Inventor · Tempe, AZ, US

David R. Evoy

65Patents
24h-index
54Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 11, 1993 → Jun 5, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5404460A Method for configuring multiple identical serial I/O devices to unique addresses through a serial bus Physics 252 Expired
US5937193A Circuit arrangement for translating platform-independent instructions for execution on a hardware platform and method thereof Physics 102 Expired
US6105142A Intelligent power management interface for computer system hardware Physics 100 Expired
US5958020A Real time event determination in a universal serial bus system Physics 94 Expired
US5475854A Serial bus I/O system and method for serializing interrupt requests and DMA requests in a computer system Physics 90 Expired
US5787294A System for reducing the power consumption of a computer system and method therefor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 88 Expired
US6466190B1 Flexible color modulation tables of ratios for generating color modulation patterns Physics 76 Expired
US5953741A Stack cache for stack-based processor and method thereof Physics 67 Expired
US6062480A Hot docking system and methods for detecting and managing hot docking of bus cards Physics 58 Expired
US5713030A Thermal management device and method for a computer processor Physics 55 Expired
US5561761A Central processing unit data entering and interrogating device and method therefor Physics 45 Expired
US5933609A Method and system for hot docking a portable computer to a docking station via the primary PCI bus Physics 45 Expired
US5835791A Versatile connection of a first keyboard/mouse interface and a second keyboard/mouse interface to a host computer Physics 43 Expired
US5961640A Virtual contiguous FIFO having the provision of packet-driven automatic endian conversion Physics 38 Expired
US5951689A Microprocessor power control system Physics 33 Expired
US5793990A Multiplex address/data bus with multiplex system controller and method therefor Physics 33 Expired
US5845151A System using descriptor and having hardware state machine coupled to DMA for implementing peripheral device bus mastering via USB controller or IrDA controller Physics 32 Expired
US6859883B2 Parallel data communication consuming low power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US5758133A System and method for altering bus speed based on bus utilization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US6330658A Master/slave multi-processor arrangement and method thereof Physics 27 Expired
US5634069A Encoding assertion and de-assertion of interrupt requests and DMA requests in a serial bus I/O system Physics 27 Expired
US6330623A System and method for maximizing DMA transfers of arbitrarily aligned data Physics 26 Expired
US6085307A Multiple native instruction set master/slave processor arrangement and method thereof Physics 26 Expired
US6044412A Integrated circuit pin sharing method and apparatus for diverse memory devices by multiplexing subsets of pins in accordance with operation modes Physics 25 Expired
US6766460B1 System and method for power management in a Java accelerator environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired

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