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ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    119
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ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS INC has a total of 119 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1990. It filed its patents most often in United States, Canada and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets digital networks, telecommunications and computer technology are INTERACTIC HOLDINGS LLC, STRATACOM INC and NEWBRIDGE NETWORKS CORP.

Patent filings in countries

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Patent filings per year

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Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Ganmukhi Mahesh N 50
#2 Deangelis Patrick L 23
#3 Hebb Andrew T 17
#4 Yang Tao 15
#5 Palnati Prasasth R 15
#6 Bremer Clark 10
#7 White David J 9
#8 Cherian Sanjay G 9
#9 Duncanson Jay P 8
#10 Baracka Ronald Louis Jr 8

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US6711153B1 Route lookup engine
US6587463B1 Packet classification engine
US6463067B1 Submission and response architecture for route lookup and packet classification requests
US6667959B1 Switch fabric testing
AU4081499A Explicit rate marking for flow control in ATM networks
US6570854B1 System and method for performing explicit rate marking for flow control in ATM networks using a virtual bandwidth-based methodology
US6072397A Method and apparatus for reducing flame emissions from an electronics enclosure
US6396838B1 Management of free space in an ATM virtual connection parameter table
EP1064749A1 Independently sizable memory pages for a plurality of connection id types in a network switch
US6320864B1 Logical multicasting method and apparatus
US6097726A Virtual path merging in a multipoint-to-point network tunneling protocol
US6094685A Use of control blocks to map multiple unidirectional connections
AU6788598A Hierarchical packet scheduling method and apparatus
AU6665298A System and method for providing unitary virtual circuit in digital network having communication links of diverse service types
US6055575A Virtual private network system and method
US5987520A Closed user group preprocessing decision for efficient call security validation
US6233243B1 Method and apparatus for performing cut-through virtual circuit merging
US6032190A System and method for processing data packets
US6553002B1 Apparatus and method for routing data packets through a communications network
US5903564A Efficient multicast mapping in a network switch