Inventor · Ottawa, ON, CA

Marc Holness

68Patents
12h-index
66Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 19, 2003 → Mar 5, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7499407B2 System and method for managing an optical networking service Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 108 Expired
US7590054B1 Protection switching in an ethernet packet-switched network Electricity 29 Active
US8737198B1 Method and apparatus for controlling a set of ethernet nodes interconnected to form one or more closed loops Electricity 24 Active
US8295175B2 Service metrics for managing services transported over circuit-oriented and connectionless networks Electricity 22 Active
US8018841B2 Interworking an ethernet ring network and an ethernet network with traffic engineered trunks Electricity 20 Active
US7792044B2 Service management channel for managing an optical networking service Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US8588060B2 E-spring (G.8032) interworking to provide access protection Electricity 16 Active
US8305938B2 Interworking an ethernet ring network with a spanning tree controlled ethernet network Electricity 15 Active
US8509061B2 Systems and methods for scaling performance of Ethernet ring protection protocol Electricity 15 Active
US8149692B2 Ring topology discovery mechanism Electricity 14 Active
US7924725B2 Ethernet OAM performance management Electricity 12 Active
US9203549B2 Systems and methods for operational simplification of carrier ethernet networks Electricity 12 Active
US9401817B2 E-spring support of ethernet protection Electricity 12 Active
US9025435B2 Optimized seam allocation in an ethernet ring network Electricity 12 Active
US8085676B2 Method and system for looping back traffic in QIQ ethernet rings and 1:1 protected PBT trunks Electricity 11 Active
US9197493B2 Protection systems and methods for handling multiple faults and isolated nodes in interconnected ring networks Electricity 10 Active
US9075717B2 Connectivity fault notification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US9893937B2 Network technology interworking via user programmable event-action profiles Electricity 9 Active
US8625410B2 Dual homed E-spring protection for network domain interworking Electricity 9 Active
US10425153B2 Generalized service protection systems and methods Electricity 8 Active
US9344323B2 G.8032 ethernet multiple fault recovery mechanisms Electricity 8 Active
US8787147B2 Ten gigabit Ethernet port protection systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US10122619B2 Resilient dual-homed data network hand-off Electricity 7 Active
US10193765B2 Protection switching systems and methods in a packet network based on signal degrade Electricity 7 Active
US9319268B2 Q-in-Q Ethernet rings Electricity 7 Active

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