Inventor · Edinburgh, GB

Robert James Duncan

21Patents
11h-index
25Co-inventors
67Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 20, 1999 → Jul 29, 2005

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6704284B1 Management system and method for monitoring stress in a network Electricity 45 Expired
US7127526B1 Method and apparatus for dynamically loading and managing software services on a network device Physics 43 Expired
US6772205B1 Executing applications on a target network device using a proxy network device Electricity 39 Expired
US6978302B1 Network management apparatus and method for identifying causal events on a network Electricity 36 Expired
US7035619B1 System and method for integrating call detail records for a multiple network environment Electricity 35 Expired
US6766367B1 Method and apparatus for fetching sparsely indexed MIB tables in managed network systems Electricity 30 Expired
US7047536B1 Method and apparatus for classifying remote procedure call transport traffic Physics 21 Expired
US7433941B1 Method and apparatus for accessing network information on a network device Electricity 20 Expired
US7016955B2 Network management apparatus and method for processing events associated with device reboot Electricity 19 Expired
US7010588B2 System using a series of event processors for processing network events to reduce number of events to be displayed Electricity 17 Expired
US6976054B1 Method and system for accessing low-level resources in a network device Electricity 11 Expired
US6854113B1 Mixed-mode execution for object-oriented programming languages Physics 9 Expired
US6842781B1 Download and processing of a network management application on a network device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US7313608B1 Method and apparatus for using documents written in a markup language to access and configure network elements Physics 7 Expired
US7260621B1 Object-oriented network management interface Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US6845397B1 Interface method and system for accessing inner layers of a network protocol Electricity 5 Expired
US7385939B2 Network management apparatus and method for determining the topology of a network Electricity 4 Expired
US7283555B2 Method and apparatus for determining a polling interval in a network management system Electricity 3 Expired
US8782230B1 Method and apparatus for using a command design pattern to access and configure network elements Electricity 2 Expired
US7237012B1 Method and apparatus for classifying Java remote method invocation transport traffic Electricity 2 Expired
US7584299B2 Configuration of VPNs Electricity 2 Active

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