Inventor · Andover, MA, US

Henry S. Yang

35Patents
20h-index
28Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 25, 1988 → Mar 6, 2003

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6532212B1 Trunking inter-switch links Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 147 Expired
US5606665A Buffer descriptor prefetch in network and I/O design Electricity 126 Expired
US5410535A Automatic selection of an interface for ethernet stations Electricity 74 Expired
US5121382A Station-to-station full duplex communication in a communications network Physics 73 Expired
US6819654B2 Trunking inter-switch links Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US5650997A Method and apparatus for use in a network of the ethernet type, to improve fairness by controlling collision backoff times in the event of channel capture Electricity 70 Expired
US5155726A Station-to-station full duplex communication in a token ring local area network Electricity 65 Expired
US5436903A Method and apparatus for use in a network of the ethernet type, to improve fairness by controlling collision backoff times and using stopped backoff timing in the event of channel capture Electricity 53 Expired
US5546543A Method for assigning priority to receive and transmit requests in response to occupancy of receive and transmit buffers when transmission and reception are in progress Physics 51 Expired
US5404353A Dynamic defer technique for traffic congestion control in a communication network bridge device Electricity 50 Expired
US6526052B1 Virtual local area networks having rules of precedence Electricity 48 Expired
US5084870A Network topology control method and apparatus Electricity 45 Expired
US5838989A Common interface for a network having different communication media employing a carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) protocol Electricity 45 Expired
US5596575A Automatic network speed adapter Electricity 43 Expired
US5280582A No-owner frame and multiple token removal mechanism for token ring networks Electricity 43 Expired
US5418784A Method and apparatus for use in a network of the ethernet type, to improve fairness by controlling the interpacket gap in the event of channel capture Electricity 41 Expired
US5526355A Method and apparatus for use in a network of the ethernet type, to improve performance by reducing the occurrence of collisions in the event of channel capture Electricity 40 Expired
US5812774A System for transmitting data packet from buffer by reading buffer descriptor from descriptor memory of network adapter without accessing buffer descriptor in shared memory Physics 31 Expired
US5327534A Detection of duplicate alias addresses Electricity 31 Expired
US5283571A Testing a communications network for duplicate station addresses Electricity 23 Expired
US5305306A Station-to-station full duplex communication in a token ring local area network Electricity 18 Expired
US5414700A Negotiation protocol for establishment of full duplex communication on a token ring network Electricity 13 Expired
US5371868A Method and apparatus for deriving addresses from stored address information for use in identifying devices during communication Electricity 12 Expired
US5291491A Avoidance of false re-initialization of a computer network Electricity 12 Expired
US5477540A Frame removal mechanism using end delimiter frames for token ring networks Electricity 12 Expired

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