David M. Chastain
16Patents
14h-index
31Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 5, 1977 → Sep 27, 1996
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5859975A | Parallel processing computer system having shared coherent memory and interconnections utilizing separate undirectional request and response lines for direct communication or using crossbar switching device | Physics | 88 | Expired |
| US5159686A | Multi-processor computer system having process-independent communication register addressing | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US5050070A | Multi-processor computer system having self-allocating processors | Physics | 80 | Expired |
| US4597061A | Memory system using pipeline circuitry for improved speed | Physics | 69 | Expired |
| US4926317A | Hierarchical memory system with logical cache, physical cache, and address translation unit for generating a sequence of physical addresses | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US5577204A | Parallel processing computer system interconnections utilizing unidirectional communication links with separate request and response lines for direct communication or using a crossbar switching device | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US4620275A | Computer system | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US4873629A | Instruction processing unit for computer | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US5560027A | Scalable parallel processing systems wherein each hypernode has plural processing modules interconnected by crossbar and each processing module has SCI circuitry for forming multi-dimensional network with other hypernodes | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US4528666A | Memory system with built in parity | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US4665506A | Memory system with write protection | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US5845071A | Error containment cluster of nodes | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US4812972A | Microcode computer having dispatch and main control stores for storing the first and the remaining microinstructions of machine instructions | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US4197589A | Operation sequencing mechanism | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US5930822A | Method and system for maintaining strong ordering in a coherent memory system | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US4701917A | Diagnostic circuit | Physics | 6 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.