Inventor · North Reading, MA, US

Richard Woundy

45Patents
13h-index
39Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 30, 1997 → Oct 5, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6009103A Method and system for automatic allocation of resources in a network Electricity 369 Expired
US6055561A Mapping of routing traffic to switching networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 195 Expired
US6148000A Merging of data cells at network nodes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 122 Expired
US6839829B1 Routing protocol based redundancy design for shared-access networks Electricity 110 Expired
US6598057B1 Method and apparatus for generating configuration files using policy descriptions Electricity 91 Expired
US6023464A Auto-provisioning of user equipment Electricity 72 Expired
US6069889A Aggregation of data flows on switched network paths Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US6031841A RSVP support for upstream traffic Electricity 64 Expired
US6130889A Determining and maintaining hop-count for switched networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US6876667B1 Method and apparatus for establishing class of service configuration in a network device of a broadband cable network using dynamic host configuration protocol Electricity 38 Expired
US7046659B1 Call signaling approach to user self-provisioning on VoIP using a touch-tone interface Electricity 24 Expired
US7415603B2 Method and system of configuring media units from different vendors using a single bulk configuration file Electricity 14 Expired
US7844658B2 System and method for providing an application to a device Electricity 14 Active
US8572630B2 System and method for providing an application to a device Electricity 10 Active
US6385207B1 RSVP support for upstream traffic Electricity 9 Expired
US8255924B2 System and method for providing an application to a device Electricity 8 Active
US8644161B2 Congestion management in a shared network Electricity 8 Active
US8595758B2 Device provisioning Electricity 8 Active
US8144594B2 Congestion management in a shared network Electricity 7 Active
US7996526B2 Management of shared access network Electricity 6 Active
US7289447B2 Method and packet-level device for traffic regulation in a data network Electricity 6 Expired
US7966409B1 Routing protocol based redundancy design for shared-access networks Electricity 5 Active
US8019986B2 Method and system for booting, provisioning and activating hardware and software clients Electricity 4 Active
US8615648B2 Method and system for booting, provisioning and activating hardware and software clients Electricity 3 Active
US8121033B2 Methods for packet network traffic regulation Electricity 3 Active

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