Inventor · Kitchener, ON, CA

Thomas K. Wong

61Patents
28h-index
41Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: May 21, 1992 → Nov 4, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5884024A Secure DHCP server Electricity 318 Expired
US5835727A Method and apparatus for controlling access to services within a computer network Electricity 264 Expired
US5848233A Method and apparatus for dynamic packet filter assignment Electricity 246 Expired
US5774715A File system level compression using holes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 194 Expired
US5922049A Method for using DHCP and marking to override learned IP addesseses in a network Electricity 143 Expired
US6115802A Efficient hash table for use in multi-threaded environments Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 137 Expired
US6073178A Method and apparatus for assignment of IP addresses Electricity 128 Expired
US7072917B2 Extended storage capacity for a network file server Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 111 Expired
US5701981A Retractable power cord Electricity 106 Expired
US8180747B2 Load sharing cluster file systems Physics 93 Active
US5701432A Multi-threaded processing system having a cache that is commonly accessible to each thread Physics 84 Expired
US6014660A Method and apparatus for client-sensitive name resolution using DNS Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US5890169A Disk fragmentation reduction using file allocation tables Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 78 Expired
US6070242A Method to activate unregistered systems in a distributed multiserver network environment Electricity 77 Expired
US7123613B1 Apparatus and method for providing a transparent proxy server Electricity 69 Expired
US8305447B1 Security threat detection system Physics 69 Active
US7346664B2 Transparent file migration using namespace replication Electricity 65 Expired
US5819298A File allocation tables with holes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US5909695A Maximal concurrent lookup cache for computing systems having a multi-threaded environment Physics 53 Expired
US7587422B2 Transparent file replication using namespace replication Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
USD491438S1 Hammer drill General 46 Expired
US8548953B2 File deduplication using storage tiers Physics 44 Active
US8190741B2 Customizing a namespace in a decentralized storage environment Physics 44 Active
USD506972S1 Charger General 42 Expired
US6754800B2 Methods and apparatus for implementing host-based object storage schemes Physics 38 Expired

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