Inventor · Ascot, GB

Ian G. Colloff

21Patents
10h-index
20Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 10, 1993 → May 31, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6950394B1 Methods and systems to transfer information using an alternative routing associated with a communication network Electricity 78 Expired
US8411677B1 Method and system for processing layered networking protocol packets Electricity 64 Active
US7936753B1 Method and system for reliable multicast Electricity 47 Active
US7330927B1 Apparatus and methodology for a pointer manager Electricity 44 Expired
US7643505B1 Method and system for real time compression and decompression Electricity 34 Active
US6922749B1 Apparatus and methodology for an input port of a switch that supports cut-through operation within the switch Physics 30 Expired
US5530834A Set-associative cache memory having an enhanced LRU replacement strategy Physics 16 Expired
US7209476B1 Method and apparatus for input/output port mirroring for networking system bring-up and debug Electricity 15 Expired
US6170003A Apparatus and method for communicating messages between data processing nodes using remote reading of message queues Electricity 14 Expired
US7269697B1 Apparatus and methodology for an input port scheduler Physics 12 Expired
US7903557B1 Multipathing using multiple endpoint addresses for load balancing in a network Electricity 7 Active
US7124241B1 Apparatus and methodology for a write hub that supports high speed and low speed data rates Electricity 7 Expired
US8089971B1 Method and system for transmitting flow control information Electricity 6 Active
US8050260B1 Method and system for load balancing in infiniband switches and networks Electricity 6 Active
US7231444B1 Method and management port for an indirect loop protocol associated with an interconnect device Electricity 4 Expired
US5737741A Disk array with parity data storage on the radially inner part of each disk Physics 3 Expired
US8477779B1 Method and system for reliable multicast Electricity 3 Active
US9019961B2 Method and system for reliable multicast Electricity 2 Active
US7764676B1 Method and system for processing network information Physics 2 Active
US8780902B1 Multipathing using multiple endpoint addresses for load balancing in a network Electricity 0 Active
US8761020B1 Method and system for load balancing in InfiniBand switches and networks Electricity 0 Active

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