Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Shashank Merchant

186Patents
32h-index
77Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 6, 1996 → May 13, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9510044B1 TV content segmentation, categorization and identification and time-aligned applications Electricity 383 Active
US6108306A Apparatus and method in a network switch for dynamically allocating bandwidth in ethernet workgroup switches Electricity 201 Expired
US8171030B2 Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional content search and video identification Physics 144 Active
US8655878B1 Scalable, adaptable, and manageable system for multimedia identification Physics 125 Active
US8335786B2 Multi-media content identification using multi-level content signature correlation and fast similarity search Physics 123 Active
US9323754B2 Media fingerprinting and identification system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 116 Active
US8195689B2 Media fingerprinting and identification system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Active
US8364703B2 Media fingerprinting and identification system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Active
US5995488A Method and apparatus for regulating data flow in networks Electricity 108 Expired
US8229227B2 Methods and apparatus for providing a scalable identification of digital video sequences Physics 108 Active
US6460088B1 Method and apparatus for port vector determination at egress Electricity 96 Expired
US6405258B1 Method and apparatus for controlling the flow of data frames through a network switch on a port-by-port basis Electricity 94 Expired
US6081523A Arrangement for transmitting packet data segments from a media access controller across multiple physical links Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Expired
US6744776B1 Servicing priority traffic in multiport network switch Electricity 70 Expired
US5852723A Method and apparatus for prioritizing traffic in half-duplex networks Electricity 65 Expired
US6535489B1 Method and apparatus in a network switch for handling link failure and link recovery in a trunked data path Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US6775290B1 Multiport network switch supporting multiple VLANs per port Electricity 64 Expired
US6442137B1 Apparatus and method in a network switch for swapping memory access slots between gigabit port and expansion port Electricity 60 Expired
US10506275B1 Dynamic control of fingerprinting rate to facilitate time-accurate revision of media content Electricity 59 Active
US9313359B1 Media content identification on mobile devices Physics 57 Active
US6515993B1 Method and apparatus for manipulating VLAN tags Electricity 56 Expired
US7027437B1 Network switch multiple-port sniffing Electricity 56 Expired
US6813266B1 Pipelined access to address table in a network switch Electricity 56 Expired
US6222825A Arrangement for determining link latency for maintaining flow control in full-duplex networks Electricity 54 Expired
US5905870A Arrangement for initiating and maintaining flow control in shared-medium, full-duplex, and switched networks Electricity 52 Expired

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