Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Ben Wei Chen

64Patents
15h-index
49Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 28, 1988 → Nov 23, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7021971B2 Dual-personality extended-USB plug and receptacle with PCI-Express or Serial-At-Attachment extensions Electricity 109 Expired
US7103684B2 Single-chip USB controller reading power-on boot code from integrated flash memory for user storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 105 Expired
US7130958B2 Serial interface to flash-memory chip using PCI-express-like packets and packed data for partial-page writes Physics 90 Expired
US6728763B1 Adaptive media streaming server for playing live and streaming media content on demand through web client's browser with no additional software or plug-ins Electricity 86 Expired
US7073010B2 USB smart switch with packet re-ordering for interleaving among multiple flash-memory endpoints aggregated as a single virtual USB endpoint Physics 82 Expired
US7082056B2 Flash memory device and architecture with multi level cells Physics 51 Expired
US6993618B2 Dual-mode flash storage exchanger that transfers flash-card data to a removable USB flash key-drive with or without a PC host Physics 49 Expired
US6041346A Method and system for providing remote storage for an internet appliance Electricity 35 Expired
US7103765B2 Method and system for providing a modulized server on board Physics 32 Expired
US7832645B2 Flash memory card expander Electricity 29 Active
US10237253B2 Private cloud routing server, private network service and smart device client architecture without utilizing a public cloud based routing server Electricity 26 Active
US5014128A Video interface circuit for displaying capturing and mixing a live video image with computer graphics on a video monitor Physics 25 Expired
US7601563B2 Small form factor molded memory card and a method thereof Electricity 25 Active
US7989268B2 Small form factor molded memory card and a method thereof Electricity 24 Active
US4870299A Dynamic switching circuit for multiple asynchronous clock sources Physics 15 Expired
US7318117B2 Managing flash memory including recycling obsolete sectors Physics 10 Expired
US8176230B2 Wireless flash memory card expansion system Physics 10 Active
US8607070B2 Secure storage system and method of use Electricity 9 Active
US8097957B2 Flash memory card Electricity 7 Active
US9439565B1 Wireless viewing of digital pathology specimens Physics 7 Active
US9935930B2 Private and secure communication architecture without utilizing a public cloud based routing server Electricity 6 Active
US7757037B2 Configurable flash memory controller and method of use Physics 6 Expired
USD802602S1 Data accessing device General 6 Active
US9781087B2 Private and secure communication architecture without utilizing a public cloud based routing server Electricity 6 Active
US8282012B2 Flash memory card expander Electricity 5 Active

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