Inventor · Wheaton, IL, US

Ronald A. Spanke

24Patents
21h-index
27Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 13, 1987 → Mar 24, 1997

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5428607A Intra-switch communications in narrow band ATM networks Electricity 318 Expired
US5280470A Bandwidth and congestion management in accessing broadband Electricity 256 Expired
US5452297A Access switches for large ATM networks Electricity 252 Expired
US5422882A ATM networks for narrow band communications Electricity 252 Expired
US5426636A ATM distribution networks for narrow band communications Electricity 215 Expired
US5390175A Inter-cell switching unit for narrow band ATM networks Electricity 165 Expired
US5428609A STM-to-ATM converters Electricity 123 Expired
US5438565A Packet switch to provide code division, multiple access cellular service Electricity 97 Expired
US5115427A Arrangements for switching multiple packet types combined in a single packet stream Electricity 91 Expired
US5434854A System for communicating digital cellular data between a cell site and a switching system or another cell site Electricity 89 Expired
US5363369A System for inter packet community communication Electricity 87 Expired
US5115426A Broadband Electricity 69 Expired
US5233606A Arrangement for controlling shared-buffer-memory overflow in a multi-priority environment Electricity 68 Expired
US5434853A System and method for providing soft handoff of a cellular mobile-to-mobile call Electricity 64 Expired
US4787692A Electro optical switch architectures Electricity 45 Expired
US5473604A Method for avoiding node overload in a packet switching network Electricity 41 Expired
US5287347A Arrangement for bounding jitter in a priority-based switching system Electricity 38 Expired
US4891803A Packet switching network Electricity 32 Expired
US5691985A System and method for increasing throughput of inter-network gateways using a hardware assist engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US4899335A Self routing packet switching network architecture Electricity 26 Expired
US5953330A Communication switch Electricity 25 Expired
US5278969A Queue-length monitoring arrangement for detecting consistency between duplicate memories Physics 20 Expired
US5402256A Optical time slot interchanger apparatus and method of operation Electricity 15 Expired
US5572350A Method and apparatus to compensate for differential attenuation in an optical time slot interchanger Electricity 14 Expired

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