John E. Drake
60Patents
24h-index
114Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 18, 1982 → Jun 6, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4827411A | Method of maintaining a topology database | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 252 | Expired |
| US5461611A | Quality of service management for source routing multimedia packet networks | Electricity | 234 | Expired |
| US5367523A | Adaptive rate-based congestion and flow control in packet communications networks | Electricity | 197 | Expired |
| US5359593A | Dynamic bandwidth estimation and adaptation for packet communications networks | Electricity | 183 | Expired |
| US5355371A | Multicast communication tree creation and control method and apparatus | Electricity | 172 | Expired |
| US5634011A | Distributed management communications network | Electricity | 148 | Expired |
| US5101348A | Method of reducing the amount of information included in topology database update messages in a data communications network | Electricity | 102 | Expired |
| US5343473A | Method of determining whether to use preempt/resume or alternate protocol for data transmission | Electricity | 99 | Expired |
| US8787400B1 | Weighted equal-cost multipath | Electricity | 82 | Active |
| US5109483A | Node initiating XID exchanges over an activated link including an exchange of sets of binding signals between nodes for establishing sessions | Electricity | 76 | Expired |
| US8804736B1 | Network tunneling using a label stack delimiter | Electricity | 67 | Active |
| US5289460A | Maintenance of message distribution trees in a communications network | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US8942256B1 | Advertising with a layer three routing protocol constituent link attributes of a layer two bundle | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 58 | Active |
| US5222242A | System for locating a node containing a requested resource and for selectively verifying the presence of the resource at the node | Electricity | 57 | Expired |
| US5425021A | Packet switching resource management within nodes | Electricity | 57 | Expired |
| US5483522A | Packet switching resource management within nodes | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US9019814B1 | Fast failover in multi-homed ethernet virtual private networks | Electricity | 50 | Active |
| US5398012A | Distributed processing of route selection across networks and subnetworks | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US6094687A | System and method for connecting source nodes and destination nodes regarding efficient quality of services route determination using connection profiles | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US5365523A | Forming and maintaining access groups at the lan/wan interface | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US4972437A | Method of controlling limited resource sessions in a data communications network | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US9397931B1 | Fast convergence in singly-homed ethernet virtual private networks | Electricity | 28 | Active |
| US4967345A | Method of selecting least weight routes in a communications network | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US9590902B2 | Signaling aliasing capability in data centers | Electricity | 26 | Active |
| US9178810B1 | Handling entropy labels when stitching label-switched paths | Electricity | 18 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.