Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Thomas Eric Ryle

16Patents
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32Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 22, 1997 → Apr 14, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6144668A Simultaneous cut through and store-and-forward frame support in a network device Electricity 145 Expired
US6064674A Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Electricity 80 Expired
US6035360A Multi-port SRAM access control using time division multiplexed arbitration Physics 51 Expired
US6272134A Multicast frame support in hardware routing assist Electricity 40 Expired
US6970468B2 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Electricity 19 Expired
US7672323B2 Dynamic and intelligent buffer management for SAN extension Electricity 19 Active
US7020814B2 Method and system for emulating a Fiber Channel link over a SONET/SDH path Electricity 19 Expired
US7515593B2 Method and system for efficient flow control for client data frames over GFP across a SONET/SDH transport path Electricity 10 Expired
US7653526B1 Method and system for emulating an ethernet link over a sonet path Electricity 8 Expired
US10033636B1 Ethernet segment aware MAC address learning Electricity 6 Active
US10158567B1 PBB-EVPN customer MAC synchronization among all-active multi-homing PEs Electricity 4 Active
US7565442B1 Method and system for supporting distance extension in networks having Y-cable protection Electricity 2 Active
US7403532B2 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Electricity 2 Active
US6944164B2 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Electricity 1 Expired
US7653066B2 Method and apparatus for guaranteed in-order delivery for FICON over SONET/SDH transport Electricity 0 Active
US7568026B2 Method and system for efficient link recovery for fibre channel over SONET/SDH transport path Electricity 0 Active

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