Inventor · Marlborough, MA, US

Thomas A. Manning

40Patents
25h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 18, 1996 → Sep 17, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5748629A Allocated and dynamic bandwidth management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 279 Expired
US5889956A Hierarchical resource management with maximum allowable allocation boundaries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 149 Expired
US5850395A Asynchronous transfer mode based service consolidation switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 130 Expired
US5872769A Linked list structures for multiple levels of control in an ATM switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 118 Expired
US5978359A Allocated and dynamic switch flow control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 114 Expired
US5982771A Controlling bandwidth allocation using a pace counter Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 87 Expired
US5790770A Method and apparatus for reducing information loss in a communications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Expired
US5870538A Switch fabric controller comparator system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 74 Expired
US5867663A Method and system for controlling network service parameters in a cell based communications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US6628668B1 Crosspoint switch bandwidth allocation management Electricity 63 Expired
US5982776A Multipoint-to-point arbitration in a network switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Expired
US5996019A Network link access scheduling using a plurality of prioritized lists containing queue identifiers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Expired
US5956342A Priority arbitration for point-to-point and multipoint transmission Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Expired
US6426957B1 Asynchronous transfer mode based service consolidation switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US5909427A Redundant switch system and method of operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Expired
US5787086A Method and apparatus for emulating a circuit connection in a cell based communications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US6256674A Method and apparatus for providing buffer state flow control at the link level in addition to flow control on a per-connection basis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US5933429A Multipoint-to-multipoint echo processing in a network switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US6115748A Prioritized access to shared buffers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US6452903B1 Network switch supporting rate-based and credit-based flow control mechanisms on a link-by-link basis Electricity 44 Expired
US6088736A Joint flow control mechanism in a telecommunications network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Expired
US5983260A Serial control and data interconnects for coupling an I/O module with a switch fabric in a switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US6141346A Point-to-multipoint transmission using subqueues Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US6002667A Minimum guaranteed cell rate method and apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US5822540A Method and apparatus for discarding frames in a communications device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired

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