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T. Benjamin Mack-Crane — 36 Patents

Futurewei Technologies: 27 patents #44 of 1,563Top 3%
TOTellabs Operations: 7 patents #30 of 307Top 10%
Huawei: 2 patents #5,512 of 15,535Top 40%
Downers Grove, IL: #13 of 824 inventorsTop 2%
Illinois: #1,490 of 84,256 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
T. Benjamin Mack-Crane has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Futurewei Technologies. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in October 2020. T. Benjamin Mack-Crane ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list T. Benjamin Mack-Crane in Downers Grove, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2013.peak 72007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 5 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 7 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10798001 Software defined networking (SDN) controller orchestration and network virtualization for data center interconnection Young Lee, Maarten Petrus Joseph Vissers 2020-10-06
10367730 Layer two over multiple sites Linda Dunbar, Susan Hares, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2019-07-30
9973429 Software defined networking (SDN) controller orchestration and network virtualization for data center interconnection Young Lee, Maarten Petrus Joseph Vissers 2018-05-15
9912495 Virtual layer 2 and mechanism to make it scalable Linda Dunbar, Susan Hares, Robert Sultan, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2018-03-06
9647876 Linked identifiers for multiple domains Susan Hares, Charles E. Perkins 2017-05-09
9331908 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Robert Sultan, Yingjie Gu, Yizhou Li 2016-05-03
9294395 Media access control bridging in a mesh network 2016-03-22
9160609 Virtual Layer 2 and mechanism to make it scalable Linda Dunbar, Susan Hares, Robert Sultan, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2015-10-13
9130875 Method and system for multi-layer network routing Jonathan B. Sadler, Susan W. Teller 2015-09-08
9014054 Layer two over multiple sites Linda Dunbar, Susan Hares, Robert Sultan, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Guoli Yin 2015-04-21
8953621 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Robert Sultan, Yingjie Gu, Yizhou Li 2015-02-10
8885643 Method for multicast flow routing selection Peter Ashwood-Smith 2014-11-11
8873566 Specifying priority on a virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol response Robert Sultan, Yingjie Gu, Yizhou Li 2014-10-28
8837281 Use of partitions to reduce flooding and filtering database size requirements in large layer two networks Robert Sultan, Linda Dunbar 2014-09-16
8730975 Method to pass virtual local area network information in virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol Yizhou Li, Yingjie Gu, Robert Sultan 2014-05-20
8718071 Method to pass virtual local area network information in virtual station interface discovery and configuration protocol Yizhou Li, Yingjie Gu, Robert Sultan 2014-05-06
8665746 Method for measuring throughput for a packet connection Linda Dunbar 2014-03-04
8549178 Using provider backbone bridged network to reduce the number of media access control addresses visible to core bridges in the data center Robert Sultan 2013-10-01
8477600 Composite transport functions Lucy Yong, Linda Dunbar, Robert Sultan 2013-07-02
8451842 Media access control bridging in a mesh network Robert Sultan, Linda Dunbar 2013-05-28
8442072 Method of preventing transport leaks in hybrid switching networks by extension of the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) Robert Sultan, Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong 2013-05-14
8427940 Method of M:1 protection Robert Sultan 2013-04-23
8351348 Value-adoption and value-translation for automatic provisioning of port parameters Linda Dunbar, Lucy Yong, Robert Sultan 2013-01-08
8345542 Method of M:1 protection Robert Sultan 2013-01-01
8315260 Transport multiplexer-mechanisms to force ethernet traffic from one domain to be switched in a different (external) domain Linda Dunbar, Robert Sultan, Lucy Yong 2012-11-20