Inventor · Newton, MA, US

John Forecast

26Patents
19h-index
38Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 10, 1996 → Dec 23, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6230200A Dynamic modeling for resource allocation in a file server Physics 451 Expired
US5892915A System having client sending edit commands to server during transmission of continuous media from one clip in play list for editing the play list Electricity 446 Expired
US5987621A Hardware and software failover services for a file server Physics 321 Expired
US5933603A Video file server maintaining sliding windows of a video data set in random access memories of stream server computers for immediate video-on-demand service beginning at any specified location Electricity 320 Expired
US5974503A Storage and access of continuous media files indexed as lists of raid stripe sets associated with file names Physics 251 Expired
US7096481B1 Preparation of metadata for splicing of encoded MPEG video and audio Electricity 232 Expired
US6625750B1 Hardware and software failover services for a file server Electricity 201 Expired
US6678332B1 Seamless splicing of encoded MPEG video and audio Electricity 183 Expired
US6871006B1 Processing of MPEG encoded video for trick mode operation Electricity 155 Expired
US6061504A Video file server using an integrated cached disk array and stream server computers Physics 132 Expired
US6792047B1 Real time processing and streaming of spliced encoded MPEG video and associated audio Electricity 131 Expired
US6499039B1 Reorganization of striped data during file system expansion in a data storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 78 Expired
US8402226B1 Rate proportional cache write-back in a storage server Physics 58 Active
US8990799B1 Direct memory access through virtual switch in device driver Physics 33 Active
US9485310B1 Multi-core storage processor assigning other cores to process requests of core-affined streams Physics 30 Active
US8180973B1 Servicing interrupts and scheduling code thread execution in a multi-CPU network file server Physics 28 Active
US7174561B2 MPEG dual-channel decoder data and control protocols for real-time video streaming Electricity 25 Expired
US7444662B2 Video file server cache management using movie ratings for reservation of memory and bandwidth resources Electricity 24 Expired
US6907081B2 MPEG encoder control protocol for on-line encoding and MPEG data storage Electricity 21 Expired
US9645628B1 Combined data storage and computing appliance that provides scalable storage in a clustered computing environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US8671414B1 Accelerating data intensive computing applications by reducing overhead associated with communication protocols Physics 9 Active
US9898316B1 Extended fractional symmetric multi-processing capabilities to guest operating systems Physics 9 Active
US7617216B2 Metadata offload for a file server cluster Physics 8 Active
US9336166B1 Burst buffer appliance with operating system bypass functionality to facilitate remote direct memory access Physics 5 Active
US7158976B1 Spatial domain mechanism Physics 2 Expired

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