Inventor · Pittsburgh, PA, US

John E. Drake

60Patents
24h-index
114Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 18, 1982 → Jun 6, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.