Robert M. Fries
88Patents
25h-index
93Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 13, 1995 → Mar 11, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6317885A | Interactive entertainment and information system using television set-top box | Electricity | 648 | Expired |
| US6425125B1 | System and method for upgrading client software | Physics | 357 | Expired |
| US6990677B1 | Application program interfaces for electronic program guide data services | Electricity | 243 | Expired |
| US7899788B2 | Using a data protection server to backup and restore data on virtual servers | Physics | 208 | Active |
| US7613750B2 | Creating frequent application-consistent backups efficiently | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 110 | Active |
| US5745095A | Compositing digital information on a display screen based on screen descriptor | Physics | 105 | Expired |
| US6904609B1 | Systems and methods for electronic program guide data services | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US7890951B2 | Model-based provisioning of test environments | Electricity | 64 | Active |
| US8011010B2 | Using antimalware technologies to perform offline scanning of virtual machine images | Physics | 64 | Active |
| US6973664B2 | Television tuning device screen saver advertising | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US7194753B1 | System and method for efficiently tuning to channels of a variety of different broadcast types | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US8205194B2 | Updating offline virtual machines or VM images | Physics | 52 | Active |
| US6637027B1 | System and method for controlling access to broadcast services | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US6892390B1 | Methods and systems for broadcast data services | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US8001577B2 | Interactive entertainment and information system using television set-top box | Electricity | 45 | Active |
| US8161479B2 | Synchronizing virtual machine and application life cycles | Physics | 43 | Active |
| US8078587B2 | Configuring a data protection system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Active |
| US7603687B2 | Systems and methods for electronic program guide data services | Electricity | 39 | Active |
| US7689676B2 | Model-based policy application | Physics | 39 | Active |
| US8190571B2 | Managing data with backup server indexing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Active |
| US8549513B2 | Model-based virtual system provisioning | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US7036023B2 | Systems and methods for detecting tampering of a computer system by calculating a boot signature | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US9286182B2 | Virtual machine snapshotting and analysis | Physics | 25 | Active |
| US9176773B2 | Virtual machine migration tool | Electricity | 25 | Active |
| US5936677A | Microbuffer used in synchronization of image data | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.