Robert Thomas — 14 Patents at Cisco

Robert Thomas has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in May 2012. Robert Thomas ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Robert Thomas in Columbia, SC, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
8171315	Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device	Roger Karam	2012-05-01	$21,454,000
7969898	Technique for breaking loops in a communications network	Alex E. Raj, Anna Charny, Prabhu Vaithilingam	2011-06-28	$22,891,000
7945696	Differentiated routing using tunnels in a computer network	Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Jeff Apcar, Jim Guichard	2011-05-17	$36,208,000
7936668	Methods and apparatus for distributing label information	James N. Guichard, Matthew H. Birkner, Roy M. Brooks	2011-05-03	$40,006,000
7907603	Acceleration of label distribution protocol (LDP) session setup	Bin Mo	2011-03-15	$47,305,000
7899049	Methods and apparatus for minimizing duplicate traffic during point to multipoint tree switching in a network	Alex E. Raj	2011-03-01	$30,734,000
7684350	Method and apparatus for distributing labels in a label distribution protocol multicast network	Alex E. Raj, Eric C. Rosen, Ijsbrand Wijnands	2010-03-23	$41,605,000
7646772	Graceful shutdown of LDP on specific interfaces between label switched routers	Muthurajah Sivabalan, Sami Boutros, David Delano Ward, Syed Kamran Raza	2010-01-12	$41,691,000
7613939	Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device	Roger Karam	2009-11-03	$49,120,000
7609620	Method and apparatus using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) label distribution protocol (LDP) to establish label switching paths (LSPS) for directed forwarding	Alex E. Raj, Prabhu Vaithilingam	2009-10-27	$36,508,000
7286529	Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol (TDP)	—	2007-10-23	$59,916,000
6512768	Discovery and tag space identifiers in a tag distribution protocol (TDP)	—	2003-01-28	$120,464,000
4605587	Fluorochemical composition for coating soil resistant yarn	Willis Hammond, Michael P. Friedberger, William A. Archie	1986-08-12	$5,461,000
4604316	Fluorochemical composition for coating soil resistant yarn	—	1986-08-05	$11,096,000

Robert Thomas — 14 Patents

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