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Frank R. Dropps

QL Qlogic: 11 patents #1 of 48Top 3%
QP Qlogic Switch Products: 1 patents #1 of 2Top 50%
📍 Annandale, MN: #1 of 2 inventorsTop 50%
🗺 Minnesota: #40 of 5,843 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2011): #2,379 of 364,097Top 1%
12
Patents 2011

Issued Patents 2011

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8081650 Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches Edward C. Ross, William J. Gustafson 2011-12-20
8072988 Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre channel systems using virtual and/or pseudo virtual lanes Ernest G. Kohlwey, Edward C. Ross, Mark A. Owen 2011-12-06
8068482 Method and system for network switch element James A. Kunz, Edward C. Ross, Mark A. Owen, Craig M. Verba 2011-11-29
8050260 Method and system for load balancing in infiniband switches and networks Ian G. Colloff, James A. Kunz, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2011-11-01
8005105 Method and system for configuring fibre channel ports Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2011-08-23
7990975 Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre channel switch elements Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Edward C. Ross 2011-08-02
7983265 Method and system for processing a network packet 2011-07-19
7978695 Hardware-enforced loop and NPIV hard zoning for fibre channel switch fabric William R. George 2011-07-12
7936771 Method and system for routing fibre channel frames Gary M. Papenfuss 2011-05-03
7903558 Method and system for monitoring a network link in network systems Bret E. Indrelee 2011-03-08
7894348 Method and system for congestion control in a fibre channel switch Gary M. Papenfuss 2011-02-22
7876752 Method and system for partition based network routing Todd Rimmer, Thomas R. Prohofsky, Duane J. McCrory, Edward C. McGlaughlin 2011-01-25