Inventor · Duluth, GA, US

Alan D. Clark

23Patents
12h-index
8Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 28, 1979 → Oct 21, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5253325A Data compression with dynamically compiled dictionary Electricity 191 Expired
US5153591A Method and apparatus for encoding, decoding and transmitting data in compressed form Electricity 147 Expired
US5627533A Adjusting encoding table size and memory allocation for data compression in response to input data Electricity 114 Expired
US7075981B1 Dynamic quality of service monitor Electricity 95 Expired
US5319682A Adaptive data compression system Electricity 89 Expired
US7058048B2 Per-call quality of service monitor for multimedia communications system Electricity 83 Expired
US6741569B1 Quality of service monitor for multimedia communications system Electricity 73 Expired
US5377189A Hybrid data communications systems Electricity 57 Expired
US5425022A Data switching nodes Electricity 47 Expired
US4829526A Data transmission Electricity 29 Expired
US5177480A Data communication having transmitter-controlled mode switching from compressed-to-transparent mode but local synchronous transmitter-controlled and receiver-controlled mode switching from transparent-to-compressed mode Electricity 28 Expired
US8094713B2 Method and system for viewer quality estimation of packet video streams Electricity 16 Active
US4993907A Stacking equipment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US4537574A Dental articulator Human Necessities 10 Expired
US8514928B2 Method and system for viewer quality estimation of packet video streams Electricity 7 Active
US9846011B1 Motion analysis unit Physics 5 Active
US7710879B2 System and method for improving the quality of real time multimedia sessions Electricity 4 Active
US4311366A Image focusing system Physics 4 Expired
US7808915B2 System for identifying and locating network problems Electricity 4 Active
US7869377B2 Method for estimating a subjective quality of a signal Electricity 3 Active
USD460361S1 Portion of a clock General 2 Expired
US7684324B2 System and method for prioritizing individual streams within a multimedia flow Electricity 2 Active
US7848243B2 Method and system for estimating modem and fax performance over packet networks Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.