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William D. Croslin
Also filed as: CROSLIN WILLIAM D · CROSLIN WILLIAM DAVID
25 granted patents·1,184 citations·filing 1996–2000
97Inventor score
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25 records- 0185US6134671ASystem and method for dynamically generating restoration routes within a communications networkMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 17, 2000·103 cites·12 claims
- 0284US5881048AMethod and apparatus for determining maximum network failure spans forrestorationMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 9, 1999·82 cites·27 claims
- 0383US5737319ADynamic network topology determinationMCI CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 7, 1998·172 cites·18 claims
- 0478US5832196ADynamic restoration process for a telecommunications networkMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 3, 1998·110 cites·11 claims
- 0574US6295275B1Dynamic route generation for real-time network restoration using pre-plan route generation methodologyMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Sep 25, 2001·46 cites·16 claims
- 0673US5941992ADistributed method and system for excluding components from a restoral route in a communications networkMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 24, 1999·49 cites·16 claims
- 0772US6075766AMethod and apparatus for identifying restoral routes in a networkMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 13, 2000·79 cites·33 claims
- 0871US5995485AMethod and apparatus for isolating network failures by correlating paths issuing alarms with failure spansMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 30, 1999·54 cites·32 claims
- 0969US6327669B1Centralized restoration of a network using preferred routing tables to dynamically build an available preferred restoral routeMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 4, 2001·65 cites·23 claims
- 1064US5802144AMinimum common span network outage detection and isolationMCI CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Sep 1, 1998·50 cites·10 claims
- 1163US6018576AMethod and apparatus for automated node-based normalization after network restorationMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Jan 25, 2000·49 cites·29 claims
- 1263US5959969AMethod for initiating a distributed restoration processMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 28, 1999·29 cites·29 claims
- 1362US5991264AMethod and apparatus for isolating network failures by applying alarms to failure spansMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 23, 1999·48 cites·27 claims
- 1459US5999103AMethod and system for assigning spare transmission links to restoral routesMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 7, 1999·30 cites·18 claims
- 1559US5838660ADynamic restoration processMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 17, 1998·41 cites·8 claims
- 1654US6675373B1Automatic generation of balancing logic for data conversionUNIVERSAL CONVERSION TECHNOLOG·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 6, 2004·6 cites·18 claims
- 1752US6052796AMethod and system for augmenting communications network with spare capacityMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 18, 2000·29 cites·17 claims
- 1852US5958063AMethod and system for pre-patching a communications networkMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 28, 1999·17 cites·11 claims
- 1951US5943314AMethod and system of distributed network restoration with multiple failuresMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 24, 1999·27 cites·27 claims
- 2050US6347074B1Centralized method and system for excluding components from a restoral route in a communications networkMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 12, 2002·16 cites·18 claims
- 2149US6556538B1Integration of a centralized network restoration system with a distributed network restoration systemMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 29, 2003·11 cites·20 claims
- 2247US5883881AMethod for selecting preferred nodes for distributed network restorationMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 16, 1999·21 cites·20 claims
- 2346US6031819AMethod and system of distributed network restoration using preferred routesMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Feb 29, 2000·20 cites·26 claims
- 2446US5894566ASystem and method for emulating network outages a segmented architectureMCI COMMUNICATIONS CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 13, 1999·20 cites·21 claims
- 2538US5734811ASegment substitution/swap for network restoration pre-plansMCI CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 31, 1998·10 cites·28 claims
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