David P. Sonnier
79Patents
20h-index
114Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 6, 1995 → Mar 29, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5751955A | Method of synchronizing a pair of central processor units for duplex, lock-step operation by copying data into a corresponding locations of another memory | Electricity | 159 | Expired |
| US8214868B2 | Flexible traffic management and shaping processing for multimedia distribution | Electricity | 156 | Active |
| US6233702A | Self-checked, lock step processor pairs | Electricity | 151 | Expired |
| US5751932A | Fail-fast, fail-functional, fault-tolerant multiprocessor system | Electricity | 136 | Expired |
| US5574849A | Synchronized data transmission between elements of a processing system | Electricity | 121 | Expired |
| US6151689A | Detecting and isolating errors occurring in data communication in a multiple processor system | Physics | 110 | Expired |
| US5914953A | Network message routing using routing table information and supplemental enable information for deadlock prevention | Electricity | 96 | Expired |
| US6157967A | Method of data communication flow control in a data processing system using busy/ready commands | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US5675807A | Interrupt message delivery identified by storage location of received interrupt data | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US5964835A | Storage access validation to data messages using partial storage address data indexed entries containing permissible address range validation for message source | Electricity | 78 | Expired |
| US5790776A | Apparatus for detecting divergence between a pair of duplexed, synchronized processor elements | Physics | 74 | Expired |
| US7149211B2 | Virtual reassembly system and method of operation thereof | Electricity | 69 | Expired |
| US5710549A | Routing arbitration for shared resources | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US6145061A | Method of management of a circular queue for asynchronous access | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US5675579A | Method for verifying responses to messages using a barrier message | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US5983269A | Method and apparatus for configuring routing paths of a network communicatively interconnecting a number of processing elements | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US8255644B2 | Network communications processor architecture with memory load balancing | Electricity | 39 | Active |
| US7159219B2 | Method and apparatus for providing multiple data class differentiation with priorities using a single scheduling structure | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US6754795B2 | Methods and apparatus for forming linked list queue using chunk-based structure | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US7075936B2 | Voice packet processor and method of operation thereof | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US7802245B2 | Methods and apparatus for performing in-service upgrade of software in network processor | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US5694121A | Latency reduction and routing arbitration for network message routers | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US7116680B1 | Processor architecture and a method of processing | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US7245624B2 | Processor with table-based scheduling using software-controlled interval computation | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US7930691B2 | Methods and apparatus for updating data structures during in-service upgrade of software in network processor | Physics | 11 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.