William Bridge
61Patents
29h-index
73Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 25, 1996 → Dec 29, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5890167A | Pluggable tablespaces for database systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 178 | Expired |
| US6405284B1 | Distributing data across multiple data storage devices in a data storage system | Physics | 146 | Expired |
| US6073128A | Method and apparatus for identifying files used to restore a file | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 144 | Expired |
| US5991772A | Method and apparatus for restoring a portion of a database | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 107 | Expired |
| US6078930A | Multi-node fault-tolerant timestamp generation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 93 | Expired |
| US7152148B2 | Storage access keys | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 72 | Expired |
| US6125368A | Fault-tolerant timestamp generation for multi-node parallel databases | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 70 | Expired |
| US6351754B1 | Method and system for controlling recovery downtime | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US6253212A | Method and system for maintaining checkpoint values | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 55 | Expired |
| US6678704B1 | Method and system for controlling recovery downtime by maintaining a checkpoint value | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 55 | Expired |
| US6530035B1 | Method and system for managing storage systems containing redundancy data | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US6370619B1 | Managing partitioned cache | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US6003044A | Method and apparatus for efficiently backing up files using multiple computer systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
| US6952664B1 | System and method for predicting cache performance | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US6243702A | Method and apparatus for propagating commit times between a plurality of database servers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 42 | Expired |
| US6880102B1 | Method and system for managing storage systems containing multiple data storage devices | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US6804671B1 | Pluggable tablespaces for database systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 41 | Expired |
| US7571173B2 | Cross-platform transportable database | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Expired |
| US6385613B1 | Resource management using resource domains | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Expired |
| US7577690B2 | Managing checkpoint queues in a multiple node system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Active |
| US6549901B1 | Using transportable tablespaces for hosting data of multiple users | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Expired |
| US6272503A | Tablespace-relative database pointers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US7395369B2 | Distributing data across multiple storage devices | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7003694B1 | Reliable standby database failover | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
| US5873102A | Pluggable tablespaces on a transportable medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.