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Stephen A. Hurst — 17 Patents

Oracle: 12 patents #927 of 14,854Top 7%
IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Stephen A. Hurst has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Oracle. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in May 2022. Stephen A. Hurst ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Stephen A. Hurst in Winchester, NH, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2003.peak 42000: 3 patents20002001: 3 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 4 patents20032004: 1 patents20042016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11334466 Remedying bad service fixes having subsequent dependent fixes Payal Mehta, Stephen Evans, Ian M. Hodges, Michael Vrakopoulos, Andrew Wright +1 more 2022-05-17 $6,899,000
11157443 Management of history metadata of a file Daniel Jeffrey, Ian M. Hodges 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
11010151 Software patch ordering Ian M. Hodges, Michael Vrakopoulos, Payal Mehta, Stephen Evans, Andrew Wright 2021-05-18 $4,116,000
9955521 Device connectivity Russell P. Finn, Peter Griffin, Sarah E. Jackson 2018-04-24 $2,845,000
9495085 Device connectivity Russell P. Finn, Peter Griffin, Sarah E. Jackson 2016-11-15 $2,170,000
6757843 Method and apparatus for using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repair Joseph S. Wesley, Miriam C. Kadansky, Stephen R. Hanna, Philip M. Rosenzweig, Dah Ming Chiu +1 more 2004-06-29 $17,928,000
6658004 Use of beacon message in a network for classifying and discarding messages Miriam C. Kadansky, Dah Ming Chiu, Stephen R. Hanna, Radia J. Perlman, Joseph S. Wesley 2003-12-02 $11,224,000
6526022 Detecting congestion by comparing successive loss of packets in windows to provide congestion control in reliable multicast protocol Dah Ming Chiu, Miriam C. Kadansky, Stephen R. Hanna, Joseph S. Wesley, Philip M. Rosenzweig +1 more 2003-02-25 $13,845,000
6507562 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 Miriam C. Kadansky, Dah Ming Chiu, Stephen R. Hanna, Joseph S. Wesley, Philip M. Rosenzweig +1 more 2003-01-14 $25,158,000
6505253 Multiple ACK windows providing congestion control in reliable multicast protocol Dah Ming Chiu, Miriam C. Kadansky, Stephen R. Hanna, Joseph S. Wesley, Philip M. Rosenzweig +1 more 2003-01-07 $22,417,000
6427166 Method and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networks Joseph S. Wesley, Stephen R. Hanna, Miriam C. Kadansky, Philip M. Rosenzweig 2002-07-30 $30,436,000
6275859 Tree-based reliable multicast system where sessions are established by repair nodes that authenticate receiver nodes presenting participation certificates granted by a central authority Joseph S. Wesley, Dah Ming Chiu, Miriam C. Kadansky, Radia J. Perlman, Joseph E. Provino +1 more 2001-08-14 $103,588,000
6192404 Determination of distance between nodes in a computer network Dah Ming Chiu, Stephen R. Hanna, Radia J. Pearlman 2001-02-20 $162,269,000
6185698 Method and apparatus using ranking to select repair nodes in formation of a dynamic tree for multicast repair Joseph S. Wesley, Miriam C. Kadansky, Stephen R. Hanna, Philip M. Rosenzweig, Dah Ming Chiu +1 more 2001-02-06 $83,975,000
6151633 Method and apparatus for routing and congestion control in multicast networks Joseph S. Wesley, Stephen R. Hanna, Miriam C. Kadansky, Philip M. Rosenzweig 2000-11-21 $515,725,000
6131123 Efficient message distribution to subsets of large computer networks using multicast for near nodes and unicast for far nodes Radia J. Perlman 2000-10-10 $229,859,000
6104695 Repair TTL computation and correction mechanism to perform localized repairs in a multicast data distribution setup/framework Joseph S. Wesley, Radia J. Perlman, Stephen R. Hanna, Miriam C. Kadansky, Philip M. Rosenzweig 2000-08-15 $299,310,000