Inventor · Nashua, NH, US

Stephen A. Hurst

17Patents
11h-index
17Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 31, 1998 → May 7, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6505253B1 Multiple ACK windows providing congestion control in reliable multicast protocol Electricity 156 Expired
US6507562B1 DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION FOR RECEIVERS USING DISTANCE BETWEEN A REPAIR HEAD AND A MEMBER STATION IN A REPAIR GROUP FOR RECEIVERS HAVING A CLOSELY KNIT TOPOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT TO LOCATE REPAIR HEADS NEAR THE MEMBER STATIONS WHICH THEY SERVE IN TREE BASED REPAIR IN RELIABLE MULTICAST PROTOCOL Electricity 103 Expired
US6526022B1 Detecting congestion by comparing successive loss of packets in windows to provide congestion control in reliable multicast protocol Electricity 98 Expired
US6275859A Tree-based reliable multicast system where sessions are established by repair nodes that authenticate receiver nodes presenting participation certificates granted by a central authority Electricity 57 Expired
US6131123A Efficient message distribution to subsets of large computer networks using multicast for near nodes and unicast for far nodes Electricity 45 Expired
US6104695A Repair TTL computation and correction mechanism to perform localized repairs in a multicast data distribution setup/framework Electricity 40 Expired
US6192404A Determination of distance between nodes in a computer network Electricity 37 Expired
US6185698A Method and apparatus using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repair Electricity 29 Expired
US6151633A Method and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networks Electricity 22 Expired
US6658004B1 Use of beacon message in a network for classifying and discarding messages Electricity 17 Expired
US6427166B1 Method and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networks Electricity 11 Expired
US6757843B1 Method and apparatus for using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repair Electricity 5 Expired
US9495085B2 Device connectivity Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US11010151B2 Software patch ordering Physics 0 Active
US11157443B2 Management of history metadata of a file Physics 0 Active
US9955521B2 Device connectivity Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US11334466B2 Remedying bad service fixes having subsequent dependent fixes Physics 0 Active

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