Inventor · Leander, TX, US

Robert L. Winter

53Patents
7h-index
32Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 1996 → Oct 29, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7929565B2 Ethernet switching of PCI express packets Electricity 18 Active
US8693485B2 Virtualization aware network switch Electricity 11 Active
US8929255B2 System and method for input/output virtualization using virtualized switch aggregation zones Electricity 9 Active
US7920481B2 Path maximum transmission unit determination Electricity 8 Active
US9122810B2 System and method for providing input/output functionality to a processing node Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US8745373B2 Systems and methods for applying encryption to network traffic on the basis of policy Electricity 7 Active
US8325713B2 System and method to enable large MTUs in data center ethernet networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US8091007B2 Detection of duplicate packets Electricity 6 Active
US8094550B2 Methods and systems for controlling network communication parameters Electricity 6 Active
US7574594B2 Network authentication based on inter-packet gap characteristics Electricity 5 Active
US8874786B2 Network traffic control by association of network packets and processes Physics 5 Active
US9569383B2 Method of handling network traffic through optimization of receive side scaling Physics 4 Active
US7991008B2 Method for identifying the transmission control protocol stack of a connection Electricity 4 Active
US9191262B2 Network communication protocol processing optimization system Electricity 4 Active
US7929525B2 System and method for adding transport layer to uncompressed visual information packets Electricity 4 Active
US8072975B2 Host discovery across different address spaces Electricity 3 Active
US8261264B2 Accessing a network Physics 3 Active
US8341262B2 System and method for managing the offload type for offload protocol processing Electricity 3 Active
US7796585B2 Network switching in a network interface device and method of use thereof Electricity 3 Active
US9055467B2 Sender device based pause system Electricity 2 Active
US8780923B2 Information handling system data center bridging features with defined application environments Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US7869431B2 System and method for communication of uncompressed visual information through a network Electricity 2 Active
US9559948B2 System and method for managing unknown flows in a flow-based switching device Electricity 2 Active
US9665521B2 System and method for providing a processing node with input/output functionality by an I/O complex switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9019967B2 VLAN advertisement and automated configuration Electricity 2 Active

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