Inventor · Garner, NC, US

Jack Anthony Smith

45Patents
16h-index
50Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: May 12, 1992 → Nov 28, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7142764B2 Optical fiber interconnect cabinets, termination modules and fiber connectivity management for the same Physics 318 Expired
US6275707A Method and apparatus for assigning location estimates from a first transceiver to a second transceiver Physics 231 Expired
US6640087B2 Method and apparatus for increasing service efficacy in an ad-hoc mesh network Electricity 117 Expired
US7298952B2 Optical fiber interconnect cabinets, termination modules and fiber connectivity management for the same Physics 69 Active
US6160798A Method and system for managing base station resources in a code division multiple access cellular communication system Electricity 51 Expired
US6134226A Method and system for allocating a system resource to subscribers of a wireless communications system Electricity 48 Expired
US5991262A Method and apparatus for reducing peak-to-average power ratio of a composite carrier signal Electricity 45 Expired
US5359654A Telecommunications network interface assembly Electricity 44 Expired
US6289203A Method of calculating signal propagation loss and creating a data base therefor Electricity 41 Expired
US7734483B1 Computer implemented method and system for analyzing pharmaceutical benefit plans and for providing member specific advice, optionally including lower cost pharmaceutical alternatives Physics 38 Active
US6714787B2 Method and apparatus for adapting a routing map for a wireless communications network Electricity 31 Expired
US6041239A Method and apparatus for distributing offered load in a wireless communications system Electricity 23 Expired
US5525756A Rodent-proof aerial splice closure Electricity 23 Expired
US8804586B2 Control channel interference management and extended PDCCH for heterogeneous network Electricity 20 Active
US6823180B2 Method and apparatus for adapting antenna visibility in a wireless communications unit Electricity 20 Expired
US8606286B2 E-PDCCH design for reducing blind decoding Electricity 19 Active
US7580713B2 Apparatus and method for establishing an active set of carriers for a receiver Electricity 12 Expired
US8194696B2 Method and apparatus for scheduling an acknowledgement transmission Electricity 11 Active
US9014020B2 Methods and systems of wireless communication with remote radio heads Electricity 10 Active
US8380540B1 Computer implemented method and system for analyzing pharmaceutical benefit plans and for providing member specific advice, optionally including lower cost pharmaceutical alternatives Physics 9 Active
US9565573B2 Providing secondary coverage in a mobile communication system Electricity 8 Active
US8254942B2 System and method for resource allocation in a wireless communications system Electricity 6 Active
US8249607B2 Scheduling in wireless communication systems Electricity 5 Active
US8406332B2 Downlink transmission in a multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (“MU-MIMO”) wireless communication system Electricity 5 Active
US7464313B2 Hybrid approach for data transmission using a combination of single-user and multi-user packets Electricity 4 Active

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