Inventor · Union City, CA, US

Robert E. Novak

34Patents
19h-index
16Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 19, 2000 → Jan 31, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8434103B2 Method of substituting content during program breaks Electricity 248 Active
US7103905B2 System and method to provide media programs for synthetic channels Electricity 236 Expired
US9710535B2 Object storage system with local transaction logs, a distributed namespace, and optimized support for user directories Electricity 221 Active
US9747319B2 Read-modify-write processing of chunks at the storage server level in a distributed object storage system Electricity 170 Active
US10185730B2 Methods and systems for key-value-tuple-encoded storage Electricity 169 Active
US7032177B2 Method and system for distributing personalized editions of media programs using bookmarks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 168 Expired
US9767130B2 Methods and systems for key sharding of objects stored in distributed storage system Electricity 166 Active
US6865555B2 System and method for providing conditional access to digital content Electricity 136 Expired
US7320137B1 Method and system for distributing personalized editions of media programs using bookmarks Electricity 126 Expired
US6972787B1 System and method for tracking an object with multiple cameras Electricity 75 Expired
US7243123B1 Video call routing with presence determination Electricity 51 Expired
US7006613B2 System and method for screening incoming video communications within an interactive television system Electricity 47 Expired
US7111320B1 System and method for personalized remote control of an interactive television system Electricity 46 Expired
USD468274S1 Remote control General 45 Expired
USD462333S1 Remote control General 29 Expired
US7142230B2 System and method for screening incoming and outgoing video communications within an interactive television system Electricity 28 Expired
US7034927B1 System and method for identifying an object using invisible light Electricity 26 Expired
US7071968B2 System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture Electricity 22 Expired
US7209633B1 System and methods for logical memory devices in a digital media player Physics 20 Expired
US7518629B2 System and method for screening video communications within an interactive television system Electricity 17 Active
US7453825B1 Apparatus and methods for point-to-point links in robust networks Electricity 12 Active
US7593041B2 System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture Electricity 10 Active
US9479587B2 Scalable object storage using multicast transport Electricity 9 Active
US7206500B1 System and methods for recording broadcast programs, converting the programs and managing the storage in a digital media playback device Electricity 8 Expired
US9923970B2 Multicast collaborative erasure encoding and distributed parity protection Electricity 7 Active

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