David V. James
84Patents
28h-index
45Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 28, 1985 → Jun 4, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6442644B1 | Memory system having synchronous-link DRAM (SLDRAM) devices and controller | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 382 | Expired |
| US5860080A | Multicasting system for selecting a group of memory devices for operation | Physics | 203 | Expired |
| US6763426B1 | Cascadable content addressable memory (CAM) device and architecture | Physics | 146 | Expired |
| US5574922A | Processor with sequences of processor instructions for locked memory updates | Physics | 122 | Expired |
| US6108739A | Method and system for avoiding starvation and deadlocks in a split-response interconnect of a computer system | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US6226723A | Bifurcated data and command/address communication bus architecture for random access memories employing synchronous communication protocols | Physics | 99 | Expired |
| US6133938A | Descriptor mechanism for assuring indivisible execution of AV/C operations | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US4777589A | Direct input/output in a virtual memory system | Physics | 76 | Expired |
| US5052029A | Self-correcting synchronization signal method and apparatus | Electricity | 72 | Expired |
| US5717952A | DMA controller with mechanism for conditional action under control of status register, prespecified parameters, and condition field of channel command | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US6445711B1 | Method of and apparatus for implementing and sending an asynchronous control mechanism packet used to control bridge devices within a network of IEEE STD 1394 serial buses | Electricity | 65 | Expired |
| US6519657B1 | Method and device for identifying an active 1394A node attached to a 1394B network | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US7185141B1 | Apparatus and method for associating information values with portions of a content addressable memory (CAM) device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 60 | Expired |
| US5961623A | Method and system for avoiding starvation and deadlocks in a split-response interconnect of a computer system | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US6906936B1 | Data preclassifier method and apparatus for content addressable memory (CAM) device | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US5495592A | System for finding and setting address portion of variable-length character string by XOR-ing portion in number of bytes within single instruction | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US6006289A | System for transferring data specified in a transaction request as a plurality of move transactions responsive to receipt of a target availability signal | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6523108B1 | Method of and apparatus for extracting a string of bits from a binary bit string and depositing a string of bits onto a binary bit string | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US5323426A | Elasticity buffer for data/clock synchronization | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US5815695A | Method and apparatus for using condition codes to nullify instructions based on results of previously-executed instructions on a computer processor | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US4774653A | Hybrid hardware/software method and apparatus for virtual memory address translation using primary and secondary translation buffers | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US6690309B1 | High speed transmission system with clock inclusive balanced coding | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4779195A | Interrupt system using masking register in processor for selectively establishing device eligibility to interrupt a particular processor | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6539450B1 | Method and system for adjusting isochronous bandwidths on a bus | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US6892273B1 | Method and apparatus for storing mask values in a content addressable memory (CAM) device | Physics | 30 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.