Thomas A. Manning
40Patents
25h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 18, 1996 → Sep 17, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.