Inventor · Tomball, TX, US

Alan L. Goodrum

43Patents
18h-index
49Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 7, 1989 → Jul 21, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5627962A Circuit for reassigning the power-on processor in a multiprocessing system Physics 106 Expired
US5822512A Switching control in a fault tolerant system Physics 106 Expired
US7702931B2 Adjusting power budgets of multiple servers Physics 92 Active
US5922060A Expansion card insertion and removal Physics 84 Expired
US5819053A Computer system bus performance monitoring Physics 72 Expired
US7739548B2 Determining actual power consumption for system power performance states Physics 58 Active
US5555250A Data error detection and correction system Physics 47 Expired
US6032271A Method and apparatus for identifying faulty devices in a computer system Physics 45 Expired
US5822571A Synchronizing data between devices Physics 36 Expired
US6098137A Fault tolerant computer system Physics 34 Expired
US5815677A Buffer reservation method for a bus bridge system Physics 30 Expired
US5872941A Providing data from a bridge to a requesting device while the bridge is receiving the data Physics 28 Expired
US6108741A Ordering transactions Physics 26 Expired
US5943482A Expansion card insertion and removal Physics 24 Expired
US5829027A Removable processor board having first, second and third level cache system for use in a multiprocessor computer system Physics 22 Expired
US7895455B2 Dynamic converter control for efficient operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US6073196A Using communication cycles for connecting and disconnecting devices in a computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US5214767A Full address and odd boundary direct memory access controller which determines address size by counting the input address bytes Physics 18 Expired
US6260095A Buffer reservation method for a bus bridge system Physics 15 Expired
US5579512A Systempro emulation in a symmetric multiprocessing computer system Physics 13 Expired
US5911055A Using subordinate bus devices that are connected to a common bus Physics 13 Expired
US6101322A Removal and insertion of expansion cards in a computer system Physics 12 Expired
US6321286A Fault tolerant computer system Physics 11 Expired
US7757107B2 Maintaining a power budget Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US8726045B2 Automated power topology discovery by detecting communication over power line and associating PDU port identifier to computing device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.