Inventor · Los Gatos, CA, US

Ralph D. Hill

16Patents
11h-index
18Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 13, 1994 → Aug 30, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7233948B1 Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 369 Expired
US5594911A System and method for preprocessing and delivering multimedia presentations Electricity 82 Expired
US6005600A High-performance player for distributed, time-based media Electricity 74 Expired
US7055039B2 Protection of digital content using block cipher crytography Electricity 65 Expired
US5577258A Apparatus and method for preprocessing multimedia presentations to generate a delivery schedule Electricity 51 Expired
US8526610B2 Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Electricity 40 Active
US5696948A Apparatus for determining round trip latency delay in system for preprocessing and delivering multimedia presentations Electricity 33 Expired
US8130952B2 Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Electricity 28 Active
US6792468B1 Frame-accurate transport of media data across a data network Electricity 19 Expired
US7448062B1 Seamless playback of multiple clips of media data across a data network Electricity 17 Expired
US5706486A Method for preprocessing multimedia presentations to generate a delivery schedule Electricity 11 Expired
US7822201B2 Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Electricity 10 Active
US7809138B2 Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Electricity 6 Active
US9532005B2 Methods and apparatus for persistent control and protection of content Electricity 3 Active
US7979860B2 Method for estimating cost when placing operations within a modulo scheduler when scheduling for processors with a large number of function units or reconfigurable data paths Physics 3 Active
US7093255B1 Method for estimating cost when placing operations within a modulo scheduler when scheduling for processors with a large number of function units or reconfigurable data paths Physics 1 Expired

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