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Methods and systems for an out-of-credit timer in a network device
Patent number
9,094,294
Issue date
Jul 28, 2015
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for network switch element
Patent number
8,873,546
Issue date
Oct 28, 2014
Qlogic, Corporation
James A. Kunz
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre cha...
Patent number
8,644,317
Issue date
Feb 4, 2014
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Emulation of multiple MDIO manageable devices
Patent number
8,200,473
Issue date
Jun 12, 2012
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Grant
Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel swit...
Patent number
8,081,650
Issue date
Dec 20, 2011
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Grant
Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre cha...
Patent number
8,072,988
Issue date
Dec 6, 2011
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for network switch element
Patent number
8,068,482
Issue date
Nov 29, 2011
Qlogic, Corporation
James A. Kunz
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre cha...
Patent number
7,990,975
Issue date
Aug 2, 2011
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Grant
Method and system for routing and filtering network data packets in...
Patent number
7,792,115
Issue date
Sep 7, 2010
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems
Patent number
7,760,752
Issue date
Jul 20, 2010
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Grant
Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre cha...
Patent number
7,684,401
Issue date
Mar 23, 2010
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for distributing credit in fibre channel systems
Patent number
7,630,384
Issue date
Dec 8, 2009
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for routing network information
Patent number
7,613,816
Issue date
Nov 3, 2009
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for LUN remapping in fibre channel networks
Patent number
7,593,997
Issue date
Sep 22, 2009
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Method and system for checking frame-length in fibre channel frames
Patent number
7,548,560
Issue date
Jun 16, 2009
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel swit...
Patent number
7,525,983
Issue date
Apr 28, 2009
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and system for detecting congestion and over subscription in...
Patent number
7,522,529
Issue date
Apr 21, 2009
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Grant
Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems
Patent number
7,406,092
Issue date
Jul 29, 2008
Qlogic, Corporation
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK SWITCH ELEMENT
Publication number
20120069839
Publication date
Mar 22, 2012
QLOGIC, Corporation
James A. Kunz
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUFFER-TO-BUFFER CREDIT RECOVERY IN FIBRE CHA...
Publication number
20100128607
Publication date
May 27, 2010
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK SWITCH ELEMENT
Publication number
20100118880
Publication date
May 13, 2010
James A. Kunz
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING VIRTUAL LANES IN FIBRE CHANNEL SWIT...
Publication number
20090316592
Publication date
Dec 24, 2009
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
PROGRAMMABLE PSEUDO VIRTUAL LANES FOR FIBRE CHANNEL SYSTEMS
Publication number
20080310306
Publication date
Dec 18, 2008
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
Method and system for LUN remapping in fibre channel networks
Publication number
20060072616
Publication date
Apr 6, 2006
Frank R. Dropps
G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Patent Application
Method and system for routing and filtering network data packets in...
Publication number
20050044267
Publication date
Feb 24, 2005
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
Method and system for detecting congestion and over subscription in...
Publication number
20050030893
Publication date
Feb 10, 2005
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre cha...
Publication number
20050018674
Publication date
Jan 27, 2005
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems
Publication number
20050018676
Publication date
Jan 27, 2005
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre cha...
Publication number
20050018673
Publication date
Jan 27, 2005
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Patent Application
Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel swit...
Publication number
20050018621
Publication date
Jan 27, 2005
Frank R. Dropps
H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE