Inventor · Chapel Hill, NC, US

Richard E. Harper

62Patents
17h-index
75Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 28, 1988 → Sep 30, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6629266B1 Method and system for transparent symptom-based selective software rejuvenation Physics 135 Expired
US9208007B2 Open resilience framework for simplified and coordinated orchestration of multiple availability managers Physics 123 Active
US6795928B2 Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Expired
US4907232A Fault-tolerant parallel processing system Physics 70 Expired
US4937741A Synchronization of fault-tolerant parallel processing systems Physics 52 Expired
US6964539B2 Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6978398B2 Method and system for proactively reducing the outage time of a computer system Physics 44 Expired
US6810495B2 Method and system for software rejuvenation via flexible resource exhaustion prediction Physics 40 Expired
US6594784B1 Method and system for transparent time-based selective software rejuvenation Physics 36 Expired
US6820215B2 System and method for performing automatic rejuvenation at the optimal time based on work load history in a distributed data processing environment Physics 29 Expired
US7958509B2 Method and system for scheduling of jobs Physics 28 Active
US7966614B2 Controlling an availability policy for a virtual machine based on changes in a real world environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Active
US7282873B2 Mutual active cancellation of fan noise and vibration Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 24 Expired
US6675316B1 Method and system for recovery of the state of a failed CPU/cache/memory node in a distributed shared memory system Physics 22 Expired
US5269016A Byzantine resilient fault tolerant shared memory data processing system Physics 20 Expired
US7770064B2 Recovery of application faults in a mirrored application environment Physics 18 Active
US7925389B2 Method of detecting recirculation of heated air within a rack enclosure Physics 17 Active
US7463950B1 Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems Electricity 13 Active
US7933739B2 Automated analysis of datacenter layout using temperature sensor positions Physics 11 Active
US7421368B2 Detection of airflow anomalies in electronic equipment Physics 10 Active
US8091127B2 Heuristic malware detection Physics 9 Active
US7930573B2 Workload apportionment according to mean and variance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US9798635B2 Service level agreement-based resource allocation for failure recovery Physics 6 Active
US6996751B2 Method and system for reduction of service costs by discrimination between software and hardware induced outages Physics 6 Expired
US6018812A Reliable wafer-scale integrated computing systems Physics 6 Expired

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