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Michael J. Seaman — 29 Patents

3C3Com: 15 patents #31 of 1,250Top 3%
DEDigital Equipment: 12 patents #49 of 2,100Top 3%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Michael J. Seaman has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Com. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in August 2005. Michael J. Seaman ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Michael J. Seaman in Yateley, CA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1996.peak 61992: 1 patents19921993: 2 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 4 patents1996: 6 patents19961997: 3 patents1998: 3 patents19982001: 3 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents2005: 2 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6934263 Spanning tree with protocol for bypassing port state transition timers 2005-08-23 $4,046,000
6882630 Spanning tree with rapid propagation of topology changes 2005-04-19 $2,046,000
6826158 Broadband tree-configured ring for metropolitan area networks Vipin Jain 2004-11-30
6771610 Spanning tree with protocol for bypassing port state transition timers 2004-08-03 $2,433,000
6680917 Spanning tree with rapid propagation of topology changes 2004-01-20 $6,580,000
6611502 Spanning tree with rapid propagation of topology changes 2003-08-26 $3,498,000
6330229 Spanning tree with rapid forwarding database updates Vipin Jain 2001-12-11 $4,250,000
6262977 High availability spanning tree with rapid reconfiguration Vipin Jain 2001-07-17 $5,788,000
6195349 Scalable logical LAN James Scott Hiscock, Joris Wils, Edward A. Heiner, Jr., G. Stodel Friedman, John Joseph Harrison, Jr. 2001-02-27 $11,802,000
5828835 High throughput message passing process using latency and reliability classes Mark S. Isfeld, Tracy D. Mallory, Bruce W. Mitchell, Nagaraj Arunkumar, Pyda Srisuresh 1998-10-27 $52,749,000
5802278 Bridge/router architecture for high performance scalable networking Mark S. Isfeld, Tracy D. Mallory, Bruce W. Mitchell, Nagaraj Arunkumar 1998-09-01 $26,111,000
5790808 Active topology maintenance in reconfiguring bridged local area networks with state transition with forgetting interval 1998-08-04 $114,386,000
5644571 Apparatus for message filtering in a network using domain class 1997-07-01 $61,416,000
5615382 Data transfer system for buffering and selectively manipulating the size of data blocks being transferred between a processor and a system bus of a computer system Vincent Gavin, Neal Crook, Bipin Mistry 1997-03-25 $12,396,000
5592622 Network intermediate system with message passing architecture Mark S. Isfeld, Bruce W. Mitchell, Tracy D. Mallory, Nagaraj Arunkumar 1997-01-07 $140,875,000
5590366 Packet forwarding system for measuring the age of data packets flowing through a computer network Stewart Frederick Bryant, Christopher R. Szmidt 1996-12-31 $22,931,000
5590285 Network station with multiple network addresses Jeffrey Krause, Niles E. Strohl, Steven Paul Russell, John H. Hart 1996-12-31 $144,145,000
5535338 Multifunction network station with network addresses for functional units Jeffrey Krause, Niles E. Strohl, Steven Paul Russell, John H. Hart 1996-07-09 $43,931,000
5526489 System for reverse address resolution for remote network device independent of its physical address Chandrasekharan Nilakantan, Ly Loi, Nagaraj Arunkumar 1996-06-11 $30,751,000
5524254 Scheme for interlocking line card to an address recognition engine to support plurality of routing and bridging protocols by using network information look-up database Fearghal Morgan, Joseph O'Callaghan, John Rigby, Andrew J. Walton, Una Quinlan +1 more 1996-06-04 $19,530,000
5519858 Address recognition engine with look-up database for storing network information Andrew J. Walton, Una Quinlan, Stewart Frederick Bryant, John Rigby, Fearghal Morgan +1 more 1996-05-21 $17,804,000
5471632 System for transferring data between a processor and a system bus including a device which packs, unpacks, or buffers data blocks being transferred Vincent Gavin, Neal Crook, Bipin Mistry 1995-11-28 $16,301,000
5428766 Error detection scheme in a multiprocessor environment 1995-06-27 $4,648,000
5404474 Apparatus and method for addressing a variable sized block of memory Neal Crook, Stewart Frederick Bryant, John M. Lenthall 1995-04-04 $8,753,000
5386523 Addressing scheme for accessing a portion of a large memory space Neal Crook, David L. A. Brash 1995-01-31 $7,799,000