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Douglas A. Smith
Also filed as: SMITH DOUGLAS · SMITH DOUGLAS A · Smith Douglas Andrew
43 granted patents·5 pending applications·1,687 citations·filing 1974–2018
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48 records- 0197US7350077B2802.11 using a compressed reassociation exchange to facilitate fast handoffCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 25, 2008·205 cites·42 claims
- 0296US7844057B2Roaming using reassociationCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 30, 2010·69 cites·20 claims
- 0395US6996714B1Wireless authentication protocolCISCO TECH IND·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 7, 2006·140 cites·47 claims
- 0495US5662381AChair construction and method of assemblySTEELCASE INC·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 2, 1997·106 cites·25 claims
- 0595USD355303SChairSTEELCASE INC·Filed 1993·Granted Feb 14, 1995·65 cites·1 claims
- 0694US7362776B2Method for multicast load balancing in wireless LANsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 22, 2008·84 cites·24 claims
- 0793US7561549B2Wireless local area network context control protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 14, 2009·28 cites·59 claims
- 0893US6138019ACellular system hand-off protocolCISCO SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 24, 2000·196 cites·6 claims
- 0993US6088591ACellular system hand-off protocolAIRONET WIRELESS COMMUNICATION·Filed 1996·Granted Jul 11, 2000·192 cites·46 claims
- 1093US5842264AChair construction and method of assemblySTEELCASE INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 1, 1998·74 cites·26 claims
- 1193US4056830AUtilizing data for transducer positioningBURROUGHS CORP·Filed 1977·Granted Nov 1, 1977·42 cites·9 claims
- 1292US5630643AUpholstered chair with two-piece shellSTEELCASE INC·Filed 1993·Granted May 20, 1997·100 cites·69 claims
- 1391US7706345B2Wireless local area network context control protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 27, 2010·19 cites·20 claims
- 1490US7188253B2Wireless authentication protocolCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 6, 2007·21 cites·28 claims
- 1590US5540481AChair with zero front rise controlSTEELCASE INC·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 30, 1996·69 cites·35 claims
- 1689US7013157B1Method for multicast delivery with designated acknowledgmentCISCO TECH IND·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 14, 2006·73 cites·31 claims
- 1788US4030130ATransducer head assembly and apparatus for using same in a plural- track record disk systemBURROUGHS CORP·Filed 1974·Granted Jun 14, 1977·27 cites·11 claims
- 1884USD351070SChairSTEELCASE INC·Filed 1993·Granted Oct 4, 1994·27 cites·1 claims
- 1981US10740377B2Identifying categories within textual dataIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 11, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 2080US8184564B2Staggering bursts of broadcast management frames in a wireless network device having a plurality of MAC addressesKINDER RICHARD D·Filed 2006·Granted May 22, 2012·13 cites·37 claims
- 2179US10242002B2Phenomenological semantic distance from latent dirichlet allocations (LDA) classificationIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 26, 2019·3 cites·12 claims
- 2279US10229184B2Phenomenological semantic distance from latent dirichlet allocations (LDA) classificationIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 12, 2019·3 cites·15 claims
- 2378US10339167B2System and method for generating full questions from natural language queriesIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 2, 2019·4 cites·14 claims
- 2478US10339168B2System and method for generating full questions from natural language queriesIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 2, 2019·3 cites·14 claims
- 2577US10157178B2Identifying categories within textual dataIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 18, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 2676US6343985B1Roof ridge ventilator system of natural fiber mattingBLOCKSOM & CO·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 5, 2002·31 cites·2 claims
- 2772US11295219B2Answering questions based on semantic distances between subjectsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 5, 2022·2 cites·8 claims
- 2872US4619190AVertical bed portable cooking grillSMITH DOUGLAS A·Filed 1985·Granted Oct 28, 1986·42 cites·20 claims
- 2970US10621219B2Techniques for determining a semantic distance between subjectsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 14, 2020·1 cites·12 claims
- 3068US10423649B2Natural question generation from query data using natural language processing systemIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 24, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 3167US8306027B2Method for multicast load balancing in wireless LANSMEIER ROBERT C·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 6, 2012·2 cites·16 claims
- 3265US9059925B2Method for multicast load balancing in wireless LANsMEIER ROBERT C·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 16, 2015·1 cites·18 claims
- 3364US4025859ADrive system for switched inductive loads particularly for multi-phase stepping motorsBURROUGHS CORP·Filed 1975·Granted May 24, 1977·14 cites·4 claims
- 3463US7760629B2Aggregate data frame generationCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 20, 2010·2 cites·16 claims
- 3556US11334607B2Identifying key words within a plurality of documentsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted May 17, 2022·0 cites·11 claims
- 3656USD360770SChairSTEELCASE INC·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 1, 1995·8 cites·1 claims
- 3754US10599694B2Determining a semantic distance between subjectsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 24, 2020·0 cites·8 claims
- 3852US11347777B2Identifying key words within a plurality of documentsIBM·Filed 2016·Granted May 31, 2022·0 cites·11 claims
- 3949US2018232623A1Techniques for answering questions based on semantic distances between subjectsIBM·Filed 2017·Application pending·0 cites
- 4046US4074326APlural-track record disk initialization systemBURROUGHS CORP·Filed 1977·Granted Feb 14, 1978·5 cites·2 claims
- 4146US2005060319A1Method for central planning and distributed control of client roaming and reassociationCISCO TECH IND·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4244US9201603B2Dynamic logical mappingHAMADA STEPHEN G·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 1, 2015·2 cites·18 claims
- 4340US10296574B2Contextual ink annotation in a mapping interfaceMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2016·Granted May 21, 2019·0 cites·15 claims
- 4439US2018293508A1Training question dataset generation from query dataIBM·Filed 2017·Application pending·0 cites
- 4535US2017277673A1Inking inputs for digital mapsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 4634USD340539SDesk lampCrackel·Filed 1992·Granted Oct 19, 1993·3 cites·1 claims
- 4731US5629404AImpact resistant polymers based on bisphenol-A-polycarbonateFiled 1995·Granted May 13, 1997·6 cites·8 claims
- 4827US2017078896A1Using network-provided information to tune wireless network client performanceLAIRD TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
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