Inventor · Lompoc, CA, US

Peter M. Melliar-Smith

14Patents
11h-index
9Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 16, 1975 → May 22, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.