Inventor · Austin, TX, US

David Cureton Baker

35Patents
14h-index
40Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 18, 1979 → Sep 29, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4578674A Method and apparatus for wireless cursor position control Physics 230 Expired
US5291585A Computer system having system feature extension software containing a self-describing feature table for accessing I/O devices according to machine-independent format Physics 151 Expired
US4586035A Display terminal with a cursor responsive virtual distributed menu Physics 141 Expired
US7409623B2 System and method of reading non-volatile computer memory Physics 98 Expired
US4286321A Common bus communication system in which the width of the address field is greater than the number of lines on the bus Physics 75 Expired
US5586324A Computer system having system feature extension software containing a self-describing feature table for accessing I/O devices according to machine independent format Physics 44 Expired
US4760548A Method and apparatus for producing a curve image Physics 38 Expired
US5109510A System concurrently running application programs and selectively routing device input to resource controller created virtual terminals and real physical devices Physics 37 Expired
US5812204A System and method for generating NTSC and PAL formatted video in a computer system Electricity 35 Expired
US5337412A Method and apparatus for substituting real and virtual devices independent from an data processing system application program Physics 35 Expired
US5940610A Using prioritized interrupt callback routines to process different types of multimedia information Electricity 29 Expired
US5790110A System and method for generating video in a computer system Electricity 25 Expired
US5640332A Multimedia graphics system Electricity 21 Expired
US5715437A System for, and method of, processing in hardware commands received from software without polling of the hardware by the software Physics 14 Expired
US7428603B2 System and method for communicating with memory devices via plurality of state machines and a DMA controller Physics 9 Active
US5777601A System and method for generating video in a computer system Electricity 9 Expired
US4740927A Bit addressable multidimensional array Physics 6 Expired
US7071859B1 System and method for scheduling access to an analog-to-digital converter and a microprocessor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US7644251B2 Non-volatile solid-state memory controller Physics 3 Active
US7142141B1 System and method for scheduling access to an analog-to-digital converter and a microprocessor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US8639946B2 System and method of using a protected non-volatile memory Physics 2 Active
US11661754B2 Universal vibratory handle for cementitious surface floats Electricity 1 Active
US7397408B2 System and method for scheduling access to an analog-to-digital converter and a microprocessor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10205453B2 Self-timed processors implemented with multi-rail null convention logic and unate gates Electricity 1 Active
US7508326B2 Automatically disabling input/output signal processing based on the required multimedia format Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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