Inventor · Downers Grove, IL, US

T. Benjamin Mack-Crane

36Patents
7h-index
13Co-inventors
62Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 31, 2003 → May 14, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7889675B2 Method and system for multi-layer network routing Electricity 43 Active
US8837281B2 Use of partitions to reduce flooding and filtering database size requirements in large layer two networks Electricity 27 Active
US7301911B2 Method and system for multi-layer network routing Electricity 19 Expired
US8477600B2 Composite transport functions Electricity 14 Active
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
US7821946B2 Method and system for multi-layer network routing Electricity 7 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
US8885643B2 Method for multicast flow routing selection Electricity 5 Active
US10367730B2 Layer two over multiple sites Electricity 5 Active
US8665746B2 Method for measuring throughput for a packet connection Electricity 5 Active
US9130875B2 Method and system for multi-layer network routing Electricity 4 Active
US8125891B2 Method and system for multi-layer network routing Electricity 4 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
US7983182B2 Methods and apparatus for exchanging network connectivity and capability information Electricity 3 Active
US8050270B2 Transparent bypass and associated mechanisms Electricity 2 Active
US9294395B2 Media access control bridging in a mesh network Electricity 2 Active
US8953621B2 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Electricity 2 Active
US8873566B2 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Electricity 1 Active
US9973429B2 Software defined networking (SDN) controller orchestration and network virtualization for data center interconnection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8345542B2 Method of M:1 protection Electricity 1 Active
US8451842B2 Media access control bridging in a mesh network Electricity 1 Active
US8140654B2 Verifying management virtual local area network identifier provisioning consistency Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8442072B2 Method of preventing transport leaks in hybrid switching networks by extension of the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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