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William Paul Sherer — 15 Patents

3C3Com: 12 patents #45 of 1,250Top 4%
Cisco: 1 patents #7,948 of 13,007Top 65%
UAUS Army: 1 patents #2,854 of 6,974Top 45%
Huntsville, AL: #74 of 1,894 inventorsTop 4%
Alabama: #378 of 10,951 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
William Paul Sherer has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Com. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in October 2013. William Paul Sherer ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list William Paul Sherer in Huntsville, AL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1999.peak 41985: 1 patents19851996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents19971999: 4 patents19992000: 4 patents20002001: 1 patents20012005: 1 patents20052013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8565318 Restamping transport streams to avoid vertical rolls Glenn Connery, Andrew Palfreyman, Hoi-Tauw Chou 2013-10-22 $41,818,000
6925078 Network adaptor driver with destination based ordering Glenn Connery 2005-08-02 $5,768,000
6311218 Method and apparatus for providing security in a star network connection using public key cryptography Vipin Jain, Danny M. Nessett 2001-10-30 $4,494,000
6115776 Network and adaptor with time-based and packet number based interrupt combinations Richard S. Reid, Glenn Connery 2000-09-05 $19,057,000
6101554 Apparatus for controlling data flow using lookup tables to link incoming packets directly to output ports Tadhg Creedon, Anne O'Connell, Eugene O'Neill, Vincent Gavin, John Hickey +1 more 2000-08-08 $59,264,000
6026095 Method and apparatus for controlling latency and jitter in shared CSMA/CD (repeater) environment Wen Tang, Ismail Dalgic, Peter Wang 2000-02-15 $116,830,000
6021495 Method and apparatus for authentication process of a star or hub network connection ports by detecting interruption in link beat Vipin Jain, Danny M. Nessett 2000-02-01 $140,742,000
5968176 Multilayer firewall system Danny M. Nessett 1999-10-19 $65,492,000
5935245 Method and apparatus for providing secure network communications 1999-08-10 $37,848,000
5875175 Method and apparatus for time-based download control David R. Brown, Richard S. Reid, Glenn Connery, Chi-Lie Wang 1999-02-23 $53,299,000
5875176 Network adaptor driver with destination based ordering Glenn Connery 1999-02-23 $53,299,000
5640605 Method and apparatus for synchronized transmission of data between a network adaptor and multiple transmission channels using a shared clocking frequency and multilevel data encoding Howard W. Johnson, Sandeep Arvindkumar Patel, J.R. Rivers 1997-06-17 $120,395,000
5568469 Method and apparatus for controlling latency and jitter in a local area network which uses a CSMA/CD protocol Lai-Chin Lo, John Hickey 1996-10-22 $66,568,000
5568476 Method and apparatus for avoiding packet loss on a CSMA/CD-type local area network using receive-sense-based jam signal Richard A. Gahan, John Hickey 1996-10-22 $66,568,000
4514684 Acoustic waveguide voltage monitor Kenton L. Haynes, Hugh W. Greene, James D. Holder, Thomas G. Roberts 1985-04-30