Norman W. Finn
109Patents
24h-index
103Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: May 3, 1989 → Jan 4, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6219699A | Multiple VLAN Architecture system | Electricity | 515 | Expired |
| US5742604A | Interswitch link mechanism for connecting high-performance network switches | Electricity | 435 | Expired |
| US5959968A | Port aggregation protocol | Electricity | 264 | Expired |
| US5959989A | System for efficient multicast distribution in a virtual local area network environment | Electricity | 190 | Expired |
| US5058110A | Protocol processor | Electricity | 186 | Expired |
| US6035105A | Multiple VLAN architecture system | Electricity | 176 | Expired |
| US6937576B1 | Multiple instance spanning tree protocol | Electricity | 171 | Expired |
| US7515542B2 | Broadband access note with a virtual maintenance end point | Electricity | 106 | Active |
| US7177946B1 | Optimal sync for rapid spanning tree protocol | Electricity | 104 | Expired |
| US7328267B1 | TCP proxy connection management in a gigabit environment | Electricity | 95 | Expired |
| US8090866B1 | TCP proxy connection management in a gigabit environment | Electricity | 86 | Expired |
| US6298061A | Port aggregation protocol | Electricity | 86 | Expired |
| US6163543A | Port aggregation protocol | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US5835481A | Fault tolerant lane system | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US6304901A | Multiple VLAN architecture system | Electricity | 60 | Expired |
| US7653011B2 | Spanning tree protocol for wireless networks | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 41 | Active |
| US7606939B1 | Scaling private virtual local area networks (VLANs) across large metropolitan area networks (MANs). | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US7877483B1 | Virtual local area network pruning protocol | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US8850015B2 | Network-network interface | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US7180899B2 | Multi-tiered Virtual Local area Network (VLAN) domain mapping mechanism | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6049834A | Layer 3 switch unicast protocol | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US7292581B2 | Large-scale layer 2 metropolitan area network | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US7821972B1 | System and method for building large-scale layer 2 computer networks | Electricity | 27 | Active |
| US7392407B2 | Method and apparatus for negotiating power between power sourcing equipment and powerable devices | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7644317B1 | Method and apparatus for fault detection/isolation in metro Ethernet service | Electricity | 23 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.