Inventor · Westborough, MA, US

Peter Bixby

29Patents
21h-index
48Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 30, 1988 → Jul 12, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5414455A Segmented video on demand system Electricity 616 Expired
US5442390A Video on demand with memory accessing and or like functions Electricity 532 Expired
US7873619B1 Managing metadata Physics 527 Active
US7096481B1 Preparation of metadata for splicing of encoded MPEG video and audio Electricity 232 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
US5287537A Distributed processing system having plural computers each using identical retaining information to identify another computer for executing a received command Physics 137 Expired
US6792047B1 Real time processing and streaming of spliced encoded MPEG video and associated audio Electricity 131 Expired
US8620973B1 Creating point-in-time copies of file maps for multiple versions of a production file to preserve file map allocations for the production file Physics 90 Active
US8006111B1 Intelligent file system based power management for shared storage that migrates groups of files based on inactivity threshold Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 86 Active
US8095577B1 Managing metadata Physics 63 Active
US8402226B1 Rate proportional cache write-back in a storage server Physics 58 Active
US5016162A Contention revolution in a digital computer system Physics 53 Expired
US7653832B2 Storage array virtualization using a storage block mapping protocol client and server Physics 42 Active
US7555504B2 Maintenance of a file version set including read-only and read-write snapshot copies of a production file Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Active
US9021303B1 Multi-threaded in-memory processing of a transaction log for concurrent access to data during log replay Physics 38 Active
US9213721B1 File server system having tiered storage including solid-state drive primary storage and magnetic disk drive secondary storage Physics 34 Active
US7865485B2 Multi-threaded write interface and methods for increasing the single file read and write throughput of a file server Physics 27 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
US8977898B1 Concurrent access to data during replay of a transaction log Physics 20 Active
US6889288B2 Reducing data copy operations for writing data from a network to storage of a cached data storage system by organizing cache blocks as linked lists of data fragments Physics 17 Expired
US8250035B1 Methods and apparatus for creating a branch file in a file system Physics 16 Active
US9542401B1 Using extents of indirect blocks for file mapping of large files Physics 10 Active

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