Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Keith McCloghrie

54Patents
27h-index
38Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 2, 1996 → Jul 16, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6167445A Method and apparatus for defining and implementing high-level quality of service policies in computer networks Electricity 750 Expired
US6219699A Multiple VLAN Architecture system Electricity 515 Expired
US6651101B1 Method and apparatus for identifying network data traffic flows and for applying quality of service treatments to the flows Electricity 364 Expired
US6032194A Method and apparatus for rapidly reconfiguring computer networks Electricity 248 Expired
US7185073B1 Method and apparatus for defining and implementing high-level quality of service policies in computer networks Electricity 239 Expired
US6286052A Method and apparatus for identifying network data traffic flows and for applying quality of service treatments to the flows Electricity 219 Expired
US6188694A Shared spanning tree protocol Electricity 215 Expired
US6697360B1 Method and apparatus for auto-configuring layer three intermediate computer network devices Electricity 185 Expired
US6651096B1 Method and apparatus for organizing, storing and evaluating access control lists Electricity 184 Expired
US6035105A Multiple VLAN architecture system Electricity 176 Expired
US6678241B1 Fast convergence with topology switching Electricity 123 Expired
US7366164B1 Method for regulating power for voice over Internet Protocol telephones Electricity 110 Expired
US6795858B1 Method and apparatus for metric based server selection Electricity 101 Expired
US6388995B1 Method and apparatus for rapidly reconfiguring computers networks executing the spanning tree algorithm Electricity 100 Expired
US6202114A Spanning tree with fast link-failure convergence Electricity 95 Expired
US6535491B2 Method and apparatus for rapidly reconfiguring computer networks using a spanning tree algorithm Electricity 87 Expired
US6434624B1 Method and apparatus for identifying network data traffic flows and for applying quality of service treatments to the flows Electricity 76 Expired
US6219739A Spanning tree with fast link-failure convergence Electricity 75 Expired
US6813250B1 Shared spanning tree protocol Electricity 68 Expired
US6304901A Multiple VLAN architecture system Electricity 60 Expired
US6839766B1 Method and apparatus for communicating cops protocol policies to non-cops-enabled network devices Electricity 56 Expired
US6751746B1 Method and apparatus for uninterrupted packet transfer using replication over disjoint paths Electricity 52 Expired
US6658458B1 Cascading associative memory arrangement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US7111073B1 Apparatus for estimating delay and jitter between network routers Electricity 46 Expired
US6920112B1 Sampling packets for network monitoring Electricity 45 Expired

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