Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Peter B. Kessler

25Patents
15h-index
32Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 1995 → Jun 30, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5737607A Method and apparatus for allowing generic stubs to marshal and unmarshal data in object reference specific data formats Physics 197 Expired
US6032199A Transport independent invocation and servant interfaces that permit both typecode interpreted and compiled marshaling Physics 182 Expired
US6009464A Method and apparatus for enabling application programs to communicate with network clients and servers Physics 150 Expired
US5640564A Method and apparatus for generating and using short operation identifiers in object oriented systems Physics 149 Expired
US5758186A Method and apparatus for generically handling diverse protocol method calls in a client/server computer system Electricity 133 Expired
US8799879B2 Method and apparatus for protecting translated code in a virtual machine Physics 113 Active
US5999988A Method and apparatus for generating and employing a run-time generated stub to reference an object in object oriented systems Physics 102 Expired
US6697848B2 Method and apparatus for enabling application programs to communicate with network clients and servers Physics 86 Expired
US6044224A Mechanism for dynamically associating a service dependent representation with objects at run time Physics 85 Expired
US6298477A Method and apparatus for selecting ways to compile at runtime Physics 45 Expired
US6157961A Client-side stub interpreter Physics 28 Expired
US7389395B1 Split-reference, two-pass mark-compaction Physics 24 Active
US6681306B1 Method and apparatus for increasing scavenging garbage collection effectiveness Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US7716449B2 Efficient chunked java object heaps Physics 22 Active
US5815708A Method and apparatus for dynamically loading method call exception code in response to a software method exception generated in a client/server computer system Physics 18 Expired
US6718550B1 Method and apparatus for improving the performance of object invocation Physics 15 Expired
US6412019B1 Method and mechanism for invocation on objects with interface inheritance Physics 12 Expired
US6941556B1 Method and system for type identification for multiple object interfaces in a distributed object environment Physics 5 Expired
US6430638B1 Thread synchronization via selective object locking Physics 5 Expired
US6260074A Method and apparatus for passing generic objects in a distributed system Physics 4 Expired
US6167458A Transport independent invocation and servant interfaces that permit both typecode interpreted and compiled marshaling Physics 4 Expired
US9223637B1 Method and apparatus to advise spin and yield decisions Physics 3 Active
US6389484B1 Transport independent invocation and servant interfaces that permit both typecode interpreted and compiled marshaling Physics 2 Expired
US7730278B2 Chunk-specific executable code for chunked java object heaps Physics 2 Active
US7890711B2 Methods, apparatus, and program products for improved finalization Physics 0 Active

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