Inventor · Romsey, GB

Andrew Hickson

27Patents
7h-index
40Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 17, 1998 → Aug 20, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6154781A Publish and subscribe data processing with subscriber option to request subscription propagation prior to acknowledgement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 134 Expired
US6226641A Access control for groups of related data items Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 79 Expired
US6202093A Publish and subscribe data processing with ability to specify a local publication/subscription Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US6334151A Publish and subscribe data processing apparatus, method and computer program product with declaration of a unique publisher broker Physics 45 Expired
US6678802B2 Method and apparatus for controlling access by a plurality of concurrently operating processes to a resource Physics 34 Expired
US6094694A System for storing new messages in both full-length and abbreviated versions of message expiration data, and eliminating old, expired messages when a message is retrieved Physics 14 Expired
US8386577B2 Selection of communication protocol for message transfer based on quality of service requirements Electricity 9 Active
US8122118B2 Selection of communication protocol for message transfer based on quality of service requirements Electricity 7 Active
US6978400B2 Method, apparatus and computer program for reducing the amount of data checkpointed Physics 7 Expired
US6792604B1 Interprocess communication mechanism Physics 7 Expired
US7249163B2 Method, apparatus, system and computer program for reducing I/O in a messaging environment Electricity 6 Expired
US6147628A Efficient data conversion of list of strings Physics 5 Expired
US8606833B2 Method and system of committing operations of a synchronized transaction Physics 4 Active
US8082554B2 Event-based activation and deactivation of subscription matching Physics 4 Active
US7757119B2 Inherited transactions in asynchronous messaging Physics 3 Active
US8732228B2 Publishing documents in a publish/subscribe data processing system Physics 2 Active
US8276160B2 Managing queues in an asynchronous messaging system Physics 2 Active
US7240349B2 Persistent messaging in a transaction processing environment Physics 2 Expired
US9146788B2 Method, apparatus and computer program for administering messages which a consuming application fails to process Physics 1 Active
US8631418B2 System and method for messaging Physics 1 Active
US7487272B2 Using queue specific variable(s) to efficiently delete expired items in an ordered queue without necessarily checking each queued item's expiry time Physics 1 Active
US8166018B2 Browsing a list of data items Physics 0 Active
US9069614B2 Using a temporary object handle to control access to a resource object Physics 0 Active
US8055782B2 System and method for generating exception delay messages when messages are delayed Physics 0 Active
US9626235B2 Managing queues in an asynchronous messaging system Physics 0 Active

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