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William D. Townsend — 7 Patents

3C3Com: 7 patents #118 of 1,190Top 10%
Groton, MA: #89 of 413 inventorsTop 25%
Massachusetts: #18,077 of 88,656 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
William D. Townsend has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Com. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2002. William D. Townsend ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list William D. Townsend in Groton, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6397260 Automatic load sharing for network routers Joris Wils, James Scott Hiscock 2002-05-28 $2,516,000
6205149 Quality of service control mechanism and apparatus Thomas Lemaire, Paul J. Giacobbe, John A. Flanders, David Lipschutz, Leonard Schwartz +1 more 2001-03-20 $6,722,000
6185214 Use of code vectors for frame forwarding in a bridge/router Leonard Schwartz, John A. Flanders, David C. Ready 2001-02-06 $9,236,000
6172980 Multiple protocol support John A. Flanders, Ryan T. Ross, Thomas A. Lamaire, Thomas V. Radogna, Brian Bailey +1 more 2001-01-09 $23,882,000
6115379 Unicast, multicast, and broadcast method and apparatus John A. Flanders, Ryan T. Ross, Thomas Lemaire, Thomas V. Radogna, Robert A. Ciampa +1 more 2000-09-05 $19,057,000
6041058 Hardware filtering method and apparatus John A. Flanders, David C. Ready, Steven Van Seters, Leonard Schwartz 2000-03-21 $200,320,000
5978378 Method and apparatus for VLAN support Stephen L. Van Seters, Ryan T. Ross, Leonard Schwartz, David C. Ready, John A. Flanders +1 more 1999-11-02 $33,569,000