Inventor · Cambridge, GB

Peter B. Key

25Patents
12h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 16, 1986 → Apr 15, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8031744B2 Full-duplex wireless communications Electricity 72 Active
US6842424B1 Methods and systems for alleviating network congestion Electricity 72 Expired
US4862496A Routing of network traffic Electricity 55 Expired
US7912003B2 Multipath forwarding algorithms using network coding Electricity 54 Active
US7284047B2 System and method for controlling network demand via congestion pricing Electricity 45 Expired
US6084955A Communication network control method and apparatus Electricity 33 Expired
US7023800B1 Congestion avoidance within aggregate channels Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US5521971A Communication network control method Electricity 24 Expired
US8340099B2 Control of background data transfers Electricity 18 Active
US7225267B2 Reactive bandwidth control for streaming data Electricity 17 Expired
US5991272A Method and apparatus for controlling a communications network Electricity 17 Expired
US7516238B2 Background transport service Electricity 14 Active
US8189489B2 Characterization of network path quality for network applications and services Electricity 11 Active
US6377677B1 Telecommunications network having successively utilized different network addresses to a single destination Electricity 10 Expired
US6947386B2 Practical network node coordinate estimation Electricity 9 Expired
US8045463B2 Path estimation in a wireless mesh network Electricity 7 Active
US8059541B2 End-host based network management system Electricity 6 Active
US8422444B2 Dynamic channel and transmission rate selection Electricity 6 Active
US7843828B2 Methods and systems for alleviating network congestion Electricity 5 Active
US8351331B2 Resource allocation framework for wireless/wired networks Electricity 4 Active
US7672234B2 Congestion avoidance within aggregate channels Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9407693B2 Network routing of endpoints to content based on content swarms Electricity 3 Active
US7689686B2 Active probing for sustainable capacity estimation of networked dataflows Electricity 2 Active
US7649841B2 Competitive and considerate congestion control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8743822B2 Dynamic channel and transmission rate selection Electricity 0 Active

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