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Daniel C. Tappan — 18 Patents

Cisco: 17 patents #742 of 13,007Top 6%
BNBolt, Beranek And Newman: 1 patents #6 of 41Top 15%
Boxboro, MA: #2 of 42 inventorsTop 5%
Massachusetts: #6,563 of 88,656 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Daniel C. Tappan has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in August 2011. Daniel C. Tappan ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Daniel C. Tappan in Boxboro, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2009.peak 51995: 1 patents19951999: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 5 patents2011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8001252 Psuedowire termination directly on a router James N. Guichard, Mohammed Sayeed, Bertrand Duvivier, W. Scott Wainner, Earl Hardin Booth, III +3 more 2011-08-16 $43,436,000
7529257 Method for supporting a GMPLS hierarchy through multiple routing instances 2009-05-05 $26,938,000
7526571 IPv6 over MPLS IPv4 core Eric C. Rosen, Ole Troan, Parag Jain, Eric Levy-Abegnoli, Luc Revardel +1 more 2009-04-28 $39,849,000
7516224 Pseudowire termination directly on a router James N. Guichard, Mohammed Sayeed, Bertrand Duvivier, W. Scott Wainner, Earl Hardin Booth, III +3 more 2009-04-07 $22,125,000
7512702 Method and apparatus providing highly scalable server load balancing Sunil K. Srivastava 2009-03-31 $44,749,000
7483387 Hierarchical label distribution for inter-area summarization of edge-device addresses James N. Guichard, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Simon James Trevor Spraggs 2009-01-27 $27,170,000
7373660 Methods and apparatus to distribute policy information James N. Guichard, Robert Hanzl, W. Scott Wainner 2008-05-13 $48,144,000
7246175 IPv6 over MPLS IPv4 core Eric C. Rosen, Ole Troan, Parag Jain, Eric Levy-Abegnoli, Luc Revardel +1 more 2007-07-17 $88,601,000
7243161 Two label stack for transport of network layer protocols over label switched networks Eric C. Rosen, Parag Jain, Eric Levy-Abegnoli, Luc Revardel, Francois Le Faucheur 2007-07-10 $100,671,000
7065268 Link discovery and verification procedure using loopback Danny Prairie, Richard Bradford 2006-06-20 $24,622,000
7046928 Link discovery and verification using loss of light Richard Bradford 2006-05-16 $32,537,000
6834139 Link discovery and verification procedure using loopback Danny Prairie, Richard Bradford 2004-12-21 $269,933,000
6603756 Hierarchical label switching across multiple OSPF areas 2003-08-05 $113,142,000
6473421 Hierarchical label switching across multiple OSPF areas 2002-10-29 $199,655,000
6430155 Congestion avoidance on communications networks Bruce Davie, Jeremy Lawrence 2002-08-06 $108,800,000
6295296 Use of a single data structure for label forwarding and imposition 2001-09-25 $240,784,000
5991300 Technique for efficiently performing optional TTL propagation during label imposition 1999-11-23 $620,310,000
5394394 Message header classifier William R. Crowther, Stanley A. Lackey, Jr., C. Philip Levin 1995-02-28 $3,550,000