Alan L. Goodrum
43Patents
18h-index
49Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 7, 1989 → Jul 21, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.