Inventor · Katonah, NY, US

Robert Sultan

39Patents
8h-index
29Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 23, 1993 → Oct 12, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5511208A Locating resources in computer networks having cache server nodes Electricity 273 Expired
US6016306A Routing bandwidth-reserved connections in information networks Electricity 63 Expired
US6044079A Statistical packet discard Electricity 27 Expired
US8837281B2 Use of partitions to reduce flooding and filtering database size requirements in large layer two networks Electricity 27 Active
US6104715A Merging of data cells in an ATM network Electricity 14 Expired
US8477600B2 Composite transport functions Electricity 14 Active
US7102997B2 Aggregate rate transparent LAN service for closed user groups over optical rings Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US8718071B2 Method to pass virtual local area network information in virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol Electricity 9 Active
US9160609B2 Virtual Layer 2 and mechanism to make it scalable Electricity 8 Active
US8238340B2 Transport multiplexer—mechanisms to force ethernet traffic from one domain to be switched in a different (external) domain Electricity 7 Active
US9014054B2 Layer two over multiple sites Electricity 6 Active
US8169912B2 System for dynamic bandwidth adjustment and trading among peers Electricity 3 Active
US8549178B2 Using provider backbone bridged network to reduce the number of media access control addresses visible to core bridges in the data center Electricity 3 Active
US7383354B2 Spatial reuse and multi-point interconnection in bridge-interconnected ring networks Electricity 2 Expired
US7599295B2 System for passive alarm propagation and suppression for packet based networks Electricity 2 Active
US8050270B2 Transparent bypass and associated mechanisms Electricity 2 Active
US8953621B2 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Electricity 2 Active
US7881192B2 System for providing aggregate-rate communication services Electricity 2 Active
US8005113B2 Encapsulating large Ethernet frames Electricity 2 Active
US8547999B2 Encapsulating large ethernet frames Electricity 1 Active
US8767530B2 Hierarchical processing and propagation of partial faults in a packet network Electricity 1 Active
US8140654B2 Verifying management virtual local area network identifier provisioning consistency Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8149837B2 Method of supporting an open provider backbone network Electricity 1 Active
US7817550B2 System for rate-control of aggregate-rate communication services Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8873566B2 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Electricity 1 Active

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