Inventor · Foster City, CA, US

Alan T. Ruberg

39Patents
18h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 28, 1991 → May 2, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5793365A System and method providing a computer user interface enabling access to distributed workgroup members Electricity 979 Expired
US5960173A System and method enabling awareness of others working on similar tasks in a computer work environment Electricity 355 Expired
US6185737A Method and apparatus for providing multi media network interface Electricity 280 Expired
US6223289A Method and apparatus for session management and user authentication Electricity 143 Expired
US6349327B1 System and method enabling awareness of others working on similar tasks in a computer work environment Electricity 118 Expired
US6438141B1 Method and management of communications over media of finite bandwidth Electricity 117 Expired
US6484174B1 Method and apparatus for session management and user authentication Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 91 Expired
US6466982B1 Exclusive use of peripheral devices Physics 78 Expired
US5630042A Method and apparatus for providing collection browsers Physics 75 Expired
US6895588B1 Remote device access over a network Electricity 61 Expired
US5261098A Method and apparatus for deriving object type and obtaining object type attribute values Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US7085805B1 Remote device management in grouped server environment Physics 48 Expired
US6538668B1 Distributed settings control protocol Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US7187307B1 Method and system for encapsulation of multiple levels of communication protocol functionality within line codes Electricity 42 Expired
US6654806B2 Method and apparatus for adaptably providing data to a network environment Electricity 32 Expired
US6785894B1 Virtual device driver Physics 30 Expired
US7346689B1 Computer architecture having a stateless human interface device and methods of use Electricity 29 Expired
US6675054B1 Method and apparatus of supporting an audio protocol in a network environment Electricity 23 Expired
US6694379B1 Method and apparatus for providing distributed clip-list management Electricity 17 Expired
US6993617B2 System-on-a-chip having an on-chip processor and an on-chip dynamic random access memory (DRAM) Physics 14 Expired
US6512467B1 Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring device using device code Physics 14 Expired
US6230296A Method and apparatus for providing error correction Physics 13 Expired
US9240784B2 Single-ended configurable multi-mode driver Electricity 11 Active
US8510487B2 Hybrid interface for serial and parallel communication Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US9071243B2 Single ended configurable multi-mode driver Electricity 4 Active

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