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Bruce Fairman
Also filed as: FAIRMAN BRUCE · FAIRMAN BRUCE A · FAIRMAN BRUCE ALAN
62 granted patents·4 pending applications·1,842 citations·filing 1977–2009
99Inventor score
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66 records- 0194US6233611B1Media manager for controlling autonomous media devices within a network environment and managing the flow and format of data between the devicesSONY CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 15, 2001·235 cites·40 claims
- 0293US6496860B2Media manager for controlling autonomous media devices within a network environment and managing the flow and format of data between the devicesSONY CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 17, 2002·70 cites·43 claims
- 0393US5075805ADisk drive controller systemTANDON CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Dec 24, 1991·89 cites·4 claims
- 0489US6453376B1Method for implementing scheduling mechanisms with selectable resource modesSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 17, 2002·60 cites·34 claims
- 0586US7069558B1System and method for interactively utilizing a user interface to manage device resourcesSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 27, 2006·44 cites·5 claims
- 0686US6389547B1Method and apparatus to synchronize a bus bridge to a master clockSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted May 14, 2002·45 cites·20 claims
- 0785US6539450B1Method and system for adjusting isochronous bandwidths on a busSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 25, 2003·46 cites·29 claims
- 0884US6647446B1Method and system for using a new bus identifier resulting from a bus topology changeSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 11, 2003·17 cites·33 claims
- 0983US6631415B1Method and system for providing a communication connection using stream identifiersSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 7, 2003·37 cites·20 claims
- 1083US6421069B1Method and apparatus for including self-describing information within devicesSONY CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 16, 2002·127 cites·64 claims
- 1182US6631435B1Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 7, 2003·32 cites·45 claims
- 1282US5991520AApplication programming interface for managing and automating data transfer operations between applications over a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 23, 1999·111 cites·64 claims
- 1380US6901474B2Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structureSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 31, 2005·24 cites·82 claims
- 1479US8379654B2Method of and apparatus for providing isochronous services over switched ethernet including a home network wall plate having a combined IEEE 1394 and ethernet modified hubSONY CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Feb 19, 2013·7 cites·44 claims
- 1579US6493753B2Media manager for controlling autonomous media devices within a network environment and managing the flow and format of data between the devicesSONY CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 10, 2002·21 cites·50 claims
- 1678US6904475B1Programmable first-in first-out (FIFO) memory buffer for concurrent data stream handlingSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 7, 2005·25 cites·46 claims
- 1778US6810452B1Method and system for quarantine during bus topology configurationSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 26, 2004·28 cites·38 claims
- 1878US6728821B1Method and system for adjusting isochronous bandwidths on a busSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 27, 2004·26 cites·29 claims
- 1978US6587910B2Isochronous data pipe for managing and manipulating a high-speed stream of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 1, 2003·16 cites·16 claims
- 2077US6374316B1Method and system for circumscribing a topology to form ring structuresSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 16, 2002·25 cites·44 claims
- 2176US6233637B1Isochronous data pipe for managing and manipulating a high-speed stream of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 1996·Granted May 15, 2001·61 cites·24 claims
- 2275US4849875AComputer address modification system with optional DMA pagingTANDON CORP·Filed 1987·Granted Jul 18, 1989·54 cites·20 claims
- 2374US7577782B2Application programming interface for data transfer and bus management over a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 18, 2009·19 cites·22 claims
- 2474US6757760B1Method of and apparatus for dispatching a processing element to a program location based on channel number of received dataSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 29, 2004·17 cites·41 claims
- 2574US6578109B1System and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cacheSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 10, 2003·16 cites·30 claims
- 2673US7318090B1Method for utilizing concurrent context switching to support isochronous processesSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 8, 2008·18 cites·52 claims
- 2771US6751697B1Method and system for a multi-phase net refresh on a bus bridge interconnectSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 15, 2004·18 cites·43 claims
- 2871US6502158B1Method and system for address spacesSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 31, 2002·14 cites·21 claims
- 2970US6973653B1Method for utilizing resource characterizations to optimize performance in an electronic deviceSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 6, 2005·15 cites·53 claims
- 3070US6728834B2System and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cacheSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 27, 2004·12 cites·21 claims
- 3170US6266727B1Isochronous data pipe for managing and manipulating a high-speed stream of isochronous data flowing between an application and a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 24, 2001·37 cites·64 claims
- 3270US6169745B1System and method for multi-level context switching in an electronic networkSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 2, 2001·62 cites·53 claims
- 3369US6859846B2Method of distributed recording whereby the need to transition to a second recording device from a first recording device is broadcast by the first recording deviceSONY CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 22, 2005·13 cites·45 claims
- 3469US6847650B1System and method for utilizing a memory device to support isochronous processesSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 25, 2005·13 cites·49 claims
- 3568US6667988B1System and method for multi-level context switching in an electronic networkSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 23, 2003·12 cites·49 claims
- 3667US6584539B1Method and system for message broadcast flow control on a bus bridge interconnectSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 24, 2003·11 cites·33 claims
- 3767US6421745B1Asynchronous connections with scattering page tables for transmitting data from a producer device to a consumer device over an IEEE 1394 serial data busSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 16, 2002·11 cites·52 claims
- 3867US5016121ADisk drive controller systemTANDON CORP·Filed 1988·Granted May 14, 1991·39 cites·9 claims
- 3966US7463647B2Method 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 hubSONY CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 9, 2008·9 cites·45 claims
- 4066US6993022B1Method of and apparatus for directly mapping communications through a router between nodes on different buses within a network of busesSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 31, 2006·10 cites·29 claims
- 4166US6243783B1Application programming interface for managing and automating data transfer operations between applications over a bus structureSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 5, 2001·46 cites·12 claims
- 4265US6557067B1System and method to effectively compensate for delays in an electronic interconnectSONY CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 29, 2003·9 cites·43 claims
- 4364US8094678B2Method 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 HUBSTONE GLEN DAVID·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 10, 2012·3 cites·45 claims
- 4460US6895379B2Method of and apparatus for configuring and controlling home entertainment systems through natural language and spoken commands using a natural language serverSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 17, 2005·7 cites·38 claims
- 4559US6934781B2System and method for effectively performing isochronous data transfersSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 23, 2005·5 cites·40 claims
- 4659US5101339AComputer address modification system using writable mapping and page storesTANDON CORP·Filed 1989·Granted Mar 31, 1992·26 cites·18 claims
- 4758US4979054ADisk drive for storing data in run length limited format and method of providing such formatTANDON CORP·Filed 1988·Granted Dec 18, 1990·25 cites·5 claims
- 4857US7154910B2Method for any speed dubbing using isochronous packets on isochronous channels or on asynchronous streams over an IEEE 1394-2000 serial bus networkSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 26, 2006·4 cites·51 claims
- 4957US2003155417A1Content vending machine using IEEE 1394SONY CORP·Filed 2002·Application pending·0 cites
- 5055US6952826B1Method for implementing a multi-level system model for deterministically handling selected dataSONY ELECTRONICS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 4, 2005·4 cites·16 claims
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