Ian G. Colloff
21Patents
10h-index
20Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 10, 1993 → May 31, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.