Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Randall B. Baird

45Patents
14h-index
46Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 17, 1992 → Jul 23, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5550982A Video application server Electricity 197 Expired
US5381413A Data throttling system for a communications network Electricity 104 Expired
US5802394A Method for accessing one or more streams in a video storage system using multiple queues and maintaining continuity thereof Physics 93 Expired
US5732239A Method for operating a disk storage system which stores video data so as to maintain the continuity of a plurality of video streams Physics 72 Expired
US8081205B2 Dynamically switched and static multiple video streams for a multimedia conference Electricity 59 Active
US5581784A Method for performing I/O's in a storage system to maintain the continuity of a plurality of video streams Physics 43 Expired
US8286183B2 Techniques for task management using presence Physics 31 Active
US7596150B2 System and method for consolidating media signaling to facilitate internet protocol (IP) telephony Electricity 30 Active
US5734925A Method for scheduling I/O transactions in a data storage system to maintain the continuity of a plurality of video streams Physics 28 Expired
US5754882A Method for scheduling I/O transactions for a data storage system to maintain continuity of a plurality of full motion video streams Physics 23 Expired
US7724780B2 Synchronization of one or more source RTP streams at multiple receiver destinations Electricity 21 Active
US8121277B2 Catch-up playback in a conferencing system Electricity 20 Active
US7886001B2 Method and apparatus for controlling actions based on triggers in a conference Physics 18 Active
US7916653B2 Measurement of round-trip delay over a network Electricity 16 Active
US7693190B2 Lip synchronization for audio/video transmissions over a network Electricity 11 Active
US7797383B2 Techniques for managing multi-window video conference displays Electricity 11 Active
US6178480A Method for operating an array of video storage units Physics 11 Expired
US7539179B1 Scalable packet-switched call control signaling Electricity 9 Expired
US5721950A Method for scheduling I/O transactions for video data storage unit to maintain continuity of number of video streams which is limited by number of I/O transactions Physics 9 Expired
US7894597B2 Categorization of telephone calls Electricity 9 Active
US8457214B2 Video compositing of an arbitrary number of source streams using flexible macroblock ordering Electricity 8 Active
US8769011B2 Survivable browsing in virtualized desktop environment when host connectivity is lost Electricity 7 Active
US9225763B2 Distributed overlay browser for transparent streaming media support in virtualized desktop environment Electricity 7 Active
US8116236B2 Audio conferencing utilizing packets with unencrypted power level information Electricity 7 Active
US8149261B2 Integration of audio conference bridge with video multipoint control unit Electricity 7 Active

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