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Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

20Patents
0Active
20Granted
32Portfolio score

Filing activity: Aug 19, 1991 → Nov 3, 1997

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5442758A Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead mutual exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring Physics 235 Expired
US5684671A Packaging architecture for a data server Electricity 207 Expired
US5608893A Method for maintaining data coherency using thread activity summaries in a multicomputer system Physics 125 Expired
US5655122A Optimizing compiler with static prediction of branch probability, branch frequency and function frequency Physics 117 Expired
US5833337A Self-retaining rack slide Electricity 116 Expired
US5727209A Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead mutual-exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring Physics 106 Expired
US5185861A Cache affinity scheduler Physics 99 Expired
US5877938A Packaging architecture for a data server Electricity 80 Expired
US6049853A Data replication across nodes of a multiprocessor computer system Physics 70 Expired
US5938765A System and method for initializing a multinode multiprocessor computer system Physics 63 Expired
US6055617A Virtual address window for accessing physical memory in a computer system Physics 56 Expired
US5367647A Apparatus and method for achieving improved SCSI bus control capacity Physics 50 Expired
US5900020A Method and apparatus for maintaining an order of write operations by processors in a multiprocessor computer to maintain memory consistency Physics 49 Expired
US5852826A Parallel merge sort method and apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US5802578A Multinode computer system with cache for combined tags Physics 41 Expired
US5261053A Cache affinity scheduler Physics 34 Expired
US6041376A Distributed shared memory system having a first node that prevents other nodes from accessing requested data until a processor on the first node controls the requested data Physics 20 Expired
US5916314A Method and apparatus for cache tag mirroring Physics 16 Expired
USD377785S computing device General 11 Expired
US5945257A Method of forming resistors Electricity 8 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.