Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Michael S. Siegel

142Patents
26h-index
129Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 24, 1992 → Aug 4, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5878408A Data management system and process Physics 350 Expired
US7710874B2 System and method for automatic management of many computer data processing system pipes Electricity 345 Active
US6868082B1 Network processor interface for building scalable switching systems Physics 182 Expired
US6657962B1 Method and system for managing congestion in a network Electricity 160 Expired
US6185185A Methods, systems and computer program products for suppressing multiple destination traffic in a computer network Electricity 127 Expired
US7385997B2 Priority based bandwidth allocation within real-time and non-real-time traffic streams Electricity 126 Expired
US5491687A Method and system in a local area network switch for dynamically changing operating modes Electricity 105 Expired
US6775284B1 Method and system for frame and protocol classification Electricity 93 Expired
US6404752B1 Network switch using network processor and methods Electricity 89 Expired
US6498781B1 Self-tuning link aggregation system Electricity 84 Expired
US6460120B1 Network processor, memory organization and methods Electricity 83 Expired
US6137797A Process definition for source route switching Electricity 83 Expired
US6675163B1 Full match (FM) search algorithm implementation for a network processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US5812130A Data management system and method for concurrent engineering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 63 Expired
US8130650B2 Retro flow control for arriving traffic in computer networks Electricity 60 Active
US5423051A Execution unit with an integrated vector operation capability Physics 60 Expired
US6947931B1 Longest prefix match (LPM) algorithm implementation for a network processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US6769033B1 Network processor processing complex and methods Electricity 45 Expired
US7167471B2 Network processor with single interface supporting tree search engine and CAM Electricity 43 Expired
US6795870B1 Method and system for network processor scheduler Electricity 37 Expired
US5561666A Apparatus and method for determining operational mode for a station entering a network Electricity 37 Expired
US6714562B1 Method and apparatus for segmenting network traffic variable length frames Electricity 36 Expired
US6557053B1 Queue manager for a buffer Physics 36 Expired
US7139753B2 Full match (FM) search algorithm implementation for a network processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US6766381B1 VLSI network processor and methods Electricity 31 Expired

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