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Bruce Schofield
Also filed as: SCHOFIELD BRUCE · SCHOFIELD BRUCE A
31 granted patents·8 pending applications·489 citations·filing 1991–2014
97Inventor score
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39 records- 0193US7437449B1System, device, and method for managing service level agreements in an optical communication systemNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 14, 2008·46 cites·34 claims
- 0287US7321932B1System, device, and method for managing connection establishment and related services in an optical communication systemNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 22, 2008·27 cites·31 claims
- 0385US6356680B1Method and system for removal of low order optical transmission modes to improve modal bandwidth in a multimode optical fiber computer networkENTERASYS NETWORKS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 12, 2002·26 cites·18 claims
- 0484US7738359B1System, device, and method for managing alternate site switching in an optical communication systemNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 15, 2010·18 cites·24 claims
- 0582US7849225B2System, device, and method for managing communication services in an optical communication systemCIENA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 7, 2010·15 cites·38 claims
- 0681US8000601B2Method and apparatus for securing fiber in an optical networkNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 16, 2011·9 cites·5 claims
- 0781US7493040B1Method and apparatus for securing fiber in an optical networkNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 17, 2009·19 cites·13 claims
- 0879US5144304AData and forward error control coding techniques for digital signalsDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 1, 1992·82 cites·26 claims
- 0977US8315159B2Utilizing optical bypass links in a communication networkMONGA INDERMOHAN·Filed 2009·Granted Nov 20, 2012·6 cites·20 claims
- 1077US8146090B2Time-value curves to provide dynamic QoS for time sensitive file transferTRAVOSTINO FRANCO·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 27, 2012·7 cites·14 claims
- 1176US7664838B2System and method for translating application program network service requests into actions and performing those actions through the management and/or control plane responsive to previously defined policies and previous requests by the same or another application programNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 16, 2010·18 cites·15 claims
- 1276US5138675AMode scrambler as an optical isolator for higher-coherence lasers in multi-mode fiber plantsDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1991·Granted Aug 11, 1992·43 cites·22 claims
- 1375US5396239AData and forward error control coding techniques for digital signalsDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 7, 1995·67 cites·23 claims
- 1474US7840692B1System, device, and method for bandwidth management in an optical communication systemCIENA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 23, 2010·9 cites·30 claims
- 1574US7698366B2Method and apparatus for facilitating the transportation of medical images on a communication networkAVAYA INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 13, 2010·13 cites·9 claims
- 1672US8949846B2Time-value curves to provide dynamic QoS for time sensitive file transfersTRAVOSTINO FRANCO·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 3, 2015·3 cites·14 claims
- 1763US7656823B1Automated network to SAN topology linkageNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 2, 2010·9 cites·18 claims
- 1862US9021130B1Photonic line sharing for high-speed routersSAHAY VASANT·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 28, 2015·9 cites·21 claims
- 1962US8943212B2System and method for translating application program network service requests into actions and performing those actions through the management and/or control plane responsive to previously defined policies and previous requests by the same or another application programMONGA INDERMOHAN·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 27, 2015·1 cites·18 claims
- 2062US6154589AMethod and system for removal of low order optical transmission modes in multimode optical fiber computer network to improve modal bandwidthCABLETRON SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 28, 2000·25 cites·37 claims
- 2161US7984154B2System and method for translating application program network service requests into actions and performing those actions through the management and/or control plane responsive to previously defined policies and previous requests by the same or another application programNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 19, 2011·1 cites·21 claims
- 2261US7958225B2Method and apparatus for monitoring the transportation of medical images on a communication networkAVAYA INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 7, 2011·7 cites·10 claims
- 2361US2005207658A1Method and apparatus for extracting information from a medical imageNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 2458US9225417B2Managing alternate site switching in an optical communication systemRPX CLEARINGHOUSE LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 29, 2015·0 cites·17 claims
- 2558US7283747B2Optical switch routerNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 16, 2007·5 cites·49 claims
- 2655US8494313B2Monitoring eDC polarization inverse filter coefficients to identify real-time physical intrusion into a core or metro optical networkSCHOFIELD BRUCE·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 23, 2013·1 cites·9 claims
- 2755US7079770B2System and apparatus for dropping and adding optical data streams in an optical communication networkNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 18, 2006·2 cites·26 claims
- 2853US9002148B2Monitoring eDC polarization inverse filter coefficients to identify real-time physical intrusion into a core or metro optical networkROCKSTAR CONSORTIUM US LP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 7, 2015·0 cites·9 claims
- 2953US2009074404A1System, Device and Method for Managing Alternate Site Switching in an Optical Communication SystemSURYAPUTRA STEPHEN·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3052US6556329B1Method and system for preventing low order optical transmission modes in multimode optical fiber computer network using annulus laserENTERASYS NETWORKS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 29, 2003·16 cites·38 claims
- 3151US2013077960A1Utilizing optical bypass links in a communication networkROCKSTAR CONSORTIUM US LP·Filed 2012·Application pending·0 cites
- 3250US2008034090A1Tender-Bid Method and Architecture For Intelligent Network Resource DeploymentNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 3349US8583449B2Method and apparatus for providing network based load balancing of medical image dataSCHOFIELD BRUCE·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 12, 2013·2 cites·14 claims
- 3446US7492932B2Method and apparatus for processing medical image data in a network environmentNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 17, 2009·3 cites·5 claims
- 3544US9129253B2Workflow locked loops to enable adaptive networks to change a policy statement responsive to mission level exceptions and reconfigure the software-controllable network responsive to network level exceptionsSCHOFIELD BRUCE·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 8, 2015·0 cites·16 claims
- 3641US2003035165A1System and apparatus for photonic switchingFiled 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 3741US2007106797A1Mission goal statement to policy statement translationNORTEL NETWORKS LTD·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 3839US2003012490A1Hybrid WDP/optical cross-connect network architectureFiled 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 3939US2002075541A1System, device, and method for producing optical data streams in an optical communication networkFiled 2000·Application pending·0 cites
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