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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
WB

William B. Boyle

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 66 patents #11 of 3,180Top 1%
KMKeen Personal Media: 18 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
KTKeen Personal Technologies: 13 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
STSandisk Technologies: 3 patents #751 of 2,224Top 35%
IBM: 1 patents #44,794 of 70,183Top 65%
Lake Forest, CA: #11 of 1,030 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,793 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,226 of 4,157,543Top 1%
89 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 76–89 of 89 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7133600 Video recording system utilizing storage redundancy to transfer non-time-critical, error-intolerant data segments while transferring time-critical, error-tolerant streaming data segments at a required data transfer rate 2006-11-07
7111116 Reducing micro-controller access time to data stored in a remote memory in a disk drive control system Robert H. Krebs, Jr. 2006-09-19
7106947 Communicating a channel-change event from a set top box to a digital video recorder William Pat Price 2006-09-12
7027716 Communicating between a digital video recorder (DVR) and a set top box (STB) to coordinate the display of a graphical user interface William Pat Price 2006-04-11
6940873 Data stream control system for associating counter values with stored selected data packets from an incoming data transport stream to preserve interpacket time interval information Ronald G. Parkinen 2005-09-06
6853731 Digital video recorder employing a unique ID to interlock with encrypted video programs stored on a storage device Alan P. Rice 2005-02-08
6851055 Digital video recorder for encrypting/decrypting video programs in segments to facilitate trick play features Alan P. Rice 2005-02-01
6851063 Digital video recorder employing a file system encrypted using a pseudo-random sequence generated from a unique ID Alan P. Rice 2005-02-01
6832041 VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM UTILIZING HOST-PROCESSOR-RESIDENT ERROR RECOVERY TO TRANSFER NON-TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-INTOLERANT DATA SEGMENTS WHILE TRANSFERRING TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-TOLERANT STREAMING DATA SEGMENTS AT A REQUIRED DATA TRANSFER RATE 2004-12-14
6751402 SET-TOP BOX CONNECTABLE TO A DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER VIA AN AUXILIARY INTERFACE AND SELECTS BETWEEN A RECORDED VIDEO SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM THE DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER AND A REAL-TIME VIDEO SIGNAL TO PROVIDE VIDEO DATA STREAM TO A DISPLAY DEVICE Timothy Elliott 2004-06-15
6708251 Disk drive having separate interfaces for host commands and audiovisual data Ronald G. Parkinen 2004-03-16
6453115 Digital video recording system which generates an index data structure for displaying a video stream in trickplay mode 2002-09-17
6442328 Digital video recorder connectable to an auxiliary interface of a set-top box that provides video data stream to a display device based on selection between recorded video signal received from the dig Timothy Elliott 2002-08-27
4630344 Apparatus and method for assembling parts Rodolfo Candelaria, Jr., Edward P. Hecker 1986-12-23