Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Gerald Schmidt

71Patents
8h-index
37Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 22, 1995 → Nov 1, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8548330B2 Sectorization in distributed antenna systems, and related components and methods Electricity 77 Active
US10050896B2 Management of an over-subscribed shared buffer Electricity 42 Active
US5659641A Optical circuit on printed circuit board Electricity 26 Expired
US8913892B2 Sectorization in distributed antenna systems, and related components and methods Electricity 22 Active
US9379963B2 Apparatus and method of generating lookups and making decisions for packet modifying and forwarding in a software-defined network engine Electricity 19 Active
USRE38310E1 Optical circuit on printed circuit board General 16 Expired
US9184843B2 Determining propagation delay of communications in distributed antenna systems, and related components, systems, and methods Electricity 15 Active
US9620213B2 Method and system for reconfigurable parallel lookups using multiple shared memories Electricity 13 Active
US9565136B2 Multicast replication engine of a network ASIC and methods thereof Electricity 6 Active
US9813327B2 Hierarchical hardware linked list approach for multicast replication engine in a network ASIC Electricity 6 Active
US10003676B2 Method and apparatus for generating parallel lookup requests utilizing a super key Electricity 6 Active
US10205649B2 Hierarchical hardware linked list approach for multicast replication engine in a network ASIC Electricity 4 Active
US9729338B2 Fast hardware switchover in a control path in a network ASIC Electricity 3 Active
US9548945B2 Matrix of on-chip routers interconnecting a plurality of processing engines and a method of routing using thereof Electricity 3 Active
US8977133B2 Distributed communications system employing free-space-optical link(S), and related components and methods Electricity 2 Active
US9781553B2 Location based services in a distributed communication system, and related components and methods Electricity 2 Active
US9825884B2 Protocol independent programmable switch (PIPS) software defined data center networks Electricity 1 Active
US9369222B2 Determining propagation delay of communications in distributed antenna systems, and related components, systems, and methods Electricity 1 Active
US9531848B2 Method of using generic modification instructions to enable flexible modifications of packets and an apparatus thereof Electricity 1 Active
US11050859B2 Method of using bit vectors to allow expansion and collapse of header layers within packets for enabling flexible modifications and an apparatus thereof Electricity 1 Active
US10050833B2 Method of reducing latency in a flexible parser and an apparatus thereof Electricity 1 Active
US9531849B2 Method of splitting a packet into individual layers for modification and intelligently stitching layers back together after modification and an apparatus thereof Electricity 1 Active
US9553819B2 Systems and methods for timing adjustment of metadata paths in a network switch under timing constraints Electricity 1 Active
US9635146B2 Method of using bit vectors to allow expansion and collapse of header layers within packets for enabling flexible modifications and an apparatus thereof Electricity 1 Active
US9497294B2 Method of using a unique packet identifier to identify structure of a packet and an apparatus thereof Electricity 1 Active

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