Inventor · Seattle, WA, US

Burton Smith

33Patents
6h-index
54Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 8, 2007 → May 17, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8452182B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 21 Active
US8161247B2 Wait loss synchronization Physics 15 Active
US8001538B2 Software accessible cache metadata Physics 11 Active
US8225297B2 Cache metadata identifiers for isolation and sharing Physics 9 Active
US10453592B1 Reducing losses in superconducting cables Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US8812796B2 Private memory regions and coherence optimizations Physics 8 Active
US8195784B2 Linear programming formulation of resources in a data center Physics 6 Active
US8483569B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 6 Active
US8285708B2 Query submission pipeline using LINQ Physics 6 Active
US8813052B2 Cache metadata for implementing bounded transactional memory Physics 6 Active
US9280397B2 Using buffered stores or monitoring to filter redundant transactional accesses and mechanisms for mapping data to buffered metadata Physics 5 Active
US8356166B2 Minimizing code duplication in an unbounded transactional memory system by using mode agnostic transactional read and write barriers Physics 5 Active
US8655187B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 5 Active
US8443370B2 Method of assigning resources to fulfill a service request by a programming model abstraction layer at a data center based at least in part on a reference of the requested resource class indicative of an abstract amount of resources Physics 4 Active
US9032244B2 Memory segment remapping to address fragmentation Physics 4 Active
US8301028B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 4 Active
US8898652B2 Cache metadata for accelerating software transactional memory Physics 4 Active
US8401393B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 2 Active
US8312463B2 Resource management in computing scenarios Physics 2 Active
US9997495B2 Non-contacting inductive interconnects Electricity 1 Active
US8412889B2 Low-level conditional synchronization support Physics 1 Active
US8527690B2 Optimization of non-volatile solid-state memory by moving data based on data generation and memory wear Physics 1 Active
US9412074B2 Optimized trotterization via multi-resolution analysis Physics 1 Active
US9716548B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 1 Active
US8483568B2 Data center with free-space optical communications Electricity 0 Active

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