Inventor · Freetown, MA, US

Michael W. Patrick

30Patents
11h-index
33Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 22, 1981 → Jul 4, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5848233A Method and apparatus for dynamic packet filter assignment Electricity 246 Expired
US5790541A Apparatus, method, system and system method for distributed routing in a multipoint communication system Electricity 156 Expired
US5922049A Method for using DHCP and marking to override learned IP addesseses in a network Electricity 143 Expired
US4646232A Microprocessor with integrated CPU, RAM, timer, bus arbiter data for communication system Physics 133 Expired
US6073178A Method and apparatus for assignment of IP addresses Electricity 128 Expired
US4777591A Microprocessor with integrated CPU, RAM, timer, and bus arbiter for data communications systems Electricity 63 Expired
US7457313B2 Hierarchical prioritized round robin (HPRR) scheduling Electricity 31 Expired
US5394401A Arrangement for a token ring communications network Electricity 22 Expired
US4580216A Microcomputer with internal selection of on-chip or off-chip access Physics 20 Expired
US4797808A Microcomputer with self-test of macrocode Physics 15 Expired
US4571675A Microprocessor device with integrated auto-loaded timer Physics 12 Expired
US5537098A Signaling frequency detection for a communications network Electricity 7 Expired
US8516532B2 IP video delivery using flexible channel bonding Electricity 5 Active
US5384779A State machines for configuration of a communications network Electricity 5 Expired
US5353286A Configuration controller for a communications network Electricity 4 Expired
US7542422B2 Method and apparatus for classifying video flows to minimize switching time at a user terminal Electricity 4 Active
US10020962B2 Virtual converged cable access platform (CCAP) core Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US10616126B2 Virtual CCAP downstream traffic scheduling Electricity 3 Active
US8179883B2 Apparatus, method and system for managing session encapsulation information within an internet protocol content bypass architecture Electricity 3 Active
US10616000B2 Virtual converged cable access platform (CCAP) core Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US5523998A Configuration controller for establishing timing signals of a communications network Electricity 2 Expired
US9363188B2 Cable modem termination system control of cable modem queue length Electricity 1 Active
US11212590B2 Multiple core software forwarding Electricity 1 Active
US8468571B2 Enabling trick plays during VBR playback of a CBR transmitted media file Electricity 0 Active
US10530677B2 Namespace routing Electricity 0 Active

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