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David Sheldon Stephenson — 72 Patents

Cisco: 52 patents #144 of 13,007Top 2%
AEArris Enterprises: 14 patents #56 of 1,262Top 5%
ATAT&T: 3 patents #5,559 of 18,772Top 30%
CICingular Wireless Ii: 2 patents #52 of 226Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #520 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #4,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #27,714 of 4,157,543Top 1%
72 Patents All Time
David Sheldon Stephenson has been granted 72 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in November 2025. David Sheldon Stephenson ranks #27,714 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.67%). Patent records list David Sheldon Stephenson in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2010.peak 82002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 4 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 8 patents20102011: 8 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 7 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 2 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 6 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 72 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12477454 Distribution of clients across a network Pratibha Gupta, Peter G. Khoury, William S. Kish, Allen Ka Lun Miu, Victor Shtrom +1 more 2025-11-18
11539454 Service validation using emulated virtual clients Ilango Purushothaman, Wenge Ren, Doron Givoni, Sandip C. Patel 2022-12-27
11356403 Network support for locally offloaded traffic Shailender Potharaju 2022-06-07
11330515 Redistributing clients based on comparisons to historical connection metrics Pratibha Gupta, Peter G. Khoury, William S. Kish, Allen Ka Lun Miu, Victor Shtrom +1 more 2022-05-10
11297560 Establishing LWA-WLAN communication Steve A. Martin, David A. Wright 2022-04-05
11271671 WLAN testing using an RF abstraction layer Doron Givoni, Sandip C. Patel 2022-03-08
11272361 Zero-touch onboarding in a network 2022-03-08
11102163 Network support for locally offloaded traffic Shailender Potharaju 2021-08-24
10805867 Establishing LWA-WLAN communication Steve A. Martin, David A. Wright 2020-10-13
10687253 Resource reservation on networks comprising wireless and wired segments Michael McBride, Subhasri Dhesikan, Neil R. Diener, Rajneesh Kumar 2020-06-16 $70,467,000
10574386 WLAN testing using an RF abstraction layer Doron Givoni, Sandip C. Patel 2020-02-25
10560348 Network access device for facilitating the troubleshooting of network connectivity problems Doron Givoni 2020-02-11
10536854 Concatenated authentication and authorization to multiple networks Rajesh Kaliaperumal, Ron Sidi 2020-01-14
10515391 Pre-association mechanism to provide detailed description of wireless services Esteban Raul Torres, Joseph Salowey, Chetin Ersoy, Nancy Cam-Winget 2019-12-24 $52,675,000
10448321 Distribution of clients across a network Pratibha Gupta, Peter G. Khoury, William S. Kish, Allen Ka Lun Miu, Victor Shtrom +1 more 2019-10-15
10389581 Access-point controller discovery via an intermediary William S. Kish 2019-08-20
10284545 Secure network access using credentials Doron Givoni, Elad Cohen 2019-05-07
10237756 Optimizing a neighbor list Tak Ming Pang, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey, Vishal Satyendra Desai 2019-03-19 $50,323,000
9763140 Resource reservation on networks comprising wireless and wired segments Michael McBride, Subhasri Dhesikan, Neil R. Diener, Rajneesh Kumar 2017-09-12 $24,578,000
9554243 Method and apparatus for WLAN location services Allan Thomson, James M. Polk 2017-01-24 $48,795,000
9313786 Dynamically dedicated wireless local area network service for high definition video teleconferencing Neil R. Diener, Abhijit Choudhury, Brian D. Hart 2016-04-12 $30,831,000
9253693 Optimizing a neighbor list of access points Tak Ming Pang, Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey, Vishal Satyendra Desai 2016-02-02 $21,227,000
9236928 Media access control for MIMO wireless network Ozgur Gurbuz, David Pignatelli, Eldad Perahia, Bretton Douglas, Ender Ayanoglu 2016-01-12 $21,630,000
9226167 Troubleshooting link and protocol in a wireless network Timothy S. Olson, Jeevan Shashikant Patil, Robert B. O'Hara, Jr. 2015-12-29 $18,147,000
9131029 Spatial division multiple access for wireless networks Eldad Perahia, Bretton Douglas, David Pignatelli 2015-09-08 $28,347,000