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Edward C. Ross — 19 Patents

QLQlogic: 18 patents #6 of 242Top 3%
WEWarner Bros. Entertainment: 1 patents #90 of 140Top 65%
Edina, MN: #72 of 909 inventorsTop 8%
Minnesota: #3,778 of 52,454 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Edward C. Ross has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qlogic. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2015. Edward C. Ross ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Edward C. Ross in Edina, MN, US.

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Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9094294 Methods and systems for an out-of-credit timer in a network device Frank R. Dropps, Bret E. Indrelee, Leo J. Slechta, Jr., Gary M. Papenfuss 2015-07-28 $2,603,000
8873546 Method and system for network switch element James A. Kunz, Frank R. Dropps, Mark A. Owen, Craig M. Verba 2014-10-28 $2,148,000
8644317 Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre channel switch elements Frank R. Dropps, Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2014-02-04 $5,875,000
8200473 Emulation of multiple MDIO manageable devices Frank R. Dropps 2012-06-12 $6,781,000
8081650 Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches Frank R. Dropps, William J. Gustafson 2011-12-20 $7,503,000
8072988 Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre channel systems using virtual and/or pseudo virtual lanes Frank R. Dropps, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Mark A. Owen 2011-12-06 $8,254,000
8068482 Method and system for network switch element James A. Kunz, Frank R. Dropps, Mark A. Owen, Craig M. Verba 2011-11-29 $2,489,000
8006837 Long box packaging design for prerecorded media 2011-08-30 $18,084,000
7990975 Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre channel switch elements Frank R. Dropps, Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2011-08-02 $8,235,000
7792115 Method and system for routing and filtering network data packets in fibre channel systems Frank R. Dropps, Steven M. Betker 2010-09-07 $12,179,000
7760752 Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems Frank R. Dropps 2010-07-20 $6,737,000
7684401 Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre channel switch elements Frank R. Dropps, Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2010-03-23 $9,727,000
7630384 Method and system for distributing credit in fibre channel systems Frank R. Dropps, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Mark A. Owen 2009-12-08 $9,039,000
7613816 Method and system for routing network information Frank R. Dropps, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss 2009-11-03 $19,695,000
7593997 Method and system for LUN remapping in fibre channel networks Frank R. Dropps, Steven M. Betker 2009-09-22 $10,384,000
7548560 Method and system for checking frame-length in fibre channel frames Frank R. Dropps, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2009-06-16 $7,799,000
7525983 Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches Frank R. Dropps, William J. Gustafson 2009-04-28 $5,601,000
7522529 Method and system for detecting congestion and over subscription in a fibre channel network Frank R. Dropps 2009-04-21 $5,262,000
7406092 Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems Frank R. Dropps 2008-07-29 $18,147,000