Brian D. Howard
27Patents
15h-index
20Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 10, 1989 → Apr 10, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6711691B1 | Power management for computer systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 188 | Expired |
| US5323291A | Portable computer and docking station having an electromechanical docking/undocking mechanism and a plurality of cooperatively interacting failsafe mechanisms | Physics | 167 | Expired |
| US7451332B2 | Methods and apparatuses for controlling the temperature of a data processing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 122 | Expired |
| US5257350A | Computer with self configuring video circuitry | Physics | 77 | Expired |
| US6460143B1 | Apparatus and method for awakening bus circuitry from a low power state | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 61 | Expired |
| US6820209B1 | Power managed graphics controller | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 61 | Expired |
| US5933154A | Multi-panel video display control addressing of interleaved frame buffers via CPU address conversion | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US7698579B2 | Multiplexed graphics architecture for graphics power management | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US6708278B2 | Apparatus and method for awakening bus circuitry from a low power state | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US6654898B1 | Stable clock generation internal to a functional integrated circuit chip | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| USRE36381E | Portable computer and docking station having an electromechanical docking/undocking mechanism and a plurality of cooperatively interacting failsafe mechanisms | General | 29 | Expired |
| US5651126A | Method and apparatus for reducing transitions on computer signal lines | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5151997A | Computer with adaptable video circuitry | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US5854641A | Method and apparatus for display image rotation | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5625386A | Method and apparatus for interleaving display buffers | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US8237386B2 | Methods and apparatuses for operating a data processing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Active |
| US8448000B2 | Methods and apparatuses for operating a data processing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Active |
| US5929868A | Method and apparatus for computer display memory management | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| USRE38471E1 | Method and apparatus for display image rotation | General | 8 | Expired |
| US9043627B2 | Methods and apparatuses for controlling the temperature of a data processing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US7634587B2 | I/O descriptor cache for bus mastering I/O controllers | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US9317090B2 | Methods and apparatuses for operating a data processing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Active |
| US7337258B1 | Dynamically allocating devices to buses | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
| US7577930B2 | Method and apparatus for analyzing integrated circuit operations | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US8681159B2 | Method and apparatus for switching between graphics sources | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.