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Stephen A. Hurst
Also filed as: HURST STEPHEN · HURST STEPHEN A
17 granted patents·1,092 citations·filing 1998–2019
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17 records- 0193US6505253B1Multiple ACK windows providing congestion control in reliable multicast protocolSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 7, 2003·288 cites·11 claims
- 0289US6526022B1Detecting congestion by comparing successive loss of packets in windows to provide congestion control in reliable multicast protocolSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 25, 2003·197 cites·3 claims
- 0387US6507562B1Dynamic 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 protocolSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 14, 2003·164 cites·9 claims
- 0479US6275859B1Tree-based reliable multicast system where sessions are established by repair nodes that authenticate receiver nodes presenting participation certificates granted by a central authoritySUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 14, 2001·105 cites·8 claims
- 0575US6427166B1Method and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networksSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 30, 2002·19 cites·16 claims
- 0671US6192404B1Determination of distance between nodes in a computer networkSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 20, 2001·81 cites·34 claims
- 0771US6131123AEfficient message distribution to subsets of large computer networks using multicast for near nodes and unicast for far nodesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 10, 2000·74 cites·39 claims
- 0868US6757843B1Method and apparatus for using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repairSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 29, 2004·10 cites·20 claims
- 0965US6104695ARepair TTL computation and correction mechanism to perform localized repairs in a multicast data distribution setup/frameworkSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 15, 2000·54 cites·16 claims
- 1061US6185698B1Method and apparatus using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repairSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 6, 2001·38 cites·12 claims
- 1157US6151633AMethod and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networksSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 21, 2000·31 cites·42 claims
- 1254US6658004B1Use of beacon message in a network for classifying and discarding messagesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 2, 2003·31 cites·25 claims
- 1352US11157443B2Management of history metadata of a fileIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Oct 26, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 1444US9955521B2Device connectivityIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 24, 2018·0 cites·12 claims
- 1542US9495085B2Device connectivityIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 15, 2016·0 cites·12 claims
- 1639US11334466B2Remedying bad service fixes having subsequent dependent fixesIBM·Filed 2018·Granted May 17, 2022·0 cites·11 claims
- 1737US11010151B2Software patch orderingIBM·Filed 2018·Granted May 18, 2021·0 cites·14 claims
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