Inventor · Clyde Hill, WA, US

Ralph Lipe

54Patents
27h-index
48Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 13, 1988 → May 21, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5655148A Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information Physics 357 Expired
US7379874B2 Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines Physics 317 Active
US5787246A System for configuring devices for a computer system Physics 242 Expired
US6336152B1 Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information Physics 181 Expired
US6957184B2 Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system Physics 172 Expired
US5748980A System for configuring a computer system Physics 135 Expired
US5809329A System for managing the configuration of a computer system Physics 117 Expired
US5758352A Common name space for long and short filenames Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 111 Expired
US5392427A System for updating data stored on a flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory (FEPROM) based upon predetermined bit value of indicating pointers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 107 Expired
US5819107A Method for managing the assignment of device drivers in a computer system Physics 101 Expired
US5548759A System for storing executable code within a resource data section of an executable file Physics 82 Expired
US6286013A Method and system for providing a common name space for long and short file names in an operating system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Expired
US5793979A System for allocating the resources of a computer system Physics 74 Expired
US6003097A System for automatically configuring a network adapter without manual intervention by using a registry data structure maintained within a computer system memory Physics 71 Expired
USRE35881E Method and system for traversing linked list record based upon write-once predetermined bit value of secondary pointers General 68 Expired
US5627964A Reduce or fail-safe bootstrapping of a system having a graphical user interface Physics 67 Expired
US4974159A Method of transferring control in a multitasking computer system Physics 60 Expired
US5596755A Mechanism for using common code to handle hardware interrupts in multiple processor modes Physics 59 Expired
US8151280B2 Simple and dynamic configuration of network devices Electricity 56 Active
US5247658A Method and system for traversing linked list record based upon write-once predetermined bit value of secondary pointers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Expired
US5579517A Common name space for long and short filenames Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US5694606A Mechanism for using common code to handle hardware interrupts in multiple processor modes Physics 53 Expired
US7389234B2 Method and apparatus utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language Physics 52 Expired
US5634046A General purpose use of a stack pointer register Physics 43 Expired
US6763454B2 System for allocating resources in a computer system Physics 41 Expired

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