Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Brian E. Smith

199Patents
18h-index
128Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 3, 1996 → Jun 29, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8032899B2 Providing policy-based operating system services in a hypervisor on a computing system Physics 342 Active
US7634388B2 Providing policy-based operating system services in an operating system on a computing system Physics 226 Active
US7895260B2 Processing data access requests among a plurality of compute nodes Physics 216 Active
US7673011B2 Configuring compute nodes of a parallel computer in an operational group into a plurality of independent non-overlapping collective networks Physics 90 Active
US9081501B2 Multi-petascale highly efficient parallel supercomputer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 85 Active
US9310981B2 Seamless editing and saving of online content items using applications Electricity 81 Active
US8041969B2 Reducing power consumption while performing collective operations on a plurality of compute nodes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Active
US8903838B2 System and method for preventing duplicate file uploads in a synchronized content management system Physics 39 Active
US8650582B2 Processing data communications messages with input/output control blocks Physics 37 Active
US8250164B2 Query performance data on parallel computer system having compute nodes Physics 35 Active
US5732634A Thin film bridge initiators and method of manufacture Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 32 Expired
US8544065B2 Dataspace protection utilizing virtual private networks on a multi-node computer system Physics 27 Active
US7796527B2 Computer hardware fault administration Physics 26 Active
US5871048A Determining an optimum gas injection rate for a gas-lift well Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US6136114A Gas generant compositions methods of production of the same and devices made therefrom Human Necessities 24 Expired
US7697443B2 Locating hardware faults in a parallel computer Electricity 22 Active
US8161480B2 Performing an allreduce operation using shared memory Physics 22 Active
US7988133B2 Combined guardrail and cable safety systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US5992796A Secondary wing system for use on an aircraft Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US7827024B2 Low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer Physics 16 Active
US8365186B2 Runtime optimization of an application executing on a parallel computer Physics 16 Active
US8565089B2 Performing a scatterv operation on a hierarchical tree network optimized for collective operations Physics 15 Active
US7647590B2 Parallel computing system using coordinator and master nodes for load balancing and distributing work Physics 14 Active
US6308734A Dry running coolant union Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US8775698B2 Performing an all-to-all data exchange on a plurality of data buffers by performing swap operations Physics 12 Active

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