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Shashank Merchant — 186 Patents

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Showing 151–175 of 186 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6778547 Method and apparatus for improving throughput of a rules checker logic 2004-08-17
6775290 Multiport network switch supporting multiple VLANs per port Robert Alan Williams 2004-08-10
6771654 Apparatus and method for sharing memory using a single ring data bus connection configuration Jinqlih Sang 2004-08-03
6760338 Apparatus and method for monitoring data frames by a shared switching logic during simultaneous accessing of multiple network switch buffers Jinqlih Sang 2004-07-06
6744776 Servicing priority traffic in multiport network switch Mohan Kalkunte, Phil Simons 2004-06-01
6741589 Apparatus and method for storing data segments in a multiple network switch system using a memory pool Jinqlih Sang 2004-05-25
6731596 Network switch having system for automatically detecting change in network node connection John M. Chiang, Robert Alan Williams 2004-05-04
6732184 Address table overflow management in a network switch Ching Yu 2004-05-04
6680945 Method and apparatus for support of tagging and untagging per VLAN per port Robert Alan Williams 2004-01-20
6658015 Multiport switch with plurality of logic engines for simultaneously processing different respective data frames Chandan Egbert, John M. Chiang 2003-12-02
6636523 Flow control using rules queue monitoring in a network switching system Michael Lau 2003-10-21
6625146 Method and apparatus for operating a network switch in a CPU-less environment Robert Alan Williams, Ching Yu 2003-09-23
6584106 Backbone forwarding scheme for multiport network switch Robert Alan Williams 2003-06-24
6546010 Bandwidth efficiency in cascaded scheme Ching Yu, Robert Alan Williams 2003-04-08
6535489 Method and apparatus in a network switch for handling link failure and link recovery in a trunked data path Robert Alan Williams, John M. Chiang, Ching Yu 2003-03-18
6515993 Method and apparatus for manipulating VLAN tags Robert Alan Williams, Bahadir Erimli 2003-02-04
6507564 Method and apparatus for testing aging function in a network switch 2003-01-14
6501734 Apparatus and method in a network switch for dynamically assigning memory interface slots between gigabit port and expansion port Ching Yu, Xiaohua Zhuang, Bahadir Erimli, John M. Chiang, Robert Alan Williams +5 more 2002-12-31
6480490 Interleaved access to address table in network switching system John M. Chiang 2002-11-12
6463032 Network switching system having overflow bypass in internal rules checker Michael Lau, John M. Chiang 2002-10-08
6460088 Method and apparatus for port vector determination at egress 2002-10-01
6442137 Apparatus and method in a network switch for swapping memory access slots between gigabit port and expansion port Ching Yu, Xiaohua Zhuang, Bahadir Erimli, John M. Chiang, Robert Alan Williams +5 more 2002-08-27
6405258 Method and apparatus for controlling the flow of data frames through a network switch on a port-by-port basis Bahadir Erimli, Robert Williams 2002-06-11
6335938 Multiport communication switch having gigaport and expansion ports sharing the same time slot in internal rules checker John M. Chiang, Michael Lau 2002-01-01
6330248 Arrangement for transmitting data packets from a media access controller across multiple physical links Gopal Krishna, Mohan Kalkunte 2001-12-11