Robert Duncan Doverspike
37Patents
10h-index
40Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 23, 1999 → Apr 19, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6097696A | Optical layer quasi-centralized restoration | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US6982951B2 | Method for selecting a restoration path in a mesh network | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US7088676B1 | Methods and systems for fast restoration in a mesh network of optical cross connects | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US7859993B1 | Two-phase fast reroute with optimized traffic engineering | Electricity | 31 | Active |
| US6970417B1 | Methods and systems for fast restoration in a mesh network of optical cross connects | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US7180852B1 | Method for selecting a restoration path in a mesh network | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US7599373B1 | Method and apparatus for automated provisioning for customer premises transport equipment | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US8150257B1 | Shared mesh restoration with pre-configured standby lightpaths | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US8515280B1 | Physically-diverse routing in heterogeneous optical networks | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US8422379B2 | Method of simple and efficient failure resilient load balancing | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US8260133B2 | Standby restoration signaling for optical networks | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US8611232B2 | Method of simple and efficient failure resilient load balancing | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US8467382B1 | Method and apparatus for providing a control plane across multiple optical network domains | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US8750161B1 | Metropolitan IP aggregation network design tool | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US7450496B1 | Method for selecting restoration path in a mesh network | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US7298700B1 | Method for unidirectional and bidirectional label switched path setup in a label switched network | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US8452176B2 | Reachability matrices spanning multiple domains in an optical network | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US8010694B2 | Network performance and reliability evaluation taking into account multiple traffic matrices | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8406622B2 | 1:N sparing of router resources at geographically dispersed locations | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8532137B1 | Network architecture for a packet aware transport network | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8989018B2 | Method and apparatus for providing a route recommendation | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8761601B2 | 1:N sparing of router resources at geographically dispersed locations | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US9264344B2 | Method and apparatus for providing a route recommendation | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US7450516B1 | Link selection schemes for avoiding channel contention | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US7782772B2 | Method for unidirectional and bidirectional label switched path setup in a label switched network | Electricity | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.