Inventor · Pitman, NJ, US

Eric Ward Gray

21Patents
10h-index
21Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 7, 1991 → Jan 21, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5504921A Network management system using model-based intelligence Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 684 Expired
US5261044A Network management system using multifunction icons for information display Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 396 Expired
US6374303B1 Explicit route and multicast tree setup using label distribution Electricity 243 Expired
US6374293B1 Network management system using model-based intelligence Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 86 Expired
US5727157A Apparatus and method for determining a computer network topology Electricity 57 Expired
US9071529B2 Method and apparatus for accelerating forwarding in software-defined networks Electricity 20 Active
US7848259B2 Systems and methods for inferring services on a network Electricity 15 Active
US8010643B2 System and methods for simulating traffic generation Electricity 12 Active
US8711703B2 Load balancing in shortest-path-bridging networks Electricity 11 Active
US8130661B2 Systems and methods for intelligent probe testing Electricity 11 Active
US7697556B2 MAC (media access control) tunneling and control and method Electricity 7 Active
US8400941B2 Systems and methods for inferring services on a network Electricity 3 Active
US9160666B2 Encoding a payload hash in the DA-MAC to facilitate elastic chaining of packet processing elements Electricity 2 Active
US10567101B2 Transmitting residence time information in a network Electricity 2 Active
US9608752B2 Systems and methods of transporting internal radio base station (RBS) interface information over a packet switched network Electricity 1 Active
US11444713B2 Transmitting residence time information in a network Electricity 1 Active
US8467298B2 Applying a table-lookup approach to load spreading in forwarding data in a network Electricity 1 Active
US8738757B2 System and method for variable-size table construction applied to a table-lookup approach for load-spreading in forwarding data in a network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9197558B2 Load balancing in shortest-path-bridging networks Electricity 0 Active
US8811190B2 Maximum transmission unit (MTU) size discovery mechanism and method for data-link layers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US9148300B2 Method and system for telecommunications including self-organizing scalable Ethernet using IS-IS hierarchy Electricity 0 Active

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