James Peter Ward
100Patents
30h-index
78Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 9, 1983 → Feb 28, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6177860A | Method and economical direct connected apparatus for deploying and tracking computers | Physics | 259 | Expired |
| US6249227A | RFID integrated in electronic assets | Electricity | 254 | Expired |
| US6493104B1 | Data processing system and method for permitting a computer to automatically detect a presence of and establish a communications link with a printer | Physics | 133 | Expired |
| US6954147B1 | Method and system for providing protection against theft and loss of a portable computer system | Physics | 122 | Expired |
| US6601097B1 | Method and system for determining the physical location of computers in a network by storing a room location and MAC address in the ethernet wall plate | Electricity | 108 | Expired |
| US6170059A | Tracking memory modules within a computer system | Physics | 101 | Expired |
| US6778096B1 | Method and apparatus for deploying and tracking computers | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US6154790A | Monitoring and reporting hard disk drives identification using radio frequency | Physics | 72 | Expired |
| US5974500A | Memory device having programmable access protection and method of operating the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 72 | Expired |
| US6105136A | Computer system which is disabled when it is disconnected from a network | Physics | 72 | Expired |
| US6978385B1 | Data processing system and method for remote recovery of a primary password | Physics | 67 | Expired |
| US6175927A | Alert mechanism for service interruption from power loss | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 65 | Expired |
| 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 |
| US6046676A | Self powered electronic memory identification tag with dual communication ports | Physics | 61 | Expired |
| US7257108B2 | Determining the physical location of resources on and proximate to a network | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US6480972B1 | Data processing system and method for permitting a server to remotely perform diagnostics on a malfunctioning client computer system | Physics | 54 | 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 |
| 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 |
| US6353854B1 | Automatic reconfiguration system for change in management servers having protocol destination addresses | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US7143067B1 | System and method for installing personal computer software | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US6021493A | System and method for detecting when a computer system is removed from a network | Electricity | 34 | 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 |
| US6256732A | Computer system having automatic registration for in-box configuration | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.