Robert E. Novak
34Patents
19h-index
16Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 19, 2000 → Jan 31, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.