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Danny Prairie — 8 Patents

Cisco: 7 patents #2,035 of 13,007Top 20%
MIMitel: 1 patents #90 of 264Top 35%
Gatineau, CA: #211 of 1,550 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Danny Prairie has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2014. Danny Prairie ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Danny Prairie in Gatineau, QC, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 21999: 1 patents19992004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8717936 Optimal automated exploration of hierarchical multiprotocol label switching label switch paths Yufei Shi, George Swallow, Thomas D. Nadeau, Vanson Lim, Jean-Philippe Vasseur 2014-05-06 $27,316,000
8531976 Locating tunnel failure based on next-next hop connectivity in a computer network Jean-Philippe Vasseur 2013-09-10 $31,745,000
8374164 Detection of specific BFD path failures Thomas D. Nadeau, George Swallow, Reshad Rahman 2013-02-12 $35,798,000
8116227 Optimal automated exploration of hierarchical multiprotocol label switching label switch paths Yufei Shi, George Swallow, Thomas D. Nadeau, Vanson Lim, Jean-Philippe Vasseur 2012-02-14 $25,137,000
7782790 Extensions to the path verification protocol to support link bundling constructs Thomas D. Nadeau, George Swallow, David Delano Ward 2010-08-24 $28,217,000
7065268 Link discovery and verification procedure using loopback Daniel C. Tappan, Richard Bradford 2006-06-20 $24,622,000
6834139 Link discovery and verification procedure using loopback Daniel C. Tappan, Richard Bradford 2004-12-21 $269,933,000
5920622 Multiple owner resource management Paul Andrew Erb 1999-07-06 $10,873,000