Inventor · Gaithersburg, MD, US

Robert T. Baum

29Patents
16h-index
7Co-inventors
70Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 27, 1998 → Dec 21, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6771673B1 Methods and apparatus and data structures for providing access to an edge router of a network Electricity 188 Expired
US6778525B1 Automated service provisioning in combination of vertical services and digital subscriber line domains Electricity 153 Expired
US6424657B1 Traffic queueing for remote terminal DSLAMs Electricity 135 Expired
US7042880B1 Congestion and throughput visibility and isolation Electricity 115 Expired
US6798751B1 Customer premises equipment for vertical services integration Electricity 113 Expired
US7320070B2 Methods and apparatus for protecting against IP address assignments based on a false MAC address Electricity 75 Expired
US6829250B2 Automatic programming of customer premises equipment for vertical services integration Electricity 58 Expired
US6993026B1 Methods, apparatus and data structures for preserving address and service level information in a virtual private network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US6904054B1 Support for quality of service and vertical services in digital subscriber line domain Electricity 55 Expired
US6456632B1 Protocol separation in packet communication Electricity 52 Expired
US6400707B1 Real time firewall security Electricity 52 Expired
US6850495B1 Methods, apparatus and data structures for segmenting customers using at least a portion of a layer 2 address header or bits in the place of a layer 2 address header Electricity 52 Expired
US7315554B2 Simple peering in a transport network employing novel edge devices Electricity 41 Expired
US7873985B2 IP based security applications using location, port and/or device identifier information Electricity 39 Active
US7170905B1 Vertical services integration enabled content distribution mechanisms Electricity 35 Expired
US7843923B2 Methods and apparatus for determining the port and/or physical location of an IP device and for using that information Electricity 33 Active
US7569762B2 RF-based dynamic remote control for audio effects devices or the like Physics 15 Active
US7843934B2 Methods and apparatus for providing emergency telephone service to IP-based telephone users Electricity 14 Active
US8402559B2 IP based security applications using location, port and/or device identifier information Electricity 12 Active
US7801158B2 Congestion and thru-put visibility and isolation Electricity 11 Active
US8087064B1 Security extensions using at least a portion of layer 2 information or bits in the place of layer 2 information Electricity 8 Expired
US7839802B2 Methods, apparatus and data structures for segmenting customers using at least a portion of a layer 2 address header or bits in the place of a layer 2 address header Electricity 5 Expired
US7836160B2 Methods and apparatus for wiretapping IP-based telephone lines Electricity 5 Active
US8885487B2 Congestion and thru-put visibility and isolation Electricity 3 Active
US7844814B2 Methods and apparatus for protecting against IP address assignments based on a false MAC address Electricity 3 Active

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