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Ralph Droms — 47 Patents

Cisco: 47 patents #176 of 13,007Top 2%
Concord, MA: #23 of 720 inventorsTop 4%
Massachusetts: #1,375 of 88,656 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Ralph Droms has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in August 2020. Ralph Droms ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Ralph Droms in Concord, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10742592 Dynamic DNS-based service discovery Timothy P. Donahue 2020-08-11 $33,844,000
10129202 Optimizing global IPv6 address assignments Jonathan W. Hui, Paul B Duffy, Wei Hong 2018-11-13 $45,151,000
10057208 Visibility control for domain name system service discovery Timothy P. Donahue 2018-08-21 $56,930,000
9712485 Dynamic DNS-based service discovery Timothy P. Donahue 2017-07-18 $26,765,000
9699136 Stateless autoconfiguration of hostnames of network devices Rajiv Asati 2017-07-04
9246809 Dynamic discovery of IPV6 transition parameters by border/relay routers Rajiv Asati, Wojciech Dec, Daniel G. Wing 2016-01-26 $15,511,000
9215141 Automated network device provisioning using dynamic host configuration protocol Rajiv Asati, Vijay Bollapragada 2015-12-15 $26,353,000
8976807 Dynamically determining hostnames of network devices Rajiv Asati 2015-03-10 $36,276,000
8918531 Automated network device provisioning using dynamic host configuration protocol Rajiv Asati, Vijay Bollapragada 2014-12-23 $54,137,000
8917737 Automatically identifying an edge-facing router Hemant Singh, William Beebee, Ole Troan 2014-12-23 $54,137,000
8798062 Extensions to IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol for automated prefix delegation Anthony Lee Hain 2014-08-05 $23,713,000
8635314 Use of IPv6 in access networks Madhu Sudan, Sanjeev Desai, John T. Chapman, Raman S. Krishnan 2014-01-21 $36,957,000
8615591 Termination of a communication session between a client and a server Joshua B. Littlefield, Brian P. Shorey 2013-12-24 $161,092,000
8601143 Automated configuration of network device ports Gary Dennis Vogel, Jr., Roland Saville, Vikas Butaney 2013-12-03 $20,751,000
8576857 Automatically identifying an edge-facing router Hemant Singh, William Beebee, Ole Troan 2013-11-05 $47,663,000
8291489 Method and apparatus for registering auto-configured network addresses based on connection authentication John M. Schnizlein 2012-10-16 $38,265,000
8156325 Role aware network security enforcement Sean Convery, David R. Oran, James Paul Rivers, John M. Schnizlein, Mark Stapp 2012-04-10 $19,043,000
8135028 Neighbor discovery in cable networks Madhu Sudan 2012-03-13 $47,449,000
8078721 Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) initialization responsive to a loss of network layer connectivity Vitali Vinokour, David Delano Ward 2011-12-13 $16,658,000
8065515 Autoconfigured prefix delegation based on distributed hash Pascal Thubert 2011-11-22 $21,717,000
8060623 Automated configuration of network device ports Gary Dennis Vogel, Jr., Roland Saville, Vikas Butaney 2011-11-15 $57,139,000
8045558 Extensions to IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol for automated prefix delegation Anthony Lee Hain 2011-10-25 $43,549,000
7941512 Use of IPv6 in access networks Madhu Sudan, Sanjeev Desai, John T. Chapman, Raman S. Krishnan 2011-05-10 $19,779,000
7937494 Methods and apparatus for processing a DHCP request using rule-based classification Richard A. Johnson, Matthew King, Richard M. Pruss 2011-05-03 $40,006,000
7886149 Method and apparatus for assigning network addresses based on connection authentication John M. Schnizlein 2011-02-08 $17,690,000