Charles P. Thacker
32Patents
19h-index
36Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 31, 1975 → Jan 23, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4063220A | Multipoint data communication system with collision detection | Electricity | 324 | Expired |
| US5088091A | High-speed mesh connected local area network | Electricity | 205 | Expired |
| US7082495B2 | Method and apparatus to reduce power consumption and improve read/write performance of hard disk drives using non-volatile memory | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 156 | Expired |
| US6788815B2 | System and method for accepting disparate types of user input | Physics | 116 | Expired |
| US5267235A | Method and apparatus for resource arbitration | Electricity | 81 | Expired |
| US5179558A | Routing apparatus and method for high-speed mesh connected local area network | Physics | 72 | Expired |
| US5313501A | Method and apparatus for deskewing digital data | Electricity | 70 | Expired |
| US6957233B1 | Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering annotations for non-modifiable electronic content | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US5193197A | Apparatus and method for distributed dynamic priority arbitration for access to a shared resource | Physics | 67 | Expired |
| US5136700A | Apparatus and method for reducing interference in two-level cache memories | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US5276851A | Automatic writeback and storage limit in a high-performance frame buffer and cache memory system | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US4148098A | Data transfer system with disk command verification apparatus | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US4103331A | Data processing display system | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US5301283A | Dynamic arbitration for system bus control in multiprocessor data processing system | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US7028258B1 | Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit in a document | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7319454B2 | Two-button mouse input using a stylus | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7120872B2 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
| US6903730B2 | In-air gestures for electromagnetic coordinate digitizers | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US4276647A | High speed Hamming code circuit and method for the correction of error bursts | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US7266769B2 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US4103330A | Task handling in a data processing apparatus | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7265303B2 | Electromagnetic digitizer sensor array | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7418137B2 | System and method for accepting disparate types of user input | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US5835134A | Calibration and merging unit for video adapters | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7322008B2 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.