Inventor · Chicago, IL, US

Michael Spertus

45Patents
18h-index
46Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 11, 1997 → Aug 16, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8176480B1 Adaptive instrumentation through dynamic recompilation Physics 272 Active
US7529785B1 Efficient backups using dynamically shared storage pools in peer-to-peer networks Physics 167 Active
US8250657B1 Web site hygiene-based computer security Physics 163 Active
US7783600B1 Redundancy management service for peer-to-peer networks Physics 98 Active
US8001606B1 Malware detection using a white list Physics 78 Active
US7051056B2 Conservative garbage collectors that can be used with general memory allocators Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US6938245B1 Interactive debugging system with debug data base system Physics 39 Expired
US7434105B1 Selective self-healing of memory errors using allocation location information Physics 39 Active
US8180893B1 Component-level sandboxing Physics 39 Active
US7917481B1 File-system-independent malicious content detection Physics 30 Active
US8201224B1 Systems and methods for temporarily adjusting control settings on computing devices Electricity 25 Active
US6518979B1 Automatically-maintained customizable user interfaces Physics 23 Expired
US7831560B1 Snapshot-aware secure delete Physics 22 Active
US8458232B1 Systems and methods for identifying data files based on community data Physics 20 Active
US8176079B1 Restricting access to network resources through recursive URL classification Physics 20 Active
US7805717B1 Pre-computed dynamic instrumentation Physics 19 Active
US7739689B1 Internal monitoring of applications in a distributed management framework Physics 18 Active
US6055612A Incremental garbage collector with decommit barrier Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US6584478B1 Transparent garbage collection of resources Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US7707555B2 Interactive debugging system with debug data base system Physics 13 Active
US7926106B1 Utilizing early exclusive volume access and direct volume manipulation to remove protected files Physics 13 Active
US7634521B1 Technique for scanning stealthed, locked, and encrypted files Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US8938808B1 Systems and methods for using virtualization to implement information rights management Electricity 12 Active
US8392992B1 Method and apparatus for preventing sensitive data leakage due to input focus misappropriation Physics 11 Active
US9888024B2 Detection of security incidents with low confidence security events Electricity 9 Active

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