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Ronald D. Higgins — 12 Patents

Cisco: 10 patents #1,417 of 13,007Top 15%
The Colony, TX: #37 of 246 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #12,706 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Ronald D. Higgins has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in July 2011. Ronald D. Higgins ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Ronald D. Higgins in The Colony, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7978688 System and method for converting packet payload size Larry G. Michalewicz 2011-07-12 $21,796,000
7890749 System and method for providing security in a telecommunication network James R. Tighe, Richard B. Platt, Robert T. Bell 2011-02-15 $35,369,000
7852828 Extended telephony functionality at end points Michael H. McClung, Andrew J. Francke, James R. Tighe, Jeffery A. Sanders 2010-12-14 $26,420,000
7706355 System and method for converting packet payload size Larry G. Michalewicz 2010-04-27 $18,332,000
7310413 Language for implementing telephony processing in end points Michael H. McClung, Henry Yao-Tsu Chen, Andrew J. Francke 2007-12-18 $88,079,000
7069432 System and method for providing security in a telecommunication network James R. Tighe, Richard B. Platt, Robert T. Bell 2006-06-27 $33,709,000
7006494 System and method for a virtual telephony intermediary James R. Tighe, Richard B. Platt, Robert T. Bell 2006-02-28 $28,418,000
6961346 System and method for converting packet payload size Larry G. Michalewicz 2005-11-01 $47,339,000
6804254 System and method for maintaining a communication link Christopher E. Pearce, Delon R. Whetten, Scott Henning 2004-10-12 $67,030,000
6587480 Multimedia client for multimedia/hybrid network Jeffery A. Sanders 2003-07-01 $128,151,000
5953350 Multimedia client for multimedia/hybrid network 1999-09-14
4706280 Electronic step-by-step telephone switching system Walter L. Barbare, Harley Michael Willey 1987-11-10