Howard Locker
288Patents
25h-index
152Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 18, 1995 → Sep 7, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7945798B2 | Battery pack for portable computer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1,006 | Active |
| US9201458B2 | Nudge notification via shifting device battery | Electricity | 66 | Active |
| US6718464B2 | Method and system for customizing a client computer system configuration for a current user using BIOS settings downloaded from a server | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US7218944B2 | Frequency beacon to broadcast allowed frequency | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US7257108B2 | Determining the physical location of resources on and proximate to a network | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US6765550B2 | Privacy filter apparatus for a notebook computer display | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US7466678B2 | System and method for passive scanning of authorized wireless channels | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US5945915A | Computer system for sending an alert signal over a network when a cover of said system has been opened | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US6754826B1 | Data processing system and method including a network access connector for limiting access to the network | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6421792B1 | Data processing system and method for automatic recovery from an unsuccessful boot | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US9019088B2 | Modulation of haptic feedback | Physics | 41 | Active |
| US7143067B1 | System and method for installing personal computer software | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US6353854B1 | Automatic reconfiguration system for change in management servers having protocol destination addresses | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6272541A | Data processing system and method for determining a physical location of a client computer system coupled to a server via a physical network | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6286102A | Selective wireless disablement for computers passing through a security checkpoint | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6330624A | Access limiting to only a planar by storing a device public key only within the planar and a planar public key only within the device | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6282642A | System for presetting a first or second remote boot protocol by a computer remotely receiving and storing a boot parameter prior to being powered on | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US7113497B2 | Bandwidth management in a wireless network | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US6218941A | Method and system for detecting an authorized tamper event | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6026492A | Computer system and method to disable same when network cable is removed | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6647497B1 | Method and system for secure computer system transfer | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US6357007B1 | System for detecting tamper events and capturing the time of their occurrence | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US7003331B2 | Apparatus, method and program to optimize battery life in a wireless device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
| US6249812A | Interactive system support using a system management asic | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US6944867B2 | Method for providing a single preloaded software image with an ability to support multiple hardware configurations and multiple types of computer systems | Physics | 26 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.