Assignee
MCDATA CORP
US·41 granted patents·7 pending applications·2,693 citations·filing 1995–2009
Top patents by PatentIndex Score
48 records- 0196US6240096B1Fibre channel switch employing distributed queuingMCDATA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted May 29, 2001·109 cites·22 claims
- 0295US7606968B2Multi-level content addressable memoryMCDATA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 20, 2009·39 cites·20 claims
- 0395US6532212B1Trunking inter-switch linksMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 11, 2003·237 cites·21 claims
- 0492US7609654B2Method of evaluating network connectivity between network resourcesMCDATA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 27, 2009·57 cites·22 claims
- 0592US6608819B1Method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 19, 2003·70 cites·31 claims
- 0692US5835496AMethod and apparatus for data alignmentMCDATA CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 10, 1998·165 cites·13 claims
- 0791US6975963B2Method and system for storing and reporting network performance metrics using histogramsMCDATA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 13, 2005·119 cites·15 claims
- 0891US6819654B2Trunking inter-switch linksMCDATA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 16, 2004·92 cites·24 claims
- 0991US6233236B1Method and apparatus for measuring traffic within a switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 15, 2001·131 cites·20 claims
- 1090US5894481AFiber channel switch employing distributed queuingMCDATA CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 13, 1999·209 cites·20 claims
- 1187US7133416B1Converting data signals in a multiple communication protocol system area networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 7, 2006·74 cites·46 claims
- 1287US6138185AHigh performance crossbar switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 24, 2000·159 cites·24 claims
- 1386US7382736B2Method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 3, 2008·28 cites·23 claims
- 1486US6031842ALow latency shared memory switch architectureMCDATA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 29, 2000·138 cites·6 claims
- 1584US5872822AMethod and apparatus for memory sequencingMCDATA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 16, 1999·119 cites·15 claims
- 1683US6862293B2Method and apparatus for providing optimized high speed link utilizationMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 1, 2005·30 cites·22 claims
- 1780US6381642B1In-band method and apparatus for reporting operational statistics relative to the ports of a fibre channel switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 30, 2002·125 cites·24 claims
- 1880US5748612AMethod and apparatus for implementing virtual circuits in a fibre channel systemMCDATA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted May 5, 1998·133 cites·29 claims
- 1979US6941252B2Striping data frames across parallel fibre channel linksMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 6, 2005·30 cites·24 claims
- 2079US6804245B2Compact, shared route lookup table for a fiber channel switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 12, 2004·34 cites·17 claims
- 2179US6728803B1Interconnection architecture for managing multiple low bandwidth connections over a high bandwidth linkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 27, 2004·26 cites·17 claims
- 2278US5828475ABypass switching and messaging mechanism for providing intermix data transfer for a fiber optic switch using a bypass bus and bufferMCDATA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 27, 1998·116 cites·11 claims
- 2376US6721862B2Method and circuit for replicating data in a fiber channel network, or the likeMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 13, 2004·37 cites·41 claims
- 2475US6014715AMethod and apparatus for assigning port addressesMCDATA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 11, 2000·82 cites·6 claims
- 2573US6347334B1Self-description extended link service for networksMCDATA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 12, 2002·82 cites·21 claims
- 2671US6148004AMethod and apparatus for establishment of dynamic ESCON connections from fibre channel framesMCDATA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 14, 2000·74 cites·11 claims
- 2768US7953866B2Protocols for connecting intelligent service modules in a storage area networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted May 31, 2011·4 cites·55 claims
- 2868US7906734B2Electrical terminal footprints for a printed circuit boardMCDATA CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 15, 2011·7 cites·24 claims
- 2965US6763029B2Low latency shared memory switch architectureMCDATA CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 13, 2004·8 cites·24 claims
- 3063US7952997B2Congestion management groupsMCDATA CORP·Filed 2006·Granted May 31, 2011·2 cites·34 claims
- 3162US6606322B2Route lookup caching for a fiber channel switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 12, 2003·16 cites·28 claims
- 3260US6192048B1Method and apparatus for implementing hunt group support for a crosspoint controllerMCDATA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 20, 2001·53 cites·27 claims
- 3357US6556953B2Automatic testing of redundant switching element and automatic switchoverMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 29, 2003·6 cites·27 claims
- 3455US8014315B2Method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 6, 2011·0 cites·20 claims
- 3555US6510161B2Low latency shared memory switch architectureMCDATA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 21, 2003·27 cites·12 claims
- 3654US7848253B2Method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 7, 2010·0 cites·19 claims
- 3752US6643602B2Automatic testing of redundant switching element and automatic switchoverMCDATA CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 4, 2003·3 cites·2 claims
- 3851US6975623B2Interconnection architecture for managing multiple low bandwidth connections over a high bandwidth linkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 13, 2005·2 cites·9 claims
- 3949US7054312B2Multi-rate shared memory architecture for frame storage and switchingMCDATA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted May 30, 2006·2 cites·18 claims
- 4049US6061358AData communication system utilizing a scalable, non-blocking, high bandwidth central memory controller and methodMCDATA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted May 9, 2000·30 cites·34 claims
- 4145US6115361ALink incident reporting extended link service for networksMCDATA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 5, 2000·18 cites·16 claims
- 4242US2007258380A1Fault detection, isolation and recovery for a switch system of a computer networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 4341US2007147364A1Local and remote switching in a communications networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4441US2007258443A1Switch hardware and architecture for a computer networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 4541US2007058620A1Management of a switch fabric through functionality conservationMCDATA CORP·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4640US2007038679A1Dynamic configuration updating in a storage area networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4738US2007061813A1Distributed embedded software for a switchMCDATA CORP·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4838US2007211640A1Switch testing in a communications networkMCDATA CORP·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
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