in a switch Electricity 0 Active
US8638817B2 Communication system Electricity 0 Active
US8175113B2 Communication network with node bypassed co-routed multi-channel traffic Electricity 0 Active
US8848720B2 Method and apparatus for determining propagation delay in a network Electricity 0 Active
US8259703B2 Communication network with skew determination Electricity 0 Active

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