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Frank R. Dropps

QL Qlogic: 89 patents #1 of 242Top 1%
HE Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 19 patents #95 of 4,473Top 3%
ST Seagate Technology: 6 patents #945 of 4,626Top 25%
QP Qlogic Switch Products: 3 patents #2 of 3Top 70%
AN Angeion: 2 patents #22 of 46Top 50%
IN Intel: 2 patents #13,213 of 30,777Top 45%
ME Medtronic: 2 patents #3,096 of 6,325Top 50%
📍 Annandale, MN: #1 of 33 inventorsTop 4%
🗺 Minnesota: #105 of 52,454 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #7,859 of 4,157,543Top 1%
134
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 76–100 of 134 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8391300 Configurable switch element and methods thereof Gary M. Papenfuss 2013-03-05
8295299 High speed fibre channel switch element Ernest G. Kohlwey, Mark A. Owen 2012-10-23
8228906 Method and system for virtual lane assignment 2012-07-24
8200473 Emulation of multiple MDIO manageable devices Edward C. Ross 2012-06-12
8116206 Method and system for routing frames in a network Gary M. Papenfuss 2012-02-14
8081650 Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches Edward C. Ross, William J. Gustafson 2011-12-20
8072988 Method and system for buffer-to-buffer credit recovery in fibre channel systems using virtual and/or pseudo virtual lanes Ernest G. Kohlwey, Edward C. Ross, Mark A. Owen 2011-12-06
8068482 Method and system for network switch element James A. Kunz, Edward C. Ross, Mark A. Owen, Craig M. Verba 2011-11-29
8050260 Method and system for load balancing in infiniband switches and networks Ian G. Colloff, James A. Kunz, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2011-11-01
8005105 Method and system for configuring fibre channel ports Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2011-08-23
7990975 Method and system for using extended fabric features with fibre channel switch elements Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Edward C. Ross 2011-08-02
7983265 Method and system for processing a network packet 2011-07-19
7978695 Hardware-enforced loop and NPIV hard zoning for fibre channel switch fabric William R. George 2011-07-12
7936771 Method and system for routing fibre channel frames Gary M. Papenfuss 2011-05-03
7903558 Method and system for monitoring a network link in network systems Bret E. Indrelee 2011-03-08
7894348 Method and system for congestion control in a fibre channel switch Gary M. Papenfuss 2011-02-22
7876752 Method and system for partition based network routing Todd Rimmer, Thomas R. Prohofsky, Duane J. McCrory, Edward C. McGlaughlin 2011-01-25
7843846 Method and system for processing network information Thomas R. Prohofsky 2010-11-30
7822061 Method and system for power control of fibre channel switches Charles M. Comp 2010-10-26
7822057 Method and system for keeping a fibre channel arbitrated loop open during frame gaps Ernest G. Kohlwey, Gary M. Papenfuss 2010-10-26
7792115 Method and system for routing and filtering network data packets in fibre channel systems Edward C. Ross, Steven M. Betker 2010-09-07
7773592 Method and system for routing network information Leonard W. Haseman 2010-08-10
7773629 Method and system for network port addressing Craig M. Verba, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2010-08-10
7760752 Programmable pseudo virtual lanes for fibre channel systems Edward C. Ross 2010-07-20
7719969 System and method for assigning network device port address based on link rate Edward C. McGlaughlin 2010-05-18