Inventor · Morrisville, NC, US

Olen L. Stokes

18Patents
11h-index
27Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: May 18, 1981 → Jun 23, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4431912A Method for controlling the operation of an optical scanner Physics 82 Expired
US7269135B2 Methods and systems for providing redundant connectivity across a network using a tunneling protocol Electricity 67 Expired
US4548463A Holographic scanner control based on monitored diffraction efficiency Physics 65 Expired
US7177951B1 Address management in PNNI hierarchical networks Electricity 59 Expired
US4717818A Bar code label identification circuit Physics 41 Expired
US4421978A Decoding method for multicharacter labels Physics 33 Expired
US4713785A Method of inhibiting processing of duplicative coded label signals Physics 29 Expired
US4414468A Systematic error correction in bar code scanner Physics 24 Expired
US6452921B1 Method and system within a computer network for maintaining source-route information at a router bypassed by shortcut communication Electricity 20 Expired
US7724734B1 Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling updating of a layer 3 host table based on packet forwarding lookup miss counts Electricity 13 Active
US7149217B2 Load-sharing technique for distributing multi-protocol label switching protocol encapsulated flows across multiple physical links Electricity 12 Expired
US8059658B1 Method and system for automatic expansion and contraction of IP host forwarding database Electricity 11 Active
US7843927B1 Methods, systems, and computer program products for routing packets at a multi-mode layer 3 packet forwarding device Electricity 3 Active
US8797849B2 Redundant ethernet automatic protection switching access to virtual private LAN services Electricity 2 Active
US7990850B2 Redundant Ethernet automatic protection switching access to virtual private LAN services Electricity 2 Active
US9407455B2 Redundant Ethernet automatic protection switching access to virtual private LAN services Electricity 1 Active
US8331373B2 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically selecting between internet protocol switching modes on a per-module basis in a packet forwarding device Electricity 0 Active
US10469366B2 Redundant ethernet automatic protection switching access to virtual private LAN services Electricity 0 Active

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