Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Bruce Wilford

25Patents
11h-index
30Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 18, 1994 → Dec 17, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6687247B1 Architecture for high speed class of service enabled linecard Electricity 313 Expired
US5509006A Apparatus and method for switching packets using tree memory Electricity 144 Expired
US6314110A Method and apparatus for distributed bandwidth allocation for a bi-directional ring media with spatial and local reuse Electricity 86 Expired
US6212183A Multiple parallel packet routing lookup Electricity 68 Expired
US6567404B1 Multiprotocol packet recognition and switching Electricity 67 Expired
US6111877A Load sharing across flows Electricity 45 Expired
US6157641A Multiprotocol packet recognition and switching Electricity 41 Expired
US6757791B1 Method and apparatus for reordering packet data units in storage queues for reading and writing memory Electricity 30 Expired
US7558270B1 Architecture for high speed class of service enabled linecard Electricity 24 Expired
US6512766B2 Enhanced internet packet routing lookup Electricity 16 Expired
US6603765B1 Load sharing across flows Electricity 14 Expired
US10209904B2 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Physics 9 Active
US11010054B1 Exabyte-scale data processing system Physics 8 Active
US6968392B1 Method and apparatus providing improved statistics collection for high bandwidth interfaces supporting multiple connections Electricity 6 Expired
US6990099B1 Multiple parallel packet routing lookup Electricity 5 Expired
US10503416B1 Flash memory complex with a replication interface to replicate data to another flash memory complex of a data processing system Physics 5 Active
US10515014B1 Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) mechanism for accessing memory with cache coherence Physics 2 Active
US11340794B2 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Physics 1 Active
US9519615B2 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Physics 1 Active
US7031323B2 Method and apparatus for distributed bandwidth allocation for a bi-directional ring media with spatial and local reuse Electricity 1 Expired
US10713334B1 Data processing system with a scalable architecture over ethernet Physics 1 Active
US8902902B2 Recursive lookup with a hardware trie structure that has no sequential logic elements Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US10410693B2 Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources Physics 0 Active
US9899996B1 Recursive lookup with a hardware trie structure that has no sequential logic elements Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US10496284B1 Software-implemented flash translation layer policies in a data processing system Physics 0 Active

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