Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Robert M. Fries

88Patents
25h-index
93Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 13, 1995 → Mar 11, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.