Inventor · Tinton Falls, NJ, US

John O. Limb

33Patents
13h-index
16Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 3, 1975 → May 5, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7061877B1 System and method for providing high speed wireless media access Electricity 239 Expired
US4532626A Collision avoiding system and protocol for a two path multiple access digital communications system Electricity 111 Expired
US4439763A Collision avoiding system and protocol for a multiple access digital communications system Electricity 85 Expired
US6804251B1 System and method for multiplexing data from multiple sources Electricity 83 Expired
US4412326A Collision avoiding system, apparatus and protocol for a multiple access digital communications system including variable length packets Electricity 70 Expired
US7333495B2 Method for scheduling upstream communications Electricity 56 Expired
US7164690B2 Method for opening a proprietary MAC protocol in a non-DOCSIS modem compatibly with a DOCSIS modem Electricity 52 Expired
US4004084A Video conferencing system using spatial reduction and temporal resolution Electricity 47 Expired
US4581735A Local area network packet protocol for combined voice and data transmission Electricity 39 Expired
US4779267A Traffic scheduler for multiple access communication channels Electricity 37 Expired
US4542502A Reconfigurable collision avoiding system, station and protocol for a two path multiple access digital communications system Electricity 34 Expired
US6185224A System and method for communicating data in a cable network Electricity 25 Expired
US3982063A Methods and apparatus for reducing the bandwidth of a video signal Electricity 22 Expired
US4009330A Circuit for selecting frames indicative of still pictures Electricity 13 Expired
US7245621B2 Filtering and forwarding frames at an optical network node Electricity 11 Expired
US4129882A Video coder for color signals Electricity 9 Expired
US5111456A Apparatus and method for communicating data between a plurality of stations Electricity 8 Expired
US4782484A Encoding and decoding signals for transmission over a multi-access medium Electricity 6 Expired
US7720090B2 Apparatuses and methods to utilize multiple protocols in a communication system Electricity 5 Active
US7349394B2 Filtering and forwarding frames at an optical line terminal Electricity 5 Expired
US5271008A Unidirectional bus system using reset signal Electricity 4 Expired
US4091415A Method and apparatus for detecting temporal changes in an object Electricity 3 Expired
US7940774B2 Method for scheduling wireless communications Electricity 2 Active
US7411980B2 Filtering and forwarding frames within an optical network Electricity 2 Expired
US7912066B2 Methods of allocating packets in a wireless communication system Electricity 2 Active

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