San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Gerard Horan

This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent. Top assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.. Active years: 2004.

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Inventor Profile: Gerard Horan. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/inventor/gerard-horan

Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile

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% Patents Active = 100.0

Average Co-Inventor Count = 3.0

ph-index = 1

Forward Citations = 11(Granted Patents)


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Years Active: 2004

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1 patent (USPTO):Explore Patents

Title: Gerard Horan: Inventor in Network Management

Introduction

Gerard Horan is an inventor associated with San Carlos, California, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. His patent work addresses transactional support for network management operations.

Latest Patents

Horan is credited with 1 patent: “Apparatus, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Transactional Support of Network Management Operations.” The invention describes an application transaction server that groups multiple user-specified operations into a single transaction and records essential transaction information in a database. If an operation fails, the recorded information can support restoring the targeted objects to their values from before the transaction was completed.

Career Highlights

Horan’s listed invention focuses on improving the reliability of network management by providing a way to track and recover changes made through grouped application operations. The supplied information associates him with Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Collaborations

Horan’s listed coworkers include Subodh Bapat and Tony Thang Vuong.

Conclusion

Gerard Horan’s patent reflects an approach to making network management operations more reliable through transaction tracking and recovery.

Profile summary based on public USPTO records.
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