Inventor · Pleasanton, CA, US

Howard Frazier

36Patents
10h-index
18Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 6, 1995 → Jul 1, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7573916B1 Multi-function high-speed network interface Electricity 267 Active
US6246680A Highly integrated multi-layer switch element architecture Electricity 97 Expired
US6591303B1 Method and apparatus for parallel trunking of interfaces to increase transfer bandwidth Electricity 64 Expired
US5784559A Full duplex flow control for ethernet networks Electricity 51 Expired
US6029202A Full duplex flow control for ethernet networks Electricity 46 Expired
US7986622B2 Method and system for physical layer aggregation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Active
US5940401A Carrier extension for gigabit/second ethernet networks operable up to at least 200 m distances Electricity 23 Expired
US7864794B2 Method and system for managing an energy efficient network utilizing audio video bridging Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active
US6956852B1 Multi-function high-speed network interface Electricity 15 Expired
USRE38309E1 Full duplex flow control for Ethernet networks General 10 Expired
US9106570B2 50 Gb/s Ethernet using serializer/deserializer lanes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US8295312B2 Method and system for compensated time stamping for time-sensitive network communications Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8259761B2 Method and system for managing multimedia traffic over ethernet Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8284799B2 Method and system for supporting a variable and energy efficient data rate using a duty cycling technique and multiple power states on an Ethernet link Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US8392637B2 System and method for enabling legacy medium access control to do energy efficent ethernet Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8488450B2 Method and system for physical layer aggregation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8532139B2 Method and system for indicating a transition in rate and/or power consumption utilizing a distinct physical pattern on one or more idle channel(s) Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8891561B2 50 Gb/s ethernet using serializer/deserializer lanes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8194548B2 Method and system for duty cycling portions of a network device based on aggregate throughput of the device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9313140B2 Packet preemption for low latency Electricity 3 Active
US8165162B2 Method and system for optimizing fragment size for aggregation at the physical layer Electricity 3 Active
US9323311B2 Method and system for packet based signaling between A Mac and A PHY to manage energy efficient network devices and/or protocols Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US8286007B2 Hybrid technique in energy efficient ethernet physical layer devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9065736B2 Method and system for compensated time stamping for time-sensitive network communications Electricity 1 Active
US10181968B2 System and method for backchannel closed loop feedback for channel equalization over Ethernet Electricity 1 Active

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