Robert E. Thomas
28Patents
18h-index
24Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 24, 1989 → Jul 31, 2000
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5390173A | Packet format in hub for packet data communications system | Electricity | 425 | Expired |
| US5963556A | Device for partitioning ports of a bridge into groups of different virtual local area networks | Electricity | 113 | Expired |
| US5151899A | Tracking sequence numbers in packet data communication system | Electricity | 112 | Expired |
| US6560236B1 | Virtual LANs | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US5535209A | Method and apparatus for transporting timed program data using single transport schedule | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US5867480A | Method and apparatus for controlling congestion in a network node | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US5418967A | Fast arbiter having easy scaling for large numbers of requesters, large numbers of resource types with multiple instances of each type, and selectable queuing disciplines | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US5796966A | Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling data routes through a network | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US5265257A | Fast arbiter having easy scaling for large numbers of requesters, large numbers of resource types with multiple instances of each type, and selectable queuing disciplines | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US5970229A | Apparatus and method for performing look-ahead scheduling of DMA transfers of data from a host memory to a transmit buffer memory | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5905723A | System for achieving scalable router performance | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 34 | Expired |
| US5313641A | Fast arbiter having easy scaling for large numbers of requesters, large numbers of resource types with multiple instances of each type, and selectable queing disciplines | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6167049A | Non-zero minimum cell rate for available bit rate ATM service | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5434855A | Method and apparatus for selective interleaving in a cell-switched network | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5941952A | Apparatus and method for transferring data from a transmit buffer memory at a particular rate | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US6108305A | Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communications network using discrete rates and proportional rate scaling | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US5822612A | Apparatus and method for managing schedule table pointers | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US5966546A | Method and apparatus for performing TX raw cell status report frequency and interrupt frequency mitigation in a network node | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US4924463A | Data coding method for use in digital communication systems | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US6466997B1 | Method and apparatus for performing TX raw cell status report frequency and interrupt frequency mitigation in a network node | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5862206A | Method and apparatus for performing raw cell status report frequency mitigation on transmit in a network node | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US5995995A | Apparatus and method for scheduling virtual circuit data for DMA from a host memory to a transmit buffer memory | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US6337851B1 | Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communications network using discrete rates and proportional rate scaling | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5303391A | Fast arbiter having easy scaling for large numbers of requesters, large numbers of resource types with multiple instances of each type, and selectable queuing disciplines | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US5960215A | Transmit data FIFO for flow controlled data | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.