Inventor · Bellevue, WA, US

John R. Douceur

125Patents
37h-index
85Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 6, 1994 → May 12, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6389433B1 Method and system for automatically merging files into a single instance store Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 370 Expired
US6477544B1 Single instance store for file systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 359 Expired
US6041053A Technique for efficiently classifying packets using a trie-indexed hierarchy forest that accommodates wildcards Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 291 Expired
US6021203A Coercion resistant one-time-pad cryptosystem that facilitates transmission of messages having different levels of security Electricity 268 Expired
US8368695B2 Transforming offline maps into interactive online maps Physics 265 Active
US7043637B2 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system Electricity 212 Expired
US6134596A Continuous media file server system and method for scheduling network resources to play multiple files having different data transmission rates Electricity 182 Expired
US5764645A IP/ATM network adaptation Electricity 121 Expired
US6988124B2 Locating potentially identical objects across multiple computers based on stochastic partitioning of workload Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 109 Expired
US6178423A System and method for recycling numerical values in a computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 105 Expired
US7062490B2 Serverless distributed file system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US5907685A System and method for synchronizing clocks in distributed computer nodes Electricity 91 Expired
US7401220B2 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system Electricity 85 Expired
US6067547A Hash table expansion and contraction for use with internal searching Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 84 Expired
US6247061A Method and computer program product for scheduling network communication packets originating from different flows having unique service requirements Electricity 83 Expired
US5995971A Apparatus and accompanying methods, using a trie-indexed hierarchy forest, for storing wildcard-based patterns and, given an input key, retrieving, from the forest, a stored pattern that is identical to or more general than the key Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 79 Expired
US7415608B2 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system Electricity 77 Expired
US6834386B1 Method and system for regulating background tasks using performance measurements Physics 75 Expired
US7159110B2 Identifying and coalescing identical objects encrypted with different keys Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US6401126B1 File server system and method for scheduling data streams according to a distributed scheduling policy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US7334154B2 Efficient changing of replica sets in distributed fault-tolerant computing system Physics 60 Expired
US7444387B2 Locating potentially identical objects across multiple computers based on stochastic partitioning of workload Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Active
US7539867B2 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system Electricity 59 Expired
US6381740B1 Method and system for incrementally improving a program layout Physics 58 Expired
US7428751B2 Secure recovery in a serverless distributed file system Electricity 55 Expired

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