Inventor · Plano, TX, US

Robert Maher

45Patents
17h-index
33Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 2, 1989 → Aug 3, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6741595B2 Device for enabling trap and trace of internet protocol communications Electricity 217 Expired
US6654373B1 Content aware network apparatus Electricity 181 Expired
US6381242B1 Content processor Electricity 172 Expired
US7471683B2 Device for enabling trap and trace of internet protocol communications Electricity 168 Active
US6957258B2 Policy gateway Electricity 97 Expired
US7058974B1 Method and apparatus for preventing denial of service attacks Electricity 79 Expired
US6910134B1 Method and device for innoculating email infected with a virus Physics 76 Expired
US5630143A Microprocessor with externally controllable power management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US7406709B2 Apparatus and method for allowing peer-to-peer network traffic across enterprise firewalls Electricity 51 Expired
US5632037A Microprocessor having power management circuitry with coprocessor support Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US5428622A Testing architecture with independent scan paths Physics 46 Expired
US7272115B2 Method and apparatus for enforcing service level agreements Electricity 45 Expired
US6088807A Computer system with low power mode invoked by halt instruction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US7002974B1 Learning state machine for use in internet protocol networks Electricity 26 Expired
US5040138A Circuit for simultaneous arithmetic calculation and normalization estimation Physics 25 Expired
US6343363B1 Method of invoking a low power mode in a computer system using a halt instruction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US5420989A Coprocessor interface supporting I/O or memory mapped communications Physics 18 Expired
US7894432B2 Apparatus and method creating virtual routing domains in an internet protocol network Electricity 13 Active
US5020013A Bidirectional variable bit shifter Physics 13 Expired
US5144570A Normalization estimator Physics 12 Expired
US7206313B2 Apparatus and method for using information in one direction of a bi-directional flow in a network to alter characteristics of the return direction flow Electricity 11 Expired
US5375209A Microprocessor for selectively configuring pinout by activating tri-state device to disable internal clock from external pin Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US9136408B2 Perovskite and other solar cell materials Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US6910141B2 Pipelined data processor with signal-initiated power management control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US7120810B2 Instruction-initiated power management method for a pipelined data processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired

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