Inventor · Portland, OR, US

David S. Dunning

72Patents
15h-index
62Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 22, 1995 → Apr 9, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6333929A Packet format for a distributed system Electricity 118 Expired
US6343067B1 Method and apparatus for failure and recovery in a computer network Electricity 98 Expired
US5898826A Method and apparatus for deadlock-free routing around an unusable routing component in an N-dimensional network Electricity 93 Expired
US6170025A Distributed computer system supporting remote interrupts and lock mechanism Electricity 81 Expired
US6181704A Method and apparatus for input/output link retry, failure and recovery in a computer network Electricity 71 Expired
US8046488B2 Dynamically modulating link width Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Active
US6683850B1 Method and apparatus for controlling the flow of data between servers Electricity 58 Expired
US7313712B2 Link power saving state Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US6606360B1 Method and apparatus for receiving data Electricity 46 Expired
US6147366A On chip CMOS optical element Electricity 38 Expired
US6760307B2 Method and apparatus for controlling the flow of data between servers using optimistic transmitter Electricity 29 Expired
US6647423B2 Direct message transfer between distributed processes Physics 26 Expired
US6094683A Link bundling in a network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US7324458B2 Physical layer loopback Electricity 23 Active
US7203853B2 Apparatus and method for low latency power management on a serial data link Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US6765975B2 Method and apparatus for a tracking data receiver compensating for deterministic jitter Electricity 14 Expired
US7161937B1 Method and apparatus for routing encoded signals through a network Electricity 14 Expired
US7957428B2 Methods and apparatuses to effect a variable-width link Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Active
US7054374B1 Differential simultaneous bi-directional receiver Electricity 13 Expired
US7203872B2 Cache based physical layer self test Physics 13 Expired
US6646991B1 Multi-link extensions and bundle skew management Electricity 12 Expired
US6446235B1 Cumulative error detecting code Electricity 11 Expired
US7610500B2 Link power saving state Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US10621043B2 Systems, methods, and apparatuses for stacked memory Electricity 11 Active
US6781434B2 Low charge-dump transistor switch Electricity 11 Expired

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