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Bruce Fairman — 61 Patents

Sony: 110 patents #94 of 25,231Top 1%
TGTandon Group: 6 patents #3 of 32Top 10%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
Woodside, CA: #23 of 553 inventorsTop 5%
California: #5,709 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
Bruce Fairman has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in February 2013. Bruce Fairman ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list Bruce Fairman in Woodside, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8379654 Method of and apparatus for providing isochronous services over switched ethernet including a home network wall plate having a combined IEEE 1394 and ethernet modified hub Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers, Mark Eyer 2013-02-19 $113,000
8094678 Method of and apparatus for providing reserved bandwidth to ethernet devices over switched ethernet including a home network wall plate having a combined IEEE 1394 and ethernet modified HUB Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers, Mark Eyer 2012-01-10 $123,000
7577782 Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structure Kevin Lym, Hisato Shima, Scott Smyers 2009-08-18 $978,000
7463647 Method of and apparatus for providing reserved bandwidth to ethernet devices over switched ethernet including a home network wall plate having a combined IEEE 1394 and ethernet modified hub Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers, Mark Eyer 2008-12-09 $597,000
7318090 Method for utilizing concurrent context switching to support isochronous processes Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers 2008-01-08 $2,176,000
7287113 Method of and apparatus for controlling bidirectional streams of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structure Scott Smyers, Hisato Shima 2007-10-23 $992,000
7254702 Method of distributed recording whereby the need to transition to a second recording device from a first recording device is broadcast by the first recording device Thomas Ulrich Swidler, Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers 2007-08-07 $1,798,000
7154910 Method for any speed dubbing using isochronous packets on isochronous channels or on asynchronous streams over an IEEE 1394-2000 serial bus network Richard A. Bardini, Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers 2006-12-26 $724,000
7103700 Method of and apparatus for controlling bidirectional streams of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structure Scott Smyers, Hisato Shima 2006-09-05 $723,000
7069558 System and method for interactively utilizing a user interface to manage device resources Glen D. Stone, Harold Aaron Ludtke 2006-06-27 $699,000
6993022 Method of and apparatus for directly mapping communications through a router between nodes on different buses within a network of buses David V. James, Hisato Shima 2006-01-31 $626,000
6973653 Method for utilizing resource characterizations to optimize performance in an electronic device Scott Smyers, Harold Aaron Ludtke, Glen D. Stone 2005-12-06 $495,000
6952826 Method for implementing a multi-level system model for deterministically handling selected data Scott Smyers, Glen D. Stone, Harold Aaron Ludtke 2005-10-04 $1,108,000
6934781 System and method for effectively performing isochronous data transfers Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers 2005-08-23 $418,000
6904475 Programmable first-in first-out (FIFO) memory buffer for concurrent data stream handling 2005-06-07 $450,000
6901474 Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structure Kevin Lym, Hisato Shima, Scott Smyers 2005-05-31 $677,000
6895379 Method of and apparatus for configuring and controlling home entertainment systems through natural language and spoken commands using a natural language server Scott Smyers, Glen D. Stone 2005-05-17 $586,000
6859846 Method of distributed recording whereby the need to transition to a second recording device from a first recording device is broadcast by the first recording device Thomas Ulrich Swidler, Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers 2005-02-22 $602,000
6847650 System and method for utilizing a memory device to support isochronous processes Glen D. Stone, David V. James 2005-01-25 $692,000
6810452 Method and system for quarantine during bus topology configuration David V. James, Richard K. Scheel 2004-10-26 $716,000
6757760 Method of and apparatus for dispatching a processing element to a program location based on channel number of received data Jung-Jen Liu 2004-06-29 $971,000
6751697 Method and system for a multi-phase net refresh on a bus bridge interconnect Hisato Shima, David V. James, Scott Smyers, Glen D. Stone, Kazonubu Toguchi +1 more 2004-06-15 $798,000
6728821 Method and system for adjusting isochronous bandwidths on a bus David V. James, David Hunter, Hisato Shima 2004-04-27 $848,000
6728834 System and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cache Glen D. Stone, Scott Smyers 2004-04-27 $848,000
6667988 System and method for multi-level context switching in an electronic network Jung-Jen Liu, Scott Smyers, Steve Pham, Jose-Luis Diaz, Richard A. Bardini 2003-12-23 $1,267,000