Inventor · Plano, TX, US

Thomas C. McDermott, III

17Patents
11h-index
20Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 2, 1979 → Sep 21, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6856676B1 System and method of controlling and managing voice and data services in a telecommunications network Electricity 272 Expired
US6879559B1 Router line card protection using one-for-N redundancy Electricity 94 Expired
US7613183B1 System and method for router data aggregation and delivery Electricity 63 Expired
US5428471A Fail-safe automatic shut-down apparatus and method for high output power optical communications system Electricity 62 Expired
US7046746B1 Adaptive Viterbi decoder for a wireless data network receiver Electricity 46 Expired
US7324500B1 Router network protection using multiple facility interfaces Electricity 33 Expired
US4549283A Digital time delay circuit with high speed and large delay capacity Physics 33 Expired
US6894970B1 Router switch fabric protection using forward error correction Electricity 30 Expired
US4254492A Redundant clock system utilizing nonsynchronous oscillators Physics 28 Expired
US7426249B2 Adaptive Viterbi decoder for a wireless data network receiver Electricity 17 Active
US6993024B1 System and method for router multicast control Electricity 11 Expired
US4567587A Multiplex equipment monitoring apparatus Electricity 9 Expired
US7058315B2 Fast decision threshold controller for burst-mode receiver Electricity 8 Expired
US7814368B2 Adjusting threshold for software error reset attempts to be commensurate with reserve power Physics 7 Active
US4602367A Method and apparatus for framing and demultiplexing multiplexed digital data Electricity 4 Expired
US8315175B2 Router switch fabric protection using forward error correction Electricity 0 Active
US8279879B1 System and method for router data aggregation and delivery Electricity 0 Active

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