Robert Patrick Fitzgerald
43Patents
13h-index
37Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 30, 1993 → Apr 18, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5473362A | Video on demand system comprising stripped data across plural storable devices with time multiplex scheduling | Electricity | 219 | Expired |
| US6003061A | Method and system for scheduling the use of a computer system resource using a resource planner and a resource provider | Physics | 196 | Expired |
| US5812844A | Method and system for scheduling the execution of threads using optional time-specific scheduling constraints | Physics | 136 | Expired |
| US5583868A | Method and system for combining data from multiple servers into a single continuous data stream using a switch | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US6584489B1 | Method and system for scheduling the use of a computer system resource using a resource planner and a resource provider | Physics | 88 | Expired |
| US6381740B1 | Method and system for incrementally improving a program layout | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US6865610B2 | Wire protocol for a media server system | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US5867657A | Distributed scheduling in a multiple data server system | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US5903563A | Method and system for combining data from multiple servers into a single continuous data stream using a switch | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US7669044B2 | Accelerated system boot | Physics | 29 | Active |
| US6339794B2 | Wire protocol for a media server system | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US6466987B2 | Wire protocol for a media server system | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5699503A | Method and system for providing fault tolerance to a continuous media server system | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6269477A | Method and system for improving the layout of a program image using clustering | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US5903917A | Method and system for alignment of blocks in a program image | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6658648B1 | Method and system for controlling the improving of a program layout | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US9223675B2 | Characterizing device performance based on user-perceivable latency | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US9519551B2 | Recovery processing for database in persistent system | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7181736B2 | Method and system for controlling the improving of a program layout | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US9417974B2 | Transaction processing for database in persistent system | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9477557B2 | Transaction processing using torn write detection | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US10664362B2 | Recovery processing for database in persistent system | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US9747174B2 | Tail of logs in persistent main memory | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7958176B2 | Identifying filter coefficients | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US9952931B2 | Versioned records management using restart era | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.