Peter M. Melliar-Smith
14Patents
11h-index
9Co-inventors
65Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 16, 1975 → May 22, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6360363B1 | Live upgrade process for object-oriented programs | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 90 | Expired |
| US7251745B2 | Transparent TCP connection failover | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US7305582B1 | Consistent asynchronous checkpointing of multithreaded application programs based on active replication | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US4164017A | Computer systems | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US5216675A | Reliable broadcast protocol | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US6928577B2 | Consistent message ordering for semi-active and passive replication | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US7206964B2 | Consistent asynchronous checkpointing of multithreaded application programs based on semi-active or passive replication | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US7185236B1 | Consistent group membership for semi-active and passive replication | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US7228452B2 | Transparent consistent semi-active and passive replication of multithreaded application programs | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US8473833B2 | Forward error correction method | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US8230316B2 | Forward error correction for burst and random packet loss for real-time multi-media communication | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US6922792B2 | Fault tolerance for computer programs that operate over a communication network | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Expired |
| US7334014B2 | Consistent time service for fault-tolerant distributed systems | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US7231554B2 | Transparent consistent active replication of multithreaded application programs | Physics | 6 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.