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Richard C. Schell — 34 Patents

Verizon: 34 patents #91 of 6,238Top 2%
Allen, TX: #73 of 1,376 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #3,248 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Richard C. Schell has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Verizon. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in April 2018. Richard C. Schell ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Richard C. Schell in Allen, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2014.peak 82010: 4 patents20102011: 6 patents20112012: 4 patents20122013: 5 patents20132014: 8 patents20142015: 5 patents20152016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9948497 System for and method of automatically discovering and configuring NIDs Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington, Vincent Alesi, William F. Copeland 2018-04-17 $72,085,000
9515985 Platform for private internet protocol (IP) cloud services William F. Copeland, Scott W. Gross, Thomas J. O'Keefe, Luis M. Tomotaki 2016-12-06 $42,845,000
9143406 Apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium for calculating throughput requirements of a network Michelle A. Waggener, Michael U. Bencheck, Scott R. Kotrla, Matthew W. Turlington, Christopher N. DelRegno 2015-09-22 $40,076,000
9077479 Method and system for adjusting network interface metrics Scott R. Kotrla, Christopher N. DelRegno, Matthew W. Turlington, Michael U. Bencheck 2015-07-07 $23,600,000
8976797 System and method for indicating classification of a communications flow Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington, Nick DelRegno +4 more 2015-03-10 $33,549,000
8966052 Error detection and reporting Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +3 more 2015-02-24 $31,306,000
8948207 System and method for transporting time-division multiplexed communications through a packet-switched access network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2015-02-03 $33,659,000
8913621 System and method for a communications access network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2014-12-16 $28,974,000
8913623 Method and apparatus for processing labeled flows in a communications access network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2014-12-16 $28,974,000
8891381 Path testing and switching Scott R. Kotrla, Christopher N. Del Regno, Matthew W. Turlington, Michael U. Bencheck 2014-11-18 $59,464,000
8891519 System and method for monitoring, controlling and provisioning a telecommunications access network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2014-11-18 $59,464,000
8737218 Method and system for adjusting bandwidth using multiple timers Matthew W. Turlington, Scott R. Kotrla, Christopher N. DelRegno, Michael U. Bencheck 2014-05-27 $42,639,000
8724461 Method and system for providing auto-bandwidth adjustment Christopher N. DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, Matthew W. Turlington, Michael U. Bencheck 2014-05-13 $56,619,000
8681611 System and method for controlling communication Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2014-03-25 $58,545,000
8630188 Monitoring link aggregation links Scott R. Kotrla, Howard Chiu, Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +2 more 2014-01-14 $33,417,000
8565085 Link aggregation Scott R. Kotrla, Howard Chiu, Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +2 more 2013-10-22 $38,031,000
8488476 Providing applets to remote devices in a communications network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +3 more 2013-07-16 $43,215,000
8472327 Apparatus and method for testing and fault isolation in a communication network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +3 more 2013-06-25 $33,289,000
8437262 Disabled state and state signaling for link aggregation Scott R. Kotrla, Howard Chiu, Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +2 more 2013-05-07 $113,472,000
8406131 System and method for monitoring and analyzing network traffic Scott R. Kotrla, Christopher N. DelRegno, Matthew W. Turlington, Michael U. Bencheck 2013-03-26 $34,556,000
8289973 System and method for indicating classification of a communications flow Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2012-10-16 $47,879,000
8249082 System method for a communications access network Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +4 more 2012-08-21 $44,044,000
8218569 Apparatus and method for terminating service emulation instances Nick DelRegno, Scott R. Kotrla, David E. McDysan, Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +3 more 2012-07-10 $48,811,000
8149706 Method and system for adjusting bandwidth using multiple timers Matthew W. Turlington, Scott R. Kotrla, Christopher N. DelRegno, Michael U. Bencheck 2012-04-03 $71,928,000
8036134 Disabled state and state signaling for link aggregation Scott R. Kotrla, Howard Chiu, Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Michael U. Bencheck, Matthew W. Turlington +2 more 2011-10-11 $82,266,000