Barry Thornton
33Patents
15h-index
8Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 16, 1978 → Mar 22, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5557698A | Coaxial fiber optical cable | Electricity | 206 | Expired |
| US7370336B2 | Distributed computing infrastructure including small peer-to-peer applications | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US7161557B2 | Selectively updating a display in a multi-display system | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US6119146A | Computer network having multiple remotely located human interfaces sharing a common computing system | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US6012101A | Computer network having commonly located computing systems | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US7139809B2 | System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5966056A | Method and apparatus for enabling the transmission of multiple wide bandwidth electrical signals | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US6038616A | Computer system with remotely located interface where signals are encoded at the computer system, transferred through a 4-wire cable, and decoded at the interface | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US6385666B1 | Computer system having remotely located I/O devices where signals are encoded at the computer system through two encoders and decoded at I/O devices through two decoders | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US6735658B1 | System and method for combining computer video and remote universal serial bus in an extended cable | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6633934B1 | Computer system having reduced cabling requirements | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7370083B2 | System and method for providing virtual network attached storage using excess distributed storage capacity | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US7430616B2 | System and method for reducing user-application interactions to archivable form | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US7434220B2 | Distributed computing infrastructure including autonomous intelligent management system | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US7328261B2 | Distributed resource manager | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US7318095B2 | Data fail-over for a multi-computer system | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6426970B1 | Bi-directional signal coupler method and apparatus | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US9959717B2 | Security and first-responder emergency lighting system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Active |
| US6886055B2 | Computer on a card with a remote human interface | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7069368B2 | System of co-located computers in a framework including removable function modules for adding modular functionality | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US4160216A | Apparatus for eliminating on-off transitional gain variations in class AB, B and C active element amplifiers | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US7325033B2 | Video conferencing system using video manager to provide picture-in-picture image to display devices located remotely from co-located computing systems | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7043748B2 | Computer network comprising computing systems with remotely located human interfaces | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Expired |
| US6037884A | Technique to encode multiple digital data streams in limited bandwidth for transmission in a single medium | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US6944826B2 | Method of operating a system of co-located computers and remote human interfaces | Physics | 4 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.