Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Frederick J. Smith

44Patents
10h-index
71Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 10, 1978 → Jan 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4446534A Programmable fuse circuit Physics 56 Expired
US8407689B2 Updating nodes considering service model constraints Physics 54 Active
US4242604A MOS Input circuit with selectable stabilized trip voltage Electricity 40 Expired
US7447896B2 OS mini-boot for running multiple environments Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Active
US7756821B2 Virtual deletion in merged file system directories Physics 20 Active
US6260537A Side feed fuel injector and integrated fuel rail/intake manifold Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 18 Expired
US9898354B2 Operating system layering Physics 15 Active
US7581051B2 Method for delivering interrupts to user mode drivers Physics 14 Expired
US7114164B2 Systems and methods for injecting an exception into a target thread Physics 14 Expired
US4283310A P.V.C. Compositions for extrusion moulding Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US10375111B2 Anonymous containers Physics 10 Active
US8539481B2 Using virtual hierarchies to build alternative namespaces Physics 10 Active
US10855725B2 Hardware-based virtualized security isolation Electricity 9 Active
US8245035B2 Merging registry keys Physics 8 Active
US10380081B2 Pre-building containers Physics 6 Active
US8312459B2 Use of rules engine to build namespaces Physics 6 Active
US8280908B2 Merging file system directories Physics 6 Active
US7716382B2 Rich targeting criteria for selection of driver packages Physics 5 Active
US6886112B2 Recovering from device failure Physics 5 Expired
US10650157B2 Securing virtual execution environments Physics 5 Active
US4283315A Gramophone record composition Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US10333985B2 Distribution and management of services in virtual environments Electricity 3 Active
US7555775B2 Recovering from device failure Physics 3 Active
US7996841B2 Building alternative views of name spaces Physics 3 Active
US8713096B2 State control of remote hosts for management of distributed applications Physics 2 Active

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