Inventor · Ottawa, ON, CA

Michael Gazier

26Patents
11h-index
24Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 23, 1997 → Nov 28, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8456984B2 Virtualized shared protection capacity Electricity 318 Active
US7127049B2 System and method for enhancing the activation of DSL service Electricity 33 Expired
US8776161B2 Systems and methods for video processing in network edge devices Electricity 30 Active
US8630315B2 Ethernet network synchronization systems and methods Electricity 26 Active
US6880088B1 Secure maintenance messaging in a digital communications network Electricity 25 Expired
US8983293B2 Electro-optical switching fabric systems and methods Electricity 24 Active
US6154449A Switchless network Electricity 17 Expired
US9551836B2 Optical switch fabric for data center interconnections Electricity 17 Active
US9936047B2 Method and apparatus for provisioning virtual network functions from a network service provider Electricity 13 Active
US5978376A Providing access to a distributed data processing system Electricity 11 Expired
US9836931B1 Haptic strength responsive to motion detection Physics 11 Active
US8059685B2 Methods and systems for carrying synchronization over Ethernet and optical transport network Electricity 5 Active
US7317725B2 System and method for implementing combined packetized TDM streams and TDM cross connect functions Electricity 5 Active
US8467290B2 Methods and systems for distributed authentication and caching for internet protocol multimedia subsystem and other session initiation protocol systems Electricity 5 Active
US8787170B2 Methods and systems for existential provisioning of flexible line modules using distributed control Electricity 4 Active
US8355333B2 Methods and systems for session initiation protocol control of network equipment Electricity 4 Active
US8204382B2 Radio frequency-based optical transport network systems and methods Electricity 3 Active
US8885634B2 Systems and methods for carrier ethernet using referential tables for forwarding decisions Electricity 3 Active
US7181545B2 Network synchronization architecture for a Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US8305884B2 Systems and methods for a self-healing carrier ethernet topology Electricity 2 Active
US6483836B1 ATM connection accelerator for use in communication networks Electricity 2 Expired
US7962619B2 Methods and systems for extensible markup language control of network equipment Electricity 1 Active
US9509626B2 Method and apparatus for provisioning a virtual machine (VM) from a network service provider Electricity 1 Active
US9100133B2 Methods and systems for carrying synchronization over ethernet and optical transport network Electricity 0 Active
US8832755B2 Methods and systems for interactive video transport over Ethernet networks Electricity 0 Active

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