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Robert J. Friday — 56 Patents

Cisco: 19 patents #645 of 13,007Top 5%
JNJuniper Networks: 15 patents #167 of 2,602Top 7%
AIAirespace: 11 patents #1 of 13Top 8%
MSMist Systems: 10 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
RNRicochet Networks: 1 patents #6 of 11Top 55%
Los Gatos, CA: #108 of 2,986 inventorsTop 4%
California: #6,620 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Robert J. Friday has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in August 2025. Robert J. Friday ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Robert J. Friday in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12388736 Rules driven software deployment agent Osman Sarood, Randall Wayne Frei, Keh-Ming Luoh 2025-08-12
12170935 Determining orientation of deployed access points Mohammad Zohoorian, Jie Jiang, Nagarjun Srinivasan, Kevin Friday, Shmuel Shaffer 2024-12-17 $10,386,000
12058535 Methods and apparatus for generating, transmitting and/or using beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2024-08-06 $16,476,000
12052150 Monitoring wireless access point events Nicolas S. Dade, Oscar S. Ernohazy, Randall Wayne Frei 2024-07-30 $10,372,000
12047863 Methods and apparatus relating to the use of real and/or virtual beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2024-07-23 $12,679,000
12040934 Conversational assistant for obtaining network information Jisheng Wang, Kush Shah, Huan Thien-Vu, Xiaoying Wu, Amin Toghi Eshghi +2 more 2024-07-16 $14,350,000
11968075 Application session-specific network topology generation for troubleshooting the application session Jisheng Wang, Xiaoying Wu, Yedunandan Siddalingappa-Vitalapur, Abhiram Madhugiri Shamsundar, Sudheer Poorna Chandra Matta +5 more 2024-04-23 $11,265,000
11777802 Rules driven software deployment agent Osman Sarood, Randall Wayne Frei, Keh-Ming Luoh 2023-10-03 $6,930,000
11564147 Methods and apparatus relating to the use of real and/or virtual beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2023-01-24 $6,948,000
11368856 Methods and apparatus for generating,transmitting and/or using beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2022-06-21 $21,753,000
11218488 Access enforcement at a wireless access point Oscar S. Ernohazy, Nicholas S. Dade, Randall Wayne Frei 2022-01-04 $21,730,000
11206185 Rules driven software deployment agent Osman Sarood, Randall Wayne Frei, Keh-Ming Luoh 2021-12-21 $29,988,000
11076341 Methods and apparatus relating to the use of real and/or virtual beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2021-07-27 $6,239,000
10958543 Monitoring wireless access point events Nicolas S. Dade, Oscar S. Ernohazy, Randall Wayne Frei 2021-03-23 $5,478,000
10932141 Methods and apparatus for generating,transmitting and/or using beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2021-02-23 $11,016,000
10581863 Access enforcement at a wireless access point Oscar S. Ernohazy, Nicolas S. Dade, Randall Wayne Frei 2020-03-03
10536894 Methods and apparatus relating to the use of real and/or virtual beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2020-01-14
10219166 Methods and apparatus for generating, transmitting and/or using beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2019-02-26
10091209 Access enforcement at a wireless access point Oscar S. Ernohazy, Nicolas S. Dade, Randall Wayne Frei 2018-10-02
10028199 Methods and apparatus relating to the use of real and/or virtual beacons Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2018-07-17
9967803 Dynamic virtual beacon methods and apparatus Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2018-05-08
9832082 Monitoring wireless access point events Nicolas S. Dade, Oscar S. Ernohazy, Randall Wayne Frei 2017-11-28
9743254 Methods and apparatus relating to the use of received signals to determine wireless terminal location and/or refine location determination models Neal Dante Castagnoli, Randall Wayne Frei 2017-08-22
9686289 Access enforcement at a wireless access point Oscar S. Ernohazy, Nicolas S. Dade, Randall Wayne Frei 2017-06-20
9659321 Real-time return of local search content based on global search key Esteban Raul Torres, Ravi Akireddy, Thirunavukkarasu Suresh 2017-05-23 $17,794,000