Inventor · Grafton, GB

Stephen J. Hobson

51Patents
8h-index
41Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 4, 1995 → Mar 25, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6993537B2 Data recovery system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6665814B2 Method and apparatus for providing serialization support for a computer system Physics 36 Expired
US8595301B2 Message delivery in messaging networks Electricity 24 Active
US9965951B1 Cognitive traffic signal control Physics 22 Active
US9021038B2 Message delivery in messaging networks Electricity 22 Active
US7543181B2 Recovery from failures within data processing systems Physics 20 Expired
US5745676A Authority reduction and restoration method providing system integrity for subspace groups and single address spaces during program linkage Physics 19 Expired
US6848037B2 Data processing arrangement and method Physics 15 Expired
US7454478B1 Business message tracking system using message queues and tracking queue for tracking transaction messages communicated between computers Physics 7 Active
US7484119B2 Method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for adjusting the frequency at which data is backed up Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8799347B2 System and method for resolving a unit of work Physics 3 Active
US8141103B2 Solution for modifying a queue manager to support smart aliasing which permits extensible software to execute against queued data without application modifications Physics 3 Active
US9647972B2 Message delivery in messaging networks Electricity 3 Active
US7453812B1 Method for detecting and correcting publish-subscribe looping in a messaging network Electricity 2 Active
US8112760B2 System for workload balancing by resetting an average queue depth upon the start of the server instance Physics 2 Active
US6948093B2 Data processing arrangement and method Physics 2 Expired
US10171623B1 Identifying application preemptive requests Electricity 2 Active
US9442804B2 Message reconciliation during disaster recovery Physics 2 Active
US8006248B2 Method, apparatus and computer program for facilitating communication between a client application and a server application Physics 2 Active
US8930521B2 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for enabling monitoring of a resource Electricity 1 Active
US7409688B2 System and method for workload balancing by resetting an average queue depth upon the start of the server instance Physics 1 Expired
US8479044B2 Method for determining a state associated with a transaction Physics 1 Active
US9769110B2 Message delivery in messaging networks Electricity 1 Active
US8769536B2 Processing a batched unit of work Physics 1 Active
US7558210B1 Publish-subscribe looping detection and correction Electricity 1 Active

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