Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Michael Fine

25Patents
15h-index
28Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 30, 1988 → Jul 13, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5959968A Port aggregation protocol Electricity 264 Expired
US6188694A Shared spanning tree protocol Electricity 215 Expired
US6643260B1 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 195 Expired
US6275933A Security system for a computerized apparatus Physics 114 Expired
US5313467A Integrated communication link having a dynamically allocatable bandwidth and protocol for transmission of allocation information over the link Electricity 113 Expired
US6298061A Port aggregation protocol Electricity 86 Expired
US6163543A Port aggregation protocol Electricity 80 Expired
US6813250B1 Shared spanning tree protocol Electricity 68 Expired
US6798746B1 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Electricity 54 Expired
US6870812B1 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US4894846A Method for maintaining a correct time in a distributed processing system Electricity 50 Expired
US6741592B1 Private VLANs Electricity 41 Expired
US6868065B1 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US6215799A Analog telephone to Electricity 26 Expired
US8713639B2 Method and apparatus for policy-based network access control with arbitrary network access control frameworks Electricity 19 Active
US7200145B1 Private VLANs Electricity 15 Expired
US7546458B1 Method for organizing virtual networks while optimizing security Electricity 14 Active
US8245281B2 Method and apparatus for policy-based network access control with arbitrary network access control frameworks Electricity 8 Active
US7840708B2 Method and system for the assignment of security group information using a proxy Electricity 8 Active
US7877601B2 Method and system for including security information with a packet Electricity 6 Active
US7886145B2 Method and system for including security information with a packet Electricity 5 Active
US7992193B2 Method and apparatus to secure AAA protocol messages Electricity 4 Active
US8713201B2 Method and system for the assignment of security group information using a proxy Electricity 3 Active
US8037514B2 Method and apparatus for securely disseminating security server contact information in a network Electricity 3 Active
US8555056B2 Method and system for including security information with a packet Electricity 2 Active

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