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Douglas A. Smith — 40 Patents

Cisco: 13 patents #1,040 of 13,007Top 8%
IBM: 12 patents #9,258 of 70,183Top 15%
STSteelcase: 7 patents #139 of 809Top 20%
ACAironet Wireless Communications: 1 patents #8 of 15Top 55%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Austin, TX: #665 of 18,064 inventorsTop 4%
Texas: #2,511 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Douglas A. Smith has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in May 2022. Douglas A. Smith ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Douglas A. Smith in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2019.peak 61986: 1 patents19861993: 1 patents1994: 2 patents19941995: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 3 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2012: 2 patents20122015: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 6 patents2020: 3 patents20202022: 3 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11347777 Identifying key words within a plurality of documents 2022-05-31 $8,769,000
11334607 Identifying key words within a plurality of documents 2022-05-17 $6,899,000
11295219 Answering questions based on semantic distances between subjects Jennifer A. English, Malous M. Kossarian, Charles E. McManis 2022-04-05 $5,706,000
10740377 Identifying categories within textual data Charles E. McManis 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10621219 Techniques for determining a semantic distance between subjects Jennifer A. English, Malous M. Kossarian, Charles E. McManis 2020-04-14 $1,668,000
10599694 Determining a semantic distance between subjects Jennifer A. English, Malous M. Kossarian, Charles E. McManis 2020-03-24 $1,716,000
10423649 Natural question generation from query data using natural language processing system William S. Ko, Malous M. Kossarian, Huaiyu Zhu 2019-09-24 $3,094,000
10339167 System and method for generating full questions from natural language queries Bryn Robert Dole, William S. Ko, Malous M. Kossarian 2019-07-02 $3,331,000
10339168 System and method for generating full questions from natural language queries Bryn Robert Dole, William S. Ko, Malous M. Kossarian 2019-07-02 $3,331,000
10296574 Contextual ink annotation in a mapping interface Chad Steven Estes, Kshitij Sethi, Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew, Jeff West 2019-05-21 $71,387,000
10242002 Phenomenological semantic distance from latent dirichlet allocations (LDA) classification Jennifer A. English, Malous M. Kossarian, Charles E. McManis 2019-03-26 $2,148,000
10229184 Phenomenological semantic distance from latent dirichlet allocations (LDA) classification Jennifer A. English, Malous M. Kossarian, Charles E. McManis 2019-03-12 $2,141,000
10157178 Identifying categories within textual data Charles E. McManis 2018-12-18 $3,830,000
9201603 Dynamic logical mapping Stephen G. Hamada, Brian L. Plomondon, Christopher West, Michael Silcott 2015-12-01 $52,528,000
9059925 Method for multicast load balancing in wireless LANs Robert C. Meier, Stuart Norman, Nancy Cam Winget 2015-06-16 $30,096,000
8306027 Method for multicast load balancing in wireless LANS Robert C. Meier, Stuart Norman, Nancy Cam Winget 2012-11-06 $33,745,000
8184564 Staggering bursts of broadcast management frames in a wireless network device having a plurality of MAC addresses Richard Kinder 2012-05-22 $35,934,000
7844057 Roaming using reassociation Robert C. Meier, Richard D. Rebo, Victor J. Griswold, Nancy Cam Winget 2010-11-30 $26,882,000
7760629 Aggregate data frame generation Lu Qian 2010-07-20 $23,594,000
7706345 Wireless local area network context control protocol Robert C. Meier, Richard D. Rebo, Victor J. Griswold, Nancy Cam Winget 2010-04-27 $18,332,000
7561549 Wireless local area network context control protocol Robert C. Meier, Richard D. Rebo, Victor J. Griswold, Nancy Cam Winget 2009-07-14 $49,569,000
7362776 Method for multicast load balancing in wireless LANs Robert C. Meier, Stuart Norman, Nancy Cam Winget 2008-04-22 $50,196,000
7350077 802.11 using a compressed reassociation exchange to facilitate fast handoff Robert C. Meier, Richard D. Rebo, Victor J. Griswold, Nancy Cam Winget 2008-03-25 $34,867,000
7188253 Wireless authentication protocol David E. Halasz, Glen Zorn, Stuart Norman 2007-03-06 $77,121,000
7013157 Method for multicast delivery with designated acknowledgment Stuart Norman 2006-03-14 $72,003,000