Lance Hester
15Patents
7h-index
27Co-inventors
62Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 9, 2001 → Oct 3, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6982960B2 | Protocol for self-organizing network using a logical spanning tree backbone | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 59 | Expired |
| US7564842B2 | Methods and apparatuses for routing data in a personal area network | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 34 | Active |
| US6925064B2 | Method and apparatus for discovering neighbors within a piconet communication system | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US7002938B2 | Piconet spanning tree network | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US7133373B2 | Wireless network with improved sharing of high power consumption tasks | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US6788650B2 | Network architecture, addressing and routing | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US7203729B2 | Method and apparatus for a communication network with nodes capable of selective cluster head operation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US7724765B2 | Method and apparatus for providing quality of service over a contention access period of a wireless personal area network | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US9923757B1 | Reducing data sets related to network security events | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7492773B2 | Media access control and distributed data processing using mediation devices in an asynchronous network | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US7277394B2 | Non interfering group based wireless network protocols | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US7362724B2 | Method for rigid body discovery and peer-to-peer ranging in a scatternet and communications node | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US9106631B2 | Smart meter trust center switch | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US7440462B2 | Quality of service (QOS) control mechanisms using mediation devices in an asynchronous network | Electricity | 0 | Expired |
| US8681039B2 | Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.