Inventor · Tomball, TX, US

Michael Lee Witkowski

24Patents
14h-index
19Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 30, 1996 → May 20, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6098110A Network switch with a multiple bus structure and a bridge interface for transferring network data between different buses Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 118 Expired
US6260073A Network switch including a switch manager for periodically polling the network ports to determine their status and controlling the flow of data between ports Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 114 Expired
US6094434A Network switch with separate cut-through buffer Electricity 111 Expired
US5862338A Polling system that determines the status of network ports and that stores values indicative thereof Electricity 110 Expired
US6233242A Network switch with shared memory system Electricity 109 Expired
US6430626B1 Network switch with a multiple bus structure and a bridge interface for transferring network data between different buses Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 92 Expired
US6201789A Network switch with dynamic backpressure per port Electricity 55 Expired
US6233246A Network switch with statistics read accesses Electricity 54 Expired
US5892926A Direct media independent interface connection system for network devices Electricity 49 Expired
US6222840A Method and system for performing concurrent read and write cycles in network switch Electricity 44 Expired
US6098109A Programmable arbitration system for determining priority of the ports of a network switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US6389480B1 Programmable arbitration system for determining priority of the ports of a network switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US6665733B1 Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth Electricity 31 Expired
US7307995B1 System and method for linking a plurality of network switches Electricity 19 Expired
US7333485B2 Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth Electricity 7 Expired
US11561916B2 Processing task deployment in adapter devices and accelerators Electricity 5 Active
US10178011B2 Network traffic management via network switch QoS parameters analysis Electricity 2 Active
US10277535B2 Network switch systems including logical switches Physics 2 Active
US10484519B2 Auto-negotiation over extended backplane Electricity 1 Active
US10887204B2 Network infrastructure management Electricity 0 Active
US11593140B2 Smart network interface card for smart I/O Physics 0 Active
US8782185B2 Network booting a machine coupled to the network by a link aggregation group Physics 0 Active
US11669468B2 Interconnect module for smart I/O Electricity 0 Active
US11128741B2 Auto-negotiation over extended backplane Electricity 0 Active

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