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Michael Fine — 25 Patents

Cisco: 18 patents #687 of 13,007Top 6%
3C3Com: 2 patents #466 of 1,190Top 40%
ANAruba Networks: 2 patents #86 of 255Top 35%
DEDigital Equipment: 2 patents #602 of 2,100Top 30%
ACAtheros Communications: 1 patents #70 of 114Top 65%
Cambridge, MA: #376 of 8,183 inventorsTop 5%
Massachusetts: #4,179 of 88,656 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Michael Fine has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in April 2014. Michael Fine ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Michael Fine in Cambridge, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8713639 Method and apparatus for policy-based network access control with arbitrary network access control frameworks Santhosh Cheeniyil, Krishna Prabhakar 2014-04-29 $12,603,000
8713201 Method and system for the assignment of security group information using a proxy Michael R. Smith, Awais B. Nemat 2014-04-29 $29,978,000
8555056 Method and system for including security information with a packet Michael R. Smith, Padmanabha Nallur, Wilson Kok 2013-10-08 $31,256,000
8245281 Method and apparatus for policy-based network access control with arbitrary network access control frameworks Santhosh Cheeniyil, Krishna Prabhakar 2012-08-14 $23,247,000
8037514 Method and apparatus for securely disseminating security server contact information in a network Irene Kuffel, Wilson Kok, Fabio R. Maino, Jed Lau 2011-10-11 $21,341,000
7992193 Method and apparatus to secure AAA protocol messages Fabio R. Maino, Irene Kuffel, Arthur Zavalkovsky 2011-08-02 $42,564,000
7886145 Method and system for including security information with a packet Michael R. Smith, Padmanabha Nallur, Wilson Kok 2011-02-08 $17,690,000
7877601 Method and system for including security information with a packet Michael R. Smith, Padmanabha Nallur, Wilson Kok 2011-01-25 $37,741,000
7840708 Method and system for the assignment of security group information using a proxy Michael R. Smith, Awais B. Nemat 2010-11-23 $22,543,000
7546458 Method for organizing virtual networks while optimizing security Aman Singla, Andrew Mackinnon Davidson, Kevin Neal Hayes 2009-06-09 $6,804,000
7200145 Private VLANs Thomas J. Edsall, Marco Foschiano, Thomas Nosella 2007-04-03 $103,515,000
6870812 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Raymond Kloth, Thomas J. Edsall, Dinesh G. Dutt 2005-03-22 $84,074,000
6868065 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Raymond Kloth, Thomas J. Edsall, Dinesh G. Dutt 2005-03-15 $60,165,000
6813250 Shared spanning tree protocol Silvano Gai, Keith McCloghrie 2004-11-02 $112,865,000
6798746 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Raymond Kloth, Thomas J. Edsall, Dinesh G. Dutt 2004-09-28 $62,852,000
6741592 Private VLANs Thomas J. Edsall, Marco Foschiano, Thomas Nosella 2004-05-25 $92,121,000
6643260 Method and apparatus for implementing a quality of service policy in a data communications network Raymond Kloth, Thomas J. Edsall, Dinesh G. Dutt 2003-11-04 $119,160,000
6298061 Port aggregation protocol Hon Wah Chin, Norman W. Finn, Richard Hausman 2001-10-02 $244,165,000
6275933 Security system for a computerized apparatus Randy Rollins 2001-08-14 $5,633,000
6215799 Analog telephone to Eric P. Mitchell 2001-04-10 $9,098,000
6188694 Shared spanning tree protocol Silvano Gai, Keith McCloghrie 2001-02-13 $790,346,000
6163543 Port aggregation protocol Hon Wah Chin, Norman W. Finn, Richard Hausman 2000-12-19 $1,198,868,000
5959968 Port aggregation protocol Hon Wah Chin, Norman W. Finn, Richard Hausman 1999-09-28 $1,004,895,000
5313467 Integrated communication link having a dynamically allocatable bandwidth and protocol for transmission of allocation information over the link George Varghese, Richard L. Szmauz, Andrew Smith 1994-05-17 $2,500,000
4894846 Method for maintaining a correct time in a distributed processing system 1990-01-16 $26,532,000