Philip A. Thomas
48Patents
10h-index
52Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 25, 1996 → Aug 9, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6208335A | Method and apparatus for providing a menu structure for an interactive information distribution system | Electricity | 314 | Expired |
| US6163272A | Method and apparatus for managing personal identification numbers in interactive information distribution system | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US5781227A | Method and apparatus for masking the effects of latency in an interactive information distribution system | Electricity | 99 | Expired |
| US8687629B1 | Fabric virtualization for packet and circuit switching | Electricity | 67 | Active |
| US5966162A | Method and apparatus for masking the effects of latency in an interactive information distribution system | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US7032176B2 | Method and apparatus for providing a menu structure for an interactive information distribution system | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US9331929B1 | Methods and apparatus for randomly distributing traffic in a multi-path switch fabric | Electricity | 25 | Active |
| US9240843B1 | Method and apparatus for blind time skew compensation for coherent optical receivers | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US8254255B2 | Flow-control in a switch fabric | Electricity | 15 | Active |
| US8625596B1 | Multi-chassis topology discovery using in-band signaling | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US7877549B1 | Enforcement of cache coherency policies using process synchronization services | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7743200B1 | Instruction cache using perfect hash function | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US8804710B2 | System architecture for a scalable and distributed multi-stage switch fabric | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US11777839B2 | Data center network with packet spraying | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US8325749B2 | Methods and apparatus for transmission of groups of cells via a switch fabric | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US8953951B1 | Fast chromatic dispersion estimation | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US9838138B1 | Self-calibration of pluggable optical module | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US11412076B2 | Network access node virtual fabrics configured dynamically over an underlay network | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8717889B2 | Flow-control in a switch fabric | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8713221B1 | Rate controlled first in first out (FIFO) queues for clock domain crossing | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US9225431B1 | Fast chromatic dispersion estimation | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US9906243B1 | Methods and apparatus for flexible overhead forward error correction (FEC) sub-system for optical fiber communication systems | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US10862513B2 | Data processing unit having hardware-based parallel variable-length codeword decoding | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US9021582B2 | Parallelized pattern matching using non-deterministic finite automata | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US7966442B1 | Cache using perfect hash function | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.