Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Brian Kelleher

26Patents
14h-index
26Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 24, 1987 → Oct 20, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6938176B1 Method and apparatus for power management of graphics processors and subsystems that allow the subsystems to respond to accesses when subsystems are idle Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 154 Expired
US5794016A Parallel-processor graphics architecture Physics 148 Expired
US5287438A System and method for drawing antialiased polygons Physics 98 Expired
US6088043A Scalable graphics processor architecture Physics 78 Expired
US7721118B1 Optimizing power and performance for multi-processor graphics processing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 69 Expired
US7598958B1 Multi-chip graphics processing unit apparatus, system, and method Physics 67 Expired
US7882369B1 Processor performance adjustment system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US7372465B1 Scalable graphics processing for remote display Physics 52 Expired
US4953101A Software configurable memory architecture for data processing system having graphics capability Physics 41 Expired
US7633505B1 Apparatus, system, and method for joint processing in graphics processing units Physics 30 Expired
US7005871B1 Apparatus, system, and method for managing aging of an integrated circuit Physics 28 Expired
US4935880A Method of tiling a figure in graphics rendering system Physics 18 Expired
US5008838A Method for simultaneous initialization of a double buffer and a frame buffer Physics 17 Expired
US7710741B1 Reconfigurable graphics processing system Electricity 15 Active
US5206628A Method and apparatus for drawing lines in a graphics system Physics 12 Expired
US8249819B1 Virtual binning Physics 8 Active
US5218678A System and method for atomic access to an input/output device with direct memory access Physics 6 Expired
US8130227B2 Distributed antialiasing in a multiprocessor graphics system Physics 6 Active
US8427496B1 Method and system for implementing compression across a graphics bus interconnect Electricity 5 Active
US9176909B2 Aggregating unoccupied PCI-e links to provide greater bandwidth Physics 4 Active
US9529712B2 Techniques for balancing accesses to memory having different memory types Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US11182309B2 Techniques for an efficient fabric attached memory Physics 3 Active
US8701057B2 Design, layout, and manufacturing techniques for multivariant integrated circuits Electricity 1 Active
US9477597B2 Techniques for different memory depths on different partitions Physics 0 Active
US11822491B2 Techniques for an efficient fabric attached memory Physics 0 Active

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