Inventor · Georgetown, TX, US

Lee E. Ballard

41Patents
4h-index
44Co-inventors
63Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 6, 1999 → Sep 29, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6522732B1 System and method of preserving stable calls during a split mode operation of telecommunications equipment Electricity 15 Expired
US10146653B2 Automated system-level failure and recovery Physics 5 Active
US10361948B2 Communication loop prevention in an information handling system Electricity 4 Active
US10276131B2 Systems and methods for remote mouse pointer management Physics 4 Active
US10419239B2 Switch dependent teaming for high availability of virtual network functions Electricity 2 Active
US9960987B2 System and method for using open source management modules on hardware switch elements Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9292108B2 Systems and methods for remote mouse pointer management Physics 2 Active
US9467441B2 Secure service delegator Physics 2 Active
US10075398B2 Systems and methods for enabling a host system to use a network interface of a management controller Electricity 1 Active
US11334416B2 System and method for transferring peripheral firmware core data Physics 1 Active
US11012407B2 System and method of utilizing multiple networks Electricity 1 Active
US11899602B2 Smart network interface controller operating system binding Physics 1 Active
US11438229B2 Systems and methods for operating system deployment and lifecycle management of a smart network interface card Electricity 1 Active
US10924435B2 System and method for port reduction using multiple chassis link aggregation group for stacked devices Electricity 0 Active
US11805338B2 Systems and methods for enabling smart network interface card as an advanced telemetry appliance Electricity 0 Active
US11516256B2 Certificate authorization policy for security protocol and data model capable devices Electricity 0 Active
US11928191B2 System and method for authorization scope extension for security protocol and data model capable devices Physics 0 Active
US10990680B2 Method and apparatus for securing add-in cards from firmware and configuration changes Physics 0 Active
US10785120B2 Systems and methods for extending link layer discovery over virtual Ethernet bridges Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US11431506B2 System and method of utilizing a component of an information handling system Physics 0 Active
US11909595B2 System and method for distributed management of communication devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US12222882B2 Systems and methods for smart network interface card-initiated server management Physics 0 Active
US10853113B2 Hierarchically nested virtualized functions having a physical function providing processing requests and responses to each level of the hierarchy Physics 0 Active
US12164642B2 Smart network interface controller signature database emulation Physics 0 Active
US10938640B2 System and method of managing an intelligent peripheral Physics 0 Active

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