Inventor · Woodside, CA, US

Bruce Fairman

62Patents
18h-index
30Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 26, 1977 → Apr 30, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6233611A Media manager for controlling autonomous media devices within a network environment and managing the flow and format of data between the devices Electricity 150 Expired
US5991520A Application programming interface for managing and automating data transfer operations between applications over a bus structure Electricity 82 Expired
US6421069B1 Method and apparatus for including self-describing information within devices Electricity 73 Expired
US5075805A Disk drive controller system Physics 62 Expired
US6496860B2 Media manager for controlling autonomous media devices within a network environment and managing the flow and format of data between the devices Electricity 47 Expired
US4849875A Computer address modification system with optional DMA paging Physics 39 Expired
US6233637A Isochronous data pipe for managing and manipulating a high-speed stream of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structure Electricity 39 Expired
US6169745A System and method for multi-level context switching in an electronic network Physics 32 Expired
US6453376B1 Method for implementing scheduling mechanisms with selectable resource modes Physics 31 Expired
US6539450B1 Method and system for adjusting isochronous bandwidths on a bus Electricity 30 Expired
US6243783A Application programming interface for managing and automating data transfer operations between applications over a bus structure Electricity 30 Expired
US5016121A Disk drive controller system Physics 30 Expired
US7069558B1 System and method for interactively utilizing a user interface to manage device resources Physics 30 Expired
US6389547B1 Method and apparatus to synchronize a bus bridge to a master clock Electricity 28 Expired
US6266727A Isochronous data pipe for managing and manipulating a high-speed stream of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structure Electricity 22 Expired
US5101339A Computer address modification system using writable mapping and page stores Physics 21 Expired
US6292844A Media storage device with embedded data filter for dynamically processing data during read and write operations Electricity 20 Expired
US4891752A Multimode expanded memory space addressing system using independently generated DMA channel selection and DMA page address signals Physics 18 Expired
US6631435B1 Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structure Electricity 18 Expired
US4979054A Disk drive for storing data in run length limited format and method of providing such format Physics 18 Expired
US6631415B1 Method and system for providing a communication connection using stream identifiers Electricity 18 Expired
US6810452B1 Method and system for quarantine during bus topology configuration Electricity 17 Expired
US6374316B1 Method and system for circumscribing a topology to form ring structures Electricity 16 Expired
US6167471A Method of and apparatus for dispatching a processing element to a program location based on channel number of received data Electricity 15 Expired
US6901474B2 Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structure Electricity 15 Expired

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