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David Sheldon Stephenson
Also filed as: STEPHENSON DAVID · STEPHENSON DAVID S · STEPHENSON DAVID SHELDON
72 granted patents·6 pending applications·1,933 citations·filing 1997–2022
99Inventor score
Files withCISCO TECH INC31ARRIS ENTPR LLC13THOMSON ALLAN5RUCKUS WIRELESS INC4AT & T WIRELESS SERVICES INC3
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78 records- 0198US7149238B2Highly bandwidth-efficient communicationsCINGULAR WIRELESS II LLC·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 12, 2006·156 cites·20 claims
- 0298US6359923B1Highly bandwidth efficient communicationsAT & T WIRELESS SERVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 19, 2002·361 cites·30 claims
- 0397US7535884B2Battery-efficient generic advertising service for wireless mobile devicesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 19, 2009·57 cites·27 claims
- 0497US7352718B1Spatial division multiple access for wireless networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 1, 2008·140 cites·16 claims
- 0597US7301924B1Media access control for MIMO wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 27, 2007·140 cites·23 claims
- 0697US6621851B1Priority messaging method for a discrete multitone spread spectrum communications systemAT & T WIRELESS SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 16, 2003·185 cites·45 claims
- 0797US6480522B1Method of polling second stations for functional quality and maintenance data in a discrete multitone spread spectrum communications systemAT & T WIRELESS SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 12, 2002·157 cites·44 claims
- 0896US7106781B2Highly bandwidth-efficient communicationsCINGULAR WIRELESS II LLC·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 12, 2006·93 cites·50 claims
- 0995US7746897B2Expedited bandwidth request for emergency services for wireless clientsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 29, 2010·39 cites·19 claims
- 1095US7693526B2Enhanced load based wireless call admission controlCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 6, 2010·44 cites·26 claims
- 1195US7564795B2Obtaining per-port location information for wired LAN switchesCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 21, 2009·37 cites·13 claims
- 1294US7821986B2WLAN infrastructure provided directions and roamingCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 26, 2010·46 cites·40 claims
- 1393US7499718B2Enhanced coverage hole detection in wireless networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 3, 2009·29 cites·23 claims
- 1492US10448321B2Distribution of clients across a networkARRIS ENTPR LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 15, 2019·6 cites·14 claims
- 1592US8705388B2Channel-assignment for a multi-channel dual-radio mesh backhaulGONG XIAOHONG·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 22, 2014·13 cites·21 claims
- 1692US8169958B2Obtaining information regarding services available from a wireless local area networkTORRES ESTEBAN RAUL·Filed 2008·Granted May 1, 2012·40 cites·16 claims
- 1792US7995525B1Spatial division multiple access for wireless networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 9, 2011·18 cites·13 claims
- 1892US7457620B2Off-channel beacons in a wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 25, 2008·29 cites·22 claims
- 1991US11297560B2Establishing LWA-WLAN communicationARRIS ENTPR LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 5, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 2091US8879455B1Power management for multicast frames in wireless networksSTEPHENSON DAVID S·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 4, 2014·35 cites·18 claims
- 2191US8005030B2WLAN diagnostics using traffic stream metricsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 23, 2011·23 cites·35 claims
- 2291US7383046B2System and method for providing access points to assist in a handoff decision in a wireless environmentCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 3, 2008·22 cites·17 claims
- 2390US8566596B2Pre-association mechanism to provide detailed description of wireless servicesSTEPHENSON DAVID·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 22, 2013·20 cites·11 claims
- 2490US8204029B2Mobile intelligent roaming using multi-modal access point devicesSTEPHENSON DAVID SHELDON·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 19, 2012·40 cites·33 claims
- 2590US7929412B1Media access control for MIMO wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 19, 2011·13 cites·20 claims
- 2689US7944886B2Infrastructure-based enabling indication for dynamic frequency selection in wireless networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted May 17, 2011·17 cites·25 claims
- 2787US9253693B2Optimizing a neighbor list of access pointsCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 2, 2016·7 cites·18 claims
- 2886US11539454B2Service validation using emulated virtual clientsARRIS ENTPR LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 27, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 2986US8625507B1Media access control for MIMO wireless networkGURBUZ OZGUR·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 7, 2014·7 cites·20 claims
- 3086US7849216B2Channel assignment for a multi-channel dual-radio mesh backhaulCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 7, 2010·12 cites·18 claims
- 3184US11272361B2Zero-touch onboarding in a networkRUCKUS WIRELESS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 8, 2022·5 cites·20 claims
- 3283US10805867B2Establishing LWA-WLAN communicationRUCKUS WIRELESS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 13, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 3383US9236928B1Media access control for MIMO wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 12, 2016·4 cites·20 claims
- 3483US7768923B2Packet aging in a wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 3, 2010·11 cites·25 claims
- 3581US9131029B1Spatial division multiple access for wireless networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Sep 8, 2015·3 cites·20 claims
- 3681US8737328B1Spatial division multiple access for wireless networksPERAHIA ELDAD·Filed 2011·Granted May 27, 2014·4 cites·9 claims
- 3781US8077675B2Performance management of mobile intelligent roaming using mobility detail recordsSTEPHENSON DAVID SHELDON·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 13, 2011·17 cites·25 claims
- 3880US11271671B2WLAN testing using an RF abstraction layerARRIS ENTPR LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 8, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 3980US8040835B2Troubleshooting link and protocol in a wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 18, 2011·7 cites·17 claims
- 4079US8045532B2Location architecture for large scale networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 25, 2011·8 cites·27 claims
- 4179US7852759B2Finite state machine of traffic stream metrics for adaptation of load-based call admission control in wireless networksCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 14, 2010·8 cites·30 claims
- 4278US9763140B2Resource reservation on networks comprising wireless and wired segmentsMCBRIDE MICHAEL·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 12, 2017·5 cites·15 claims
- 4378US9226167B2Troubleshooting link and protocol in a wireless networkCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Dec 29, 2015·3 cites·8 claims
- 4477US12477454B2Distribution of clients across a networkRUCKUS IP HOLDINGS LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 18, 2025·0 cites·9 claims
- 4576US10574386B2WLAN testing using an RF abstraction layerARRIS ENTPR LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 25, 2020·3 cites·23 claims
- 4676US8543471B2System and method for securely accessing a wirelessly advertised serviceSALOWEY JOSEPH A·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 24, 2013·7 cites·20 claims
- 4775US9106348B2Using unscheduled automatic power save delivery to achieve coexistence with interfering sourcesTHOMSON ALLAN·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 11, 2015·4 cites·21 claims
- 4875US7468951B2Method and system for evaluting number of additional admissible calls for use in call admission controlCISCO TECH INC·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 23, 2008·6 cites·20 claims
- 4974US8396956B2Mobility service clustering using network service segmentsTHOMSON ALLAN·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 12, 2013·3 cites·18 claims
- 5073US10560348B2Network access device for facilitating the troubleshooting of network connectivity problemsARRIS ENTPR LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 11, 2020·2 cites·22 claims
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