Bruce Fairman
62Patents
18h-index
30Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 26, 1977 → Apr 30, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.