Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

James M. Lyon

31Patents
13h-index
64Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 9, 1987 → May 18, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6442620B1 Environment extensibility and automatic services for component applications using contexts, policies and activators Physics 187 Expired
US6546443B1 Concurrency-safe reader-writer lock with time out support Physics 142 Expired
US4819267A Solid state key for controlling access to computer systems and to computer software and/or for secure communications Physics 123 Expired
US8001189B2 Routing of network messages Electricity 55 Active
US7900002B2 Multi-client cluster-based backup and restore Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Active
US9445305B2 Low energy beacon encoding Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US6041420A Multi-volume audit trails for fault tolerant computers Physics 25 Expired
US7441092B2 Multi-client cluster-based backup and restore Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Active
US5590274A Multi-volume audit trails for fault tolerant computers Physics 18 Expired
US5832203A Method for providing recovery from a failure in a system utilizing distributed audit Physics 16 Expired
US7447857B2 Multi-client cluster-based backup and restore Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US7398315B2 Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by preventing connection hijacking and domain spoofing Electricity 15 Active
US5576945A Transaction monitor process with pre-arranged modules for a multiprocessor system Physics 13 Expired
US7552176B2 Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzles Electricity 12 Active
US8225232B2 Dynamic configuration of unified messaging state changes Electricity 12 Active
US5978914A Method and apparatus for preventing inadvertent changes to system-critical files in a computing system Physics 8 Expired
US8478755B2 Sorting large data sets Physics 7 Active
US8473956B2 Priority based scheduling system for server Physics 6 Active
US8239648B2 Reclamation of thin provisioned disk storage Physics 6 Active
US7921173B2 Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzles Electricity 5 Active
US7831629B2 Method for building data encapsulation layers for highly variable schema Physics 4 Active
US9713174B2 Connection tethering and service remoting Electricity 4 Active
US8675518B2 Message transport system using publication and subscription mechanisms Electricity 3 Active
US7437711B2 Communication among agile and context-bound objects Physics 2 Expired
US9280433B2 Hardware diagnostics and software recovery on headless server appliances Physics 1 Active

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