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Michael E. Knappe — 43 Patents

Cisco: 34 patents #289 of 13,007Top 3%
JNJuniper Networks: 4 patents #799 of 2,602Top 35%
HIHarman International Industries, Incorporated: 2 patents #383 of 1,027Top 40%
Nortel Networks Limited: 2 patents #1,531 of 5,294Top 30%
SHShure Acquisition Holdings: 1 patents #124 of 178Top 70%
California: #10,282 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Michael E. Knappe has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2024. Michael E. Knappe ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Michael E. Knappe in معلمی نژاد, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12167197 Audio devices having multiple states Brent Robert Shumard, Walter Harwood 2024-12-10
11785386 Multistep sound preference determination Daniel Timothy PYE, Kevin Hague, Sean Olive, Omid KHONSARIPOUR, Todd WELTI 2023-10-10
11134353 Customized audio processing based on user-specific and hardware-specific audio information Daniel Timothy PYE, Sean Olive, Todd S. Welti, Omid KHONSARIPOUR, Kadagattur Gopinatha SRINIDHI +1 more 2021-09-28
9774633 Distributed application awareness Joe Tomasello, Krishna Narayanaswamy, Alexander Waterman 2017-09-26 $16,662,000
9258313 Distributed application awareness Joe Tomasello, Krishna Narayanaswamy, Alexander Waterman 2016-02-09 $2,006,000
9130859 Methods and apparatus for inter-virtual local area network multicast services 2015-09-08 $18,450,000
8842534 Method and system for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver Paul S. Hahn, Richard A. Dunlap, Luke K. Surazski 2014-09-23 $22,269,000
8711842 Distributed IP-PBX signal processing 2014-04-29 $10,829,000
8102766 Method and system for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver Paul S. Hahn, Richard A. Dunlap, Luke K. Surazski 2012-01-24 $38,455,000
7656816 Method and system for logging voice quality issues for communication connections Shmuel Shaffer, Joseph F. Khouri, Robert T. Bell 2010-02-02 $21,413,000
7551603 Time-sensitive-packet jitter and latency minimization on a shared data link Shmuel Shaffer, Joseph F. Khouri 2009-06-23 $32,493,000
7453828 Devices, methods and software for generating indexing metatags in real time for a stream of digitally stored voice data Luke K. Surazski, Pascal H. Huart 2008-11-18 $27,119,000
7249185 Methods, devices and software for redundant transmission of voice data over a packet network connection established according to an unreliable communication protocol Shmuel Shaffer, Joseph F. Khouri, John F. Wakerly 2007-07-24 $94,341,000
7221659 Method and system for managing erroneous attenuation of signal Luke K. Surazski 2007-05-22 $112,731,000
7200214 Method and system for participant control of privacy during multiparty communication sessions Shmuel Shaffer 2007-04-03 $103,515,000
7194084 System and method for stereo conferencing over low-bandwidth links Shmuel Shaffer 2007-03-20 $75,178,000
7180997 Method and system for improving the intelligibility of a moderator during a multiparty communication session 2007-02-20 $51,783,000
7170886 Devices, methods and software for generating indexing metatags in real time for a stream of digitally stored voice data Luke K. Surazski, Pascal H. Huart 2007-01-30 $69,430,000
7161905 Method and system for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver Paul S. Hahn, Richard A. Dunlap, Luke K. Surazski 2007-01-09 $74,395,000
7136398 Method and apparatus for adding functionality to an existing conference call Pascal H. Huart, Luke K. Surazski 2006-11-14 $97,820,000
7099280 Method and system for logging voice quality issues for communication connections Shmuel Shaffer, Joseph F. Khouri, Robert T. Bell 2006-08-29 $65,975,000
7068792 Enhanced spatial mixing to enable three-dimensional audio deployment Lukasz Surazski, Pascal H. Huart 2006-06-27 $33,709,000
7065203 Method and system for managing call requests in a limited bandwidth environment Pascal H. Huart, Luke K. Surazski 2006-06-20 $24,622,000
7058168 Method and system for participant control of privacy during multiparty communication sessions Shmuel Shaffer 2006-06-06 $31,688,000
7002992 Codec selection to improve media communication Shmuel Shaffer, Joseph F. Khouri, Robert T. Bell, Robert E. Gleichauf 2006-02-21 $44,597,000