Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Bruce A. Smith

28Patents
11h-index
63Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 21, 1981 → Aug 7, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5765008A Personal computer with riser card PCI and Micro Channel interface Physics 85 Expired
US6925529B2 Data storage on a multi-tiered disk system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US4773036A Diskette drive and media type determination Physics 25 Expired
US8352953B2 Dynamically provisioning virtual machines Electricity 22 Active
US4458333A Dot matrix character printing using constrained memory Physics 21 Expired
US4928193A Diskette drive type determination Physics 16 Expired
US6092139A Passive backplane capable of being configured to a variable data path width corresponding to a data size of the pluggable CPU board Electricity 14 Expired
US8311032B2 Dynamically provisioning virtual machines Electricity 13 Active
US6952672B2 Audio source position detection and audio adjustment Physics 12 Expired
US5524252A Personal computer system combined with an adapter for networks having varying characteristics, and adapter for coupling a personal computer to such networks Physics 12 Expired
US6848034B2 Dense server environment that shares an IDE drive Physics 11 Expired
US5655106A Personal computer with riser connector for expansion bus and alternate master Physics 10 Expired
US6792515B2 System for addressing processors connected to a peripheral bus Physics 10 Expired
US8276139B2 Provisioning virtual machine placement Physics 8 Active
US5293493A Preemption control for central processor with cache Physics 8 Expired
US8224957B2 Migrating virtual machines among networked servers upon detection of degrading network link operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US9342373B2 Virtual machine management among networked servers Electricity 5 Active
US8495208B2 Migrating virtual machines among networked servers upon detection of degrading network link operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8963465B2 Multi-pressure-quantity fan control system and computer system having the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
USD377009S Computer cabinet with extending speakers General 3 Expired
US9317097B2 Efficiency adjustments in power supply system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8341091B2 Computer system for managing orders for and deliveries of goods Physics 1 Active
US10130007B2 Fan control system for a computer system based on a time variable rate of current Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9513684B2 Efficiency adjustments in power supply system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US10897832B2 Fan control based on a time-variable rate of current Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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