Inventor · Boxborough, MA, US

Thomas Hoch

12Patents
6h-index
20Co-inventors
62Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 8, 1994 → Apr 9, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6078595A Timing synchronization and switchover in a network switch Electricity 99 Expired
US7058010B2 Controlled switchover of unicast and multicast data flows in a packet based switching system Electricity 38 Expired
US6894969B1 Apparatus and method for redundancy of processing modules interfaced to a switching core Electricity 22 Expired
US7304944B2 Unified scheduling and queueing architecture for a multiservice switch Electricity 16 Active
US7180867B2 Apparatus and method for flow path based fault detection and service restoration in a packet based switching system Electricity 15 Expired
US6667959B1 Switch fabric testing Electricity 10 Expired
US7152567B2 Piston for an internal combustion engine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 5 Expired
US5630391A Piston with pin boss cooling Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 3 Expired
US7971566B2 Piston for an internal combustion engine and method for its production Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US8665719B2 Variable packet-size backplanes for switching and routing systems Electricity 0 Active
US8213421B2 Methods and systems for efficient multicast across a mesh backplane Electricity 0 Active
US9020321B2 Wall outlet having enclosed service connection Physics 0 Active

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