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Tony Bates — 5 Patents

Cisco: 4 patents #3,400 of 13,007Top 30%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Redwood City, CA: #1,695 of 5,061 inventorsTop 35%
California: #107,996 of 386,348 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Tony Bates has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in June 2017. Tony Bates ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Tony Bates in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2001.peak 12001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9686189 Routing data in a bi-directional communication session over an overlay network using relay nodes Silver Keskkula 2017-06-20 $31,379,000
6820210 System and method for fault recovery for a two line bi-directional ring network Feisal Daruwalla, Hon Wah Chin, David Tsiang, George Suwala 2004-11-16 $138,076,000
6615362 System and method for fault recovery for two line bi-directional ring network Feisal Daruwalla, Hon Wah Chin, David Tsiang, George Suwala 2003-09-02 $201,915,000
6430700 System and method for fault recovery for a two line bi-directional ring network Feisal Daruwalla, Hon Wah Chin, David Tsiang, George Suwala 2002-08-06 $108,800,000
6269452 System and method for fault recovery for a two line bi-directional ring network Feisal Daruwalla, Hon Wah Chin, David Tsiang, George Suwala 2001-07-31 $812,275,000