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Thomas Eric Ryle — 16 Patents

Cisco: 9 patents #1,576 of 13,007Top 15%
IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
Raleigh, NC: #507 of 6,378 inventorsTop 8%
North Carolina: #3,044 of 45,564 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Thomas Eric Ryle has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2018. Thomas Eric Ryle ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Thomas Eric Ryle in Raleigh, NC, US.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10158567 PBB-EVPN customer MAC synchronization among all-active multi-homing PEs Mei Zhang, Yushun Zhang, Ali Sajassi, Richard Thomas Wood, Nathan A. Mitchell 2018-12-18 $38,263,000
10033636 Ethernet segment aware MAC address learning Mei Zhang, Yushun Zhang, Ali Sajassi, Richard Thomas Wood, Nathan A. Mitchell 2018-07-24 $45,473,000
7672323 Dynamic and intelligent buffer management for SAN extension Ganesh Sundaram, John Diab, Hitesh Amin 2010-03-02 $32,153,000
7653526 Method and system for emulating an ethernet link over a sonet path Sanjeev Rampal, Jimmy Ervin, Charles A. Carriker, Jr., Russell Eugene Gardo 2010-01-26 $48,522,000
7653066 Method and apparatus for guaranteed in-order delivery for FICON over SONET/SDH transport Ganesh Sundaram, Hitesh Amin, John Diab, Charles A. Carriker, Jr., Marc Bennett +1 more 2010-01-26 $48,522,000
7568026 Method and system for efficient link recovery for fibre channel over SONET/SDH transport path Ganesh Sundaram, Hitesh Amin, John Diab, Yves Vidal 2009-07-28 $30,701,000
7565442 Method and system for supporting distance extension in networks having Y-cable protection Gongyuan Yao, William D. Miller, Lee Shombert, Fang Gao, John Diab +4 more 2009-07-21 $50,018,000
7515593 Method and system for efficient flow control for client data frames over GFP across a SONET/SDH transport path Vikram Devdas, Hitesh Amin, John Diab, Marc Bennett, Ganesh Sundaram 2009-04-07 $22,125,000
7403532 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Dennis Doidge, Jim P. Ervin, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Pramod Narottambhai Patel +2 more 2008-07-22 $9,818,000
7020814 Method and system for emulating a Fiber Channel link over a SONET/SDH path Ganesh Sundaram, Hitesh Amin, Vikram Devdas, John Diab, Fuchun Jiang +2 more 2006-03-28 $61,421,000
6970468 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Dennis Doidge, Jim P. Ervin, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Pramod Narottambhai Patel +2 more 2005-11-29 $7,002,000
6944164 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Dennis Doidge, Jim P. Ervin, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Pramod Narottambhai Patel +2 more 2005-09-13 $5,632,000
6272134 Multicast frame support in hardware routing assist Brian Mitchell Bass, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Scott J. Lemke, Joseph M. Rash +1 more 2001-08-07 $22,988,000
6144668 Simultaneous cut through and store-and-forward frame support in a network device Brian Mitchell Bass, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Scott J. Lemke, Joseph M. Rash +1 more 2000-11-07 $39,779,000
6064674 Method and apparatus for hardware forwarding of LAN frames over ATM networks Dennis Doidge, Jim P. Ervin, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Pramod Narottambhai Patel +2 more 2000-05-16 $24,852,000
6035360 Multi-port SRAM access control using time division multiplexed arbitration Dennis Doidge, Douglas Ray Henderson, Edward Hau-chun Ku, Pramod Narottambhai Patel, Joseph M. Rash 2000-03-07 $24,867,000