Inventor · Hillsboro, OR, US

Barnes Cooper

104Patents
19h-index
134Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 28, 1996 → Nov 30, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6823516B1 System and method for dynamically adjusting to CPU performance changes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 299 Expired
US6829713B2 CPU power management based on utilization with lowest performance mode at the mid-utilization range Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 287 Expired
US6535798B1 Thermal management in a system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 147 Expired
US6457135B1 System and method for managing a plurality of processor performance states Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 125 Expired
US5760636A Adjusting clock frequency and voltage supplied to a processor in a computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 85 Expired
US6442700B1 Thermal control within systems having multiple CPU performance states Physics 85 Expired
US6317827A Method and apparatus for fault tolerant flash upgrading Physics 55 Expired
US7596709B2 CPU power management based on utilization with lowest performance mode at the mid-utilization range Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Active
US6738068B2 Entering and exiting power managed states without disrupting accelerated graphics port transactions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Expired
US7430673B2 Power management system for computing platform Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Active
US7971081B2 System and method for fast platform hibernate and resume Physics 30 Active
US7596464B2 Determining the thermal influence of components within a system and usage of a matrix for power and thermal management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US7219241B2 Method for managing virtual and actual performance states of logical processors in a multithreaded processor using system management mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US7152169B2 Method for providing power management on multi-threaded processor by using SMM mode to place a physical processor into lower power state Physics 25 Expired
US7984314B2 Power management of low power link states Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Active
US7089430B2 Managing multiple processor performance states Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US6823240B2 Operating system coordinated thermal management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US6701272B2 Method and apparatus for optimizing thermal solutions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6182238A Fault tolerant task dispatching Physics 19 Expired
US7281074B2 Method and apparatus to quiesce USB activities using interrupt descriptor caching and asynchronous notifications Physics 18 Expired
US6711526B2 Operating system-independent method and system of determining CPU utilization Physics 16 Expired
US6446153B1 Shared embedded microcontroller interface Physics 15 Expired
US7082542B2 Power management using processor throttling emulation Physics 15 Expired
US11379016B2 Methods and apparatus to operate closed-lid portable computers Physics 15 Active
US7930564B2 System and method for controlling processor low power states Physics 13 Active

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