Robert Thomas

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Lexington, MA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device
- Patent number 8,171,315
- Issue date May 1, 2012
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Roger Karam
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Technique for breaking loops in a communications network
- Patent number 7,969,898
- Issue date Jun 28, 2011
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Alex Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Differentiated routing using tunnels in a computer network
- Patent number 7,945,696
- Issue date May 17, 2011
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Jean-Philippe Vasseur
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for distributing label information
- Patent number 7,936,668
- Issue date May 3, 2011
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- James N. Guichard
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Acceleration of label distribution protocol (LDP) session setup
- Patent number 7,907,603
- Issue date Mar 15, 2011
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Bin Mo
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for minimizing duplicate traffic during point...
- Patent number 7,899,049
- Issue date Mar 1, 2011
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for distributing labels in a label distributio...
- Patent number 7,684,350
- Issue date Mar 23, 2010
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Graceful shutdown of LDP on specific interfaces between label switc...
- Patent number 7,646,772
- Issue date Jan 12, 2010
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Muthurajah Sivabalan
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device
- Patent number 7,613,939
- Issue date Nov 3, 2009
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Roger Karam
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) lab...
- Patent number 7,609,620
- Issue date Oct 27, 2009
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol...
- Patent number 7,286,529
- Issue date Oct 23, 2007
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Robert H. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for controlling a cooling fan within a computer s...
- Patent number 6,643,128
- Issue date Nov 4, 2003
- Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Herman W. Chu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Virtual LANs
- Patent number 6,560,236
- Issue date May 6, 2003
- Enterasys Networks, Inc.
- George Varghese
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol...
- Patent number 6,512,768
- Issue date Jan 28, 2003
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Robert H. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for performing TX raw cell status report frequ...
- Patent number 6,466,997
- Issue date Oct 15, 2002
- Enterasys Networks, Inc.
- Theodore L. Ross
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communicati...
- Patent number 6,337,851
- Issue date Jan 8, 2002
- Compaq Computer Corporation
- Anna Charny
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for performing raw cell status report frequenc...
- Patent number 6,212,567
- Issue date Apr 3, 2001
- Compaq Computer Corporation
- Robert E. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Non-zero minimum cell rate for available bit rate ATM service
- Patent number 6,167,049
- Issue date Dec 26, 2000
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Tong-Bi Pei
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communicati...
- Patent number 6,108,305
- Issue date Aug 22, 2000
- Compaq Computer Corporation
- Anna Charny
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for avoiding control reads in a network node
- Patent number 6,067,563
- Issue date May 23, 2000
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for scheduling virtual circuit data for DMA fr...
- Patent number 5,995,995
- Issue date Nov 30, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for performing look-ahead scheduling of DMA tr...
- Patent number 5,970,229
- Issue date Oct 19, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for performing TX raw cell status report frequ...
- Patent number 5,966,546
- Issue date Oct 12, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Device for partitioning ports of a bridge into groups of different...
- Patent number 5,963,556
- Issue date Oct 5, 1999
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- George Varghese
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Transmit data FIFO for flow controlled data
- Patent number 5,960,215
- Issue date Sep 28, 1999
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Robert E. Thomas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for transferring data from a transmit buffer m...
- Patent number 5,941,952
- Issue date Aug 24, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for avoiding control reads in a network node
- Patent number 5,922,046
- Issue date Jul 13, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System for achieving scalable router performance
- Patent number 5,905,723
- Issue date May 18, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- George Varghese
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for controlling congestion in a network node
- Patent number 5,867,480
- Issue date Feb 2, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for performing raw cell status report frequenc...
- Patent number 5,862,206
- Issue date Jan 19, 1999
- Cabletron Systems, Inc.
- Robert E. Thomas
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING POWER CLASS FOR A POWERED DEVICE
- Publication number 20100049998
- Publication date Feb 25, 2010
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Roger Karam
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DIFFERENTIATED ROUTING USING TUNNELS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK
- Publication number 20090144443
- Publication date Jun 4, 2009
- Jean-Philippe Vasseur
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
ACCELERATION OF LABEL DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL (LDP) SESSION SETUP
- Publication number 20080267175
- Publication date Oct 30, 2008
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Bin Mo
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Methods and apparatus for minimizing duplicate traffic during point...
- Publication number 20080031130
- Publication date Feb 7, 2008
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device
- Publication number 20070220280
- Publication date Sep 20, 2007
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Roger Karam
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for distributing labels in a label distributio...
- Publication number 20070217420
- Publication date Sep 20, 2007
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Methods and apparatus for implementing protection for multicast ser...
- Publication number 20070174483
- Publication date Jul 26, 2007
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) lab...
- Publication number 20070036072
- Publication date Feb 15, 2007
- Alex E. Raj
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Methods and apparatus for distributing label information
- Publication number 20060268853
- Publication date Nov 30, 2006
- James N. Guichard
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Graceful shutdown of LDP on specific interfaces between label switc...
- Publication number 20060034251
- Publication date Feb 16, 2006
- Cisco Techology, Inc.
- Muthurajah Sivabalan
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and system for controlling a cooling fan within a computer s...
- Publication number 20030011984
- Publication date Jan 16, 2003
- Herman W. Chu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Robert Thomas

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device

Technique for breaking loops in a communications network

Differentiated routing using tunnels in a computer network

Methods and apparatus for distributing label information

Acceleration of label distribution protocol (LDP) session setup

Methods and apparatus for minimizing duplicate traffic during point...

Method and apparatus for distributing labels in a label distributio...

Graceful shutdown of LDP on specific interfaces between label switc...

Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device

Method and apparatus using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) lab...

Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol...

Method and system for controlling a cooling fan within a computer s...

Virtual LANs

Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol...

Method and apparatus for performing TX raw cell status report frequ...

Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communicati...

Method and apparatus for performing raw cell status report frequenc...

Non-zero minimum cell rate for available bit rate ATM service

Method and apparatus for relative error scheduling in a communicati...

Method and apparatus for avoiding control reads in a network node

Apparatus and method for scheduling virtual circuit data for DMA fr...

Apparatus and method for performing look-ahead scheduling of DMA tr...

Method and apparatus for performing TX raw cell status report frequ...

Device for partitioning ports of a bridge into groups of different...

Transmit data FIFO for flow controlled data

Apparatus and method for transferring data from a transmit buffer m...

Method and apparatus for avoiding control reads in a network node

System for achieving scalable router performance

Method and apparatus for controlling congestion in a network node

Method and apparatus for performing raw cell status report frequenc...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING POWER CLASS FOR A POWERED DEVICE

DIFFERENTIATED ROUTING USING TUNNELS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK

ACCELERATION OF LABEL DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL (LDP) SESSION SETUP

Methods and apparatus for minimizing duplicate traffic during point...

Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device

Method and apparatus for distributing labels in a label distributio...

Methods and apparatus for implementing protection for multicast ser...

Method and apparatus using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) lab...

Methods and apparatus for distributing label information

Graceful shutdown of LDP on specific interfaces between label switc...

Method and system for controlling a cooling fan within a computer s...