Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Robert Patrick Fitzgerald

43Patents
13h-index
37Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 1993 → Apr 18, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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