Inventor · Windsor, CA, US

Ryan E. Hirth

47Patents
8h-index
55Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 30, 1996 → Sep 18, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6192071A Detecting overequalization for adapting equalization and offset for data transmissions Electricity 44 Expired
US8548327B2 Dynamic management of polling rates in an ethernet passive optical network (EPON) Electricity 22 Active
US7152199B2 Method and apparatus for delineating data in an FEC-coded Ethernet frame Electricity 18 Expired
US7349537B2 Method for data encryption in an ethernet passive optical network Electricity 13 Expired
US6564333B1 Peripheral device power management circuit and method for selecting between main and auxiliary power sources or from third power source Physics 12 Expired
US6222876A Detecting valid data patterns for adapting equalization gain and offset for data transmissions Electricity 12 Expired
US8498534B2 Epon with power-saving features Electricity 10 Active
US8335235B2 Methods and apparatus for extending MAC control message in EPON Electricity 9 Active
US9252809B2 Using FEC statistics to tune serdes Electricity 8 Active
US7590139B2 Method and apparatus for accommodating TDM traffic in an ethernet passive optical network Electricity 7 Active
US6118815A Adapting equalization gain and offset for data transmissions Electricity 7 Expired
US7660528B2 Method and system for mitigating Raman crosstalk in an Ethernet passive optical network Electricity 5 Active
US8600234B2 Method and apparatus for link sharing among multiple epons Electricity 4 Active
US5663634A Startup network for a flyback converter with linear regulation Physics 3 Expired
US8942560B2 Ethernet passive optical network with report threshold calculations Electricity 3 Active
US7525982B2 Method and apparatus for facilitating asymmetric line rates in an Ethernet passive optical network Electricity 3 Active
US7929576B2 Method and system for accommodating different clock frequencies in an ethernet passive optical network Electricity 3 Active
US8494364B2 Supporting multi-dwelling units in passive optical networks Electricity 2 Active
US8913887B2 Passive optical fiber plant analysis Electricity 2 Active
US8548323B2 Daisy chainable ONU Electricity 2 Active
US9319236B2 Optical line terminal (OLT) system Electricity 1 Active
US8964538B2 Method and apparatus for supporting differentiated performance for multiple categories of packets in a passive optical network Electricity 1 Active
US9450705B2 Method and apparatus for detecting frame delimiters in Ethernet passive optical networks with forward error correction Electricity 1 Active
US9231722B2 Multi-port channelized optical line terminal Electricity 1 Active
US8787758B2 Supporting multi-dwelling units in passive optical networks Electricity 1 Active

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