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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%
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Overall (All Time): #7,859 of 4,157,543Top 1%
134
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 101–125 of 134 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7684398 Hardware-enforced loop-level hard zoning for fibre channel switch fabric William R. George 2010-03-23
7684401 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 2010-03-23
7669001 Method and system for using application specific integrated circuits Mark A. Owen, Leonard W. Haseman 2010-02-23
7649903 Method and system for managing traffic in fibre channel systems Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Mark A. Owen 2010-01-19
7646767 Method and system for programmable data dependant network routing Edward C. McGlaughlin, Steven M. Betker 2010-01-12
7630384 Method and system for distributing credit in fibre channel systems Ernest G. Kohlwey, Edward C. Ross, Mark A. Owen 2009-12-08
7613816 Method and system for routing network information Edward C. Ross, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss 2009-11-03
7609710 Method and system for credit management in a networking system Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss 2009-10-27
7593997 Method and system for LUN remapping in fibre channel networks Edward C. Ross, Steven M. Betker 2009-09-22
7583597 Method and system for improving bandwidth and reducing idles in fibre channel switches Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss 2009-09-01
7580354 Multi-speed cut through operation in fibre channel switches Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss 2009-08-25
7573909 Method and system for programmable data dependant network routing Ernest G. Kohlwey, Craig M. Verba 2009-08-11
7558281 Method and system for configuring fibre channel ports Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey 2009-07-07
7548560 Method and system for checking frame-length in fibre channel frames Ernest G. Kohlwey, Edward C. Ross 2009-06-16
7525983 Method and system for selecting virtual lanes in fibre channel switches Edward C. Ross, William J. Gustafson 2009-04-28
7525968 Method and system for auto routing fibre channel class F frames in a fibre channel fabric Ernest G. Kohlwey, Brel E. Indrelee 2009-04-28
7522522 Method and system for reducing latency and congestion in fibre channel switches Craig M. Verba 2009-04-21
7522529 Method and system for detecting congestion and over subscription in a fibre channel network Edward C. Ross 2009-04-21
7519058 Address translation in fibre channel switches 2009-04-14
7518995 Method and system for managing frame flow in fibre channel systems Ernest G. Kohlwey, Mark A. Owen 2009-04-14
7512067 Method and system for congestion control based on optimum bandwidth allocation in a fibre channel switch Gary M. Papenfuss 2009-03-31
7477655 Method and system for power control of fibre channel switches Charles M. Comp 2009-01-13
7466700 LUN based hard zoning in fibre channel switches William J. Gustafson, Gary M. Papenfuss 2008-12-16
7447224 Method and system for routing fibre channel frames Gary M. Papenfuss 2008-11-04
7430175 Method and system for managing traffic in fibre channel systems Craig M. Verba, Gary M. Papenfuss, Ernest G. Kohlwey, Mark A. Owen 2008-09-30