Inventor · Owego, NY, US

Eric M. Foster

41Patents
22h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 4, 1991 → Jul 2, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6038630A Shared access control device for integrated system with multiple functional units accessing external structures over multiple data buses Physics 166 Expired
US6275507A Transport demultiplexor for an MPEG-2 compliant data stream Electricity 114 Expired
US5202943A Optoelectronic assembly with alignment member Physics 105 Expired
US6091772A Black based filtering of MPEG-2 compliant table sections Electricity 94 Expired
US6115422A Protocol and procedure for time base change in an MPEG-2 compliant datastream Electricity 77 Expired
US6714826B1 Facility for simultaneously outputting both a mixed digital audio signal and an unmixed digital audio signal multiple concurrently received streams of digital audio data Electricity 76 Expired
US6078594A Protocol and procedure for automated channel change in an MPEG-2 compliant datastream Electricity 70 Expired
US6181706A Common buffer for multiple streams and control registers in an MPEG-2 compliant transport register Electricity 59 Expired
US6662329B1 Processing errors in MPEG data as it is sent to a fixed storage device Electricity 50 Expired
US6026506A Concealing errors in transport stream data Electricity 45 Expired
US6356567B2 Embedded clock recovery and difference filtering for an MPEG-2 compliant transport stream Electricity 43 Expired
US6101591A Method and system for selectively independently or simultaneously updating multiple system time clocks in an MPEG system Electricity 42 Expired
US6851056B2 Control function employing a requesting master id and a data address to qualify data access within an integrated system Physics 39 Expired
US7356707B2 Initializing, maintaining, updating and recovering secure operation within an integrated system employing a data access control function Physics 39 Active
US6240492A Memory interface for functional unit of integrated system allowing access to dedicated memory and shared memory, and speculative generation of lookahead fetch requests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US7266842B2 Control function implementing selective transparent data authentication within an integrated system Physics 37 Expired
US7089419B2 Control function with multiple security states for facilitating secure operation of an integrated system Physics 32 Expired
US6229801A Delivery of MPEG2 compliant table data Electricity 30 Expired
US6311161A System and method for merging multiple audio streams Electricity 27 Expired
US6715085B2 Initializing, maintaining, updating and recovering secure operation within an integrated system employing a data access control function Physics 26 Expired
US6195403A Pulse generator for a voltage controlled oscillator Electricity 25 Expired
US7356147B2 Method, system and program product for attaching a title key to encrypted content for synchronized transmission to a recipient Electricity 24 Expired
US6072771A Detection of errors in table data Electricity 17 Expired
US6654835B1 High bandwidth data transfer employing a multi-mode, shared line buffer Electricity 15 Expired
US6088357A Auxiliary transport assist processor especially for an MPEG-2 compliant decoder Electricity 15 Expired

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