Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Charles Ray Johns

158Patents
21h-index
128Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 1, 1987 → Sep 30, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7792263B2 Method, system, and computer program product for displaying images of conference call participants Electricity 135 Active
US7209137B2 Efficient triangular shaped meshes Physics 133 Expired
US8265253B2 Displaying images of conference call participants Electricity 129 Active
US7721128B2 Implementation of thermal throttling logic Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Active
US8520740B2 Arithmetic decoding acceleration Electricity 50 Active
US4908789A Method and system for automatically assigning memory modules of different predetermined capacities to contiguous segments of a linear address range Physics 50 Expired
US7321958B2 System and method for sharing memory by heterogeneous processors Physics 47 Expired
US7143246B2 Method for supporting improved burst transfers on a coherent bus Physics 42 Expired
US6674841B1 Method and apparatus in a data processing system for an asynchronous context switching mechanism Physics 38 Expired
US6809734B2 Resource dedication system and method for a computer architecture for broadband networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US7596430B2 Selection of processor cores for optimal thermal performance Physics 37 Active
US6421053B1 Block rendering method for a graphics subsystem Physics 36 Expired
US7793125B2 Method and apparatus for power throttling a processor in an information handling system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Active
US7376532B2 Maximal temperature logging Physics 31 Active
US7102417B2 Integrated circuit die including a temperature detection circuit, and system and methods for calibrating the temperature detection circuit Physics 29 Expired
US8037893B2 Optimizing thermal performance using thermal flow analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Active
US6760819B2 Symmetric multiprocessor coherence mechanism Physics 29 Expired
US6820143B2 On-chip data transfer in multi-processor system Physics 25 Expired
US6981072B2 Memory management in multiprocessor system Physics 23 Expired
US7590774B2 Method and system for efficient context swapping Physics 21 Active
US5696947A Two dimensional frame buffer memory interface system and method of operation thereof Physics 21 Expired
US7546393B2 System for asynchronous DMA command completion notification wherein the DMA command comprising a tag belongs to a plurality of tag groups Physics 19 Active
US7484173B2 Alternative key pad layout for enhanced security Physics 19 Active
US7349762B2 Systems and methods for thermal management Physics 18 Expired
US7552346B2 Dynamically adapting software for reducing a thermal state of a processor core based on its thermal index Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active

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