Alexander A. Smith — 15 Patents at Ciena

Alexander A. Smith has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2021. Alexander A. Smith ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Alexander A. Smith in Carrollton, TX, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
11146073	System and method for optimization of engines on a common variable frequency bus	Mike Snopko, Perry D. Converse, David M. Miller	2021-10-12	$86,676,000
8774232	Systems and methods of measuring latency and routing thereon in optical networks	Vagish Madrahalli, Richard Conklin	2014-07-08	$4,138,000
8682158	Systems and methods for detecting line flapping in optical networks	Xiaoning Zhu, Iwan Kartawira, Hongxing Meng	2014-03-25	$7,295,000
8572485	Splitting and merging routing domains	Vagish Madrahalli	2013-10-29	$12,601,000
8553586	Systems and methods for automatically building and repairing a spanning tree flooding backbone in link state routed networks	John K. Oltman	2013-10-08	$6,986,000
8417111	Optical network in-band control plane signaling, virtualized channels, and tandem connection monitoring systems and methods	Jeffrey Scott Moynihan, Iwan Kartawira, Vagish Madrahalli, Kumaresh Malli, Purushothaman Saravanan	2013-04-09	$9,580,000
8089866	Spanning tree flooding backbone systems and methods for link state routed networks	John K. Oltman	2012-01-03	$8,549,000
7554975	Protocol agnostic switching	—	2009-06-30	$20,585,000
7245585	Method and system for transmitting traffic in a virtual tunnel of a transmission line	Edward T. Sullivan, Guoliang Wu	2007-07-17
6700868	Switching redundancy control	Masahiro Shinbashi, Edward Y. Qian, Daniel Mieczkowski, David X. Chen	2004-03-02
6658006	System and method for communicating data using modified header bits to identify a port	David X. Chen, Edward T. Sullivan, Gary F. Chard	2003-12-02
6370115	Ethernet device and method for applying back pressure	—	2002-04-09	$29,598,000
6359858	Switching redundancy control	Masahiro Shinbashi, Edward Y. Qian, Daniel Mieczkowski, David X. Chen	2002-03-19
5604742	Communications system and method for efficient management of bandwidth in a FDDI station	Michel Colmant, William A. McIntosh	1997-02-18	$16,348,000
5519701	Architecture for high performance management of multiple circular FIFO storage means	Michel Colmant, Robert W. Krug	1996-05-21	$11,195,000

Alexander A. Smith — 15 Patents

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