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Mark A. Ratcliffe — 40 Patents

ATAT&T: 40 patents #329 of 18,772Top 2%
APAcme Packet: 1 patents #22 of 38Top 60%
Oakhurst, NJ: #1 of 59 inventorsTop 2%
New Jersey: #1,369 of 69,400 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Mark A. Ratcliffe has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in April 2023. Mark A. Ratcliffe ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Mark A. Ratcliffe in Oakhurst, NJ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 41999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents2010: 2 patents20102012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11637761 Systems and methods to deploy cloud-native microservices for communication services on scale Chaoxin Qiu, Min Lu, Eric Ashby, Arshad Khan 2023-04-25 $39,222,000
11431587 Systems and methods to deploy cloud-native microservices for communication services on scale Chaoxin Qiu, Min Lu, Eric Ashby, Arshad Khan 2022-08-30 $36,633,000
11003516 Geographical redundancy and dynamic scaling for virtual network functions Chaoxin Qiu, Robert F. Dailey, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2021-05-11 $66,208,000
10887404 Method and apparatus for virtualized network function chaining management Chaoxin Qiu, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2021-01-05 $25,728,000
10659427 Call processing continuity within a cloud network Chaoxin Qiu 2020-05-19 $29,099,000
10511480 Message flow management for virtual networks Chaoxin Qiu, Robert F. Dailey, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2019-12-17 $44,947,000
10432736 Method and apparatus for virtualized network function chaining management Chaoxin Qiu, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2019-10-01 $45,252,000
10212035 Message flow management for virtual networks Chaoxin Qiu, Robert F. Dailey, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2019-02-19 $47,313,000
9930127 Method and apparatus for virtualized network function chaining management Chaoxin Qiu, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2018-03-27 $39,270,000
9872328 Updating connectivity with a communication network and methods thereof Chaoxin Qiu 2018-01-16 $46,076,000
9854005 Methods and apparatus for providing network based services to non-registering endpoints Min Lu, Martin Dolly, Leticia Johnson 2017-12-26 $43,296,000
9674639 Method and apparatus for virtualized network function chaining management Chaoxin Qiu, Jeffrey L. Scruggs 2017-06-06 $43,154,000
9571528 Method and apparatus for providing network based services to non-registering endpoints Min Lu, Martin Dolly, Leticia Johnson 2017-02-14 $26,779,000
9544940 Updating connectivity with a communication network and methods thereof Chaoxin Qiu 2017-01-10 $34,589,000
9462049 Method and apparatus for providing a centralized subscriber load distribution Eric Noel 2016-10-04 $21,550,000
9379914 Method and system for implementing aggregate endpoints on IMS networks Min Lu, Martin Dolly, Saul Daniel Fishman, Gerald L. Hoover, Tienyu Chiu +4 more 2016-06-28 $29,910,000
9071527 Method and apparatus for providing a centralized subscriber load distribution Eric Noel 2015-06-30 $20,830,000
8812700 Method and apparatus for providing network based services to non-registering endpoints Min Lu, Martin Dolly, Leticia Johnson 2014-08-19 $10,940,000
8792480 IMS and method of multiple S-CSCF operation in support of single PUID Min Lu 2014-07-29 $25,896,000
8787360 Method and apparatus for processing multiple services per call John Carl Brown, Koan S. Chong, Robert Yaeger Peters, Jr., Harish Samarasinghe 2014-07-22 $15,465,000
8700786 Systems and methods for termination of session initiation protocol Koan S. Chong, James R. Dobbins 2014-04-15 $15,010,000
8547965 Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide uniform resource identifier portability Min Lu, Yi-Lon Chin, Gerald L. Hoover, Leopold Strahs 2013-10-01 $15,527,000
8533340 IP multimedia subsystem virtual call/session control functions Gerald L. Hoover, Min Lu 2013-09-10 $14,781,000
8369313 IMS and method of multiple S-CSCF operation in support of single PUID Min Lu 2013-02-05 $20,837,000
8339956 Method and apparatus for providing a centralized subscriber load distribution Eric Noel 2012-12-25