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Ian Crayford
Also filed as: CRAYFORD IAN · CRAYFORD IAN S · CRAYFORD IAN STEPHEN
56 granted patents·2,362 citations·filing 1990–2022
99Inventor score
Files withADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC37SMARTBOTICS INC7BROADCOM CORP5NORTEL NETWORKS LTD4KINNEXA INC2
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56 records- 0195US9644799B2LED light bulb construction and manufactureSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 9, 2017·36 cites·21 claims
- 0293US9800429B2Adaptive home and commercial automation devices, methods and systems based on the proximity of controlling elementsSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 24, 2017·57 cites·21 claims
- 0389US10088112B2LED light bulb construction and manufactureSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 2, 2018·6 cites·35 claims
- 0488US7936744B2Network telephony systemBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 3, 2011·12 cites·24 claims
- 0586US6192028B1Method and apparatus providing programmable thresholds for half-duplex flow control in a network switchADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 20, 2001·74 cites·18 claims
- 0686US5890100AChip temperature monitor using delay linesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 30, 1999·62 cites·15 claims
- 0786US5432775AAuto negotiation system for a communications networkADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1993·Granted Jul 11, 1995·110 cites·18 claims
- 0886US5404544ASystem for periodically transmitting signal to/from sleeping node identifying its existence to a network and awakening the sleeping node responding to received instructionADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1992·Granted Apr 4, 1995·131 cites·16 claims
- 0985US6167054AMethod and apparatus providing programmable thresholds for full-duplex flow control in a network switchADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 26, 2000·65 cites·20 claims
- 1084US6487212B1Queuing structure and method for prioritization of frames in a network switchADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 26, 2002·140 cites·24 claims
- 1183US6885657B1Network telephony systemBROADCOM CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 26, 2005·77 cites·72 claims
- 1283US6122669AMethod and apparatus for auto-incrementing through table and updating single register in memoryADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 19, 2000·52 cites·16 claims
- 1383US5610903AAuto negotiation system for a communications networkADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Mar 11, 1997·120 cites·21 claims
- 1480US7457857B1Method and apparatus for a network hub to diagnose network operation and broadcast information to a remote host or monitoring deviceBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 25, 2008·27 cites·41 claims
- 1579US6078627ACircuit and method for multilevel signal decoding, descrambling, and error detectionADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 20, 2000·109 cites·17 claims
- 1679US5673254AEnhancements to 802.3 media access control and associated signaling schemes for ethernet switchingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 30, 1997·112 cites·39 claims
- 1778US6151316AApparatus and method for synthesizing management packets for transmission between a network switch and a host controllerADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 21, 2000·101 cites·31 claims
- 1877US11424953B2Modular physical layer and integrated connector module for local area networksKINNEXA INC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 23, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 1977US5943206AChip temperature protection using delay linesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 24, 1999·41 cites·25 claims
- 2076US8051160B2Method and apparatus for a network hub to diagnose network operation and broadcast information to a remote host or monitoring deviceBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 1, 2011·5 cites·18 claims
- 2176US6269098B1Method and apparatus for scaling number of virtual lans in a switch using an indexing schemeADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 31, 2001·35 cites·11 claims
- 2275US10670196B2LED light bulb construction and manufactureSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 2, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 2375US10465857B2LED light bulb construction and manufactureSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 5, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 2475US5550803AMethod and system for increasing network information carried in a data packet via packet taggingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 27, 1996·74 cites·42 claims
- 2574US5859837AFlow control method and apparatus for ethernet packet switched hubADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jan 12, 1999·90 cites·14 claims
- 2672US5305321AEthernet media access controller with external address detection interface and associated methodADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1992·Granted Apr 19, 1994·65 cites·19 claims
- 2771US8619758B2Network telephony systemRABENKO THEODORE F·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 31, 2013·2 cites·20 claims
- 2870US6556589B2Network transceiver for steering network data to selected paths based on determined link speedsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 29, 2003·33 cites·13 claims
- 2970US6255969B1Circuit and method for high speed bit stream capture using a digital delay lineADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 3, 2001·24 cites·18 claims
- 3070US6128654AMethod and apparatus for transmitting multiple copies by replicating data identifiersADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 3, 2000·70 cites·18 claims
- 3168US11736316B2Modular physical layer and integrated connector module for local area networksKINNEXA INC·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 22, 2023·0 cites·26 claims
- 3268US6016308AMethod and system for increasing network information carried in a data packet via packet taggingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jan 18, 2000·53 cites·36 claims
- 3368US5539737AProgrammable disrupt of multicast packets for secure networksADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1994·Granted Jul 23, 1996·53 cites·7 claims
- 3468US5467369AAUI to twisted pair loopbackADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1994·Granted Nov 14, 1995·42 cites·2 claims
- 3567US5592486ASystem and method for efficiently monitoring information in a network having a plurality of repeatersADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jan 7, 1997·58 cites·35 claims
- 3666US5850515AIntrusion control in repeater based networksADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 15, 1998·57 cites·32 claims
- 3765US5164960AMedium attachment unit for use with twisted pair local area networkADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1990·Granted Nov 17, 1992·36 cites·5 claims
- 3862US6970419B1Method and apparatus for preserving frame ordering across aggregated links between source and destination nodesNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 29, 2005·35 cites·22 claims
- 3960US6084878AExternal rules checker interfaceADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 4, 2000·41 cites·15 claims
- 4057US9019957B2Network telephony systemBROADCOM CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 28, 2015·0 cites·20 claims
- 4157US5257287AAutomatic polarity detection and correction method and apparatus employing linkpulsesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1990·Granted Oct 26, 1993·32 cites·45 claims
- 4256US5940392AProgrammable address mapping matrix for secure networksADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 17, 1999·27 cites·19 claims
- 4354US12119952B2Adaptive home and commercial LED lighting devices, supporting dual power of modes, methods and systems based on the proximity of controlling elementsSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 15, 2024·0 cites·22 claims
- 4454US11221110B2LED light bulb construction and manufactureSMARTBOTICS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 11, 2022·0 cites·8 claims
- 4554US6704296B1Optimized MII for 802.3u (100 BASE-T) fast ethernet PHYsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 9, 2004·32 cites·1 claims
- 4653US6977892B2Method and apparatus for preserving flow order across links of a multi link trunkNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 20, 2005·21 cites·25 claims
- 4753US5414694AAddress tracking over repeater based networksADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1993·Granted May 9, 1995·25 cites·7 claims
- 4848US5654985AAddress tracking over repeater based networksADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 5, 1997·22 cites·11 claims
- 4946US6970420B1Method and apparatus for preserving frame ordering across aggregated links supporting a plurality of quality of service levelsNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 29, 2005·14 cites·24 claims
- 5045US5640393AMultiple address security architectureADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 17, 1997·18 cites·49 claims
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