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Robert Sultan — 39 Patents

Futurewei Technologies: 31 patents #39 of 1,563Top 3%
IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
Fujitsu Limited: 2 patents #10,930 of 24,456Top 45%
Huawei: 2 patents #5,512 of 15,535Top 40%
Somers, NY: #24 of 237 inventorsTop 15%
New York: #2,747 of 115,490 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Robert Sultan has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Futurewei Technologies. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in March 2018. Robert Sultan ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Robert Sultan in Somers, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9912495 Virtual layer 2 and mechanism to make it scalable Linda Dunbar, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Susan Hares, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2018-03-06
9331908 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Yingjie Gu, Yizhou Li, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2016-05-03
9160609 Virtual Layer 2 and mechanism to make it scalable Linda Dunbar, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Susan Hares, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2015-10-13
9014054 Layer two over multiple sites Linda Dunbar, Susan Hares, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2015-04-21
8953621 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Yingjie Gu, Yizhou Li, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2015-02-10
8873566 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Yingjie Gu, Yizhou Li, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2014-10-28
8837281 Use of partitions to reduce flooding and filtering database size requirements in large layer two networks T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar 2014-09-16
8767530 Hierarchical processing and propagation of partial faults in a packet network Lucy Yong, Linda Dunbar 2014-07-01
8730975 Method to pass virtual local area network information in virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol Yizhou Li, Yingjie Gu, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2014-05-20
8718071 Method to pass virtual local area network information in virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol Yizhou Li, Yingjie Gu, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2014-05-06
8605735 Method of supporting an open provider backbone network Lucy Yong, Linda Dunbar 2013-12-10
8547999 Encapsulating large ethernet frames Linda Dunbar 2013-10-01
8549178 Using provider backbone bridged network to reduce the number of media access control addresses visible to core bridges in the data center T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2013-10-01
8477600 Composite transport functions Lucy Yong, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar 2013-07-02
8472325 Network availability enhancement technique for packet transport networks Lucy Yong, Linda Dunbar 2013-06-25
8451842 Media access control bridging in a mesh network T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar 2013-05-28
8442072 Method of preventing transport leaks in hybrid switching networks by extension of the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2013-05-14
8427940 Method of M:1 protection T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2013-04-23
8351348 Value-adoption and value-translation for automatic provisioning of port parameters T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong 2013-01-08
8345542 Method of M:1 protection T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2013-01-01
8315260 Transport multiplexer-mechanisms to force ethernet traffic from one domain to be switched in a different (external) domain T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong 2012-11-20
8238340 Transport multiplexer—mechanisms to force ethernet traffic from one domain to be switched in a different (external) domain T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong 2012-08-07
8169912 System for dynamic bandwidth adjustment and trading among peers Young Lee, Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong 2012-05-01
8149837 Method of supporting an open provider backbone network Lucy Yong, Linda Dunbar 2012-04-03
8140654 Verifying management virtual local area network identifier provisioning consistency Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong, T. Benjamin Mack-Crane 2012-03-20