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Inventor

Alexander A. Smith

Inventor
Carrollton, TX, US

Overview

14→
Patents
1996–2014
Patent span
Electricity
Primary field (CPC H)

Patents· 14 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

H04Lprimary
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication54%
H04JMultiplex communication21%
H04QSelecting21%
Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests4%
PatentTitleYear
8,774,232'Systems and methods of measuring latency and routing thereon in optical networks'20148,682,158'Systems and methods for detecting line flapping in optical networks'20148,572,485'Splitting and merging routing domains'20138,553,586'Systems and methods for automatically building and repairing a spanning tree flooding backbone in link state routed networks'20138,417,111'Optical network in-band control plane signaling, virtualized channels, and tandem connection monitoring systems and methods'20138,089,866'Spanning tree flooding backbone systems and methods for link state routed networks'20127,554,975'Protocol agnostic switching'20097,245,585'Method and system for transmitting traffic in a virtual tunnel of a transmission line'20076,700,868'Switching redundancy control'20046,658,006'System and method for communicating data using modified header bits to identify a port'20036,370,115'Ethernet device and method for applying back pressure'20026,359,858'Switching redundancy control'20025,604,742'Communications system and method for efficient management of bandwidth in a FDDI station'19975,519,701'Architecture for high performance management of multiple circular FIFO storage means'1996

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1996–1997Patents assigned to IBM (2)· patent assignee history
1996–2007Based in Carrollton, TX, US· patent location history
2002–2004Patents assigned to FUJITSU NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS (3)· patent assignee history
2009Based in Cupertino, CA, US· patent location history
2012–2014Patents assigned to CIENA CORP (6)· patent assignee history
2012–2014Patents assigned to SMITH ALEXANDER A (5)· patent assignee history
2012–2014Based in Marietta, GA, US· patent location history
2013–2014Patents assigned to MADRAHALLI VAGISH (3)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
CIENA CORP62012–2014
SMITH ALEXANDER Aself52012–2014
FUJITSU NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS32002–2004
MADRAHALLI VAGISH32013–2014
IBM21996–1997
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Carrollton, Texas, US71996–2007
Marietta, Georgia, US62012–2014
Cupertino, California, US12009