Inventor · Cambridge, GB

Derek Roberts

66Patents
8h-index
19Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 15, 2003 → Jul 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7562366B2 Transmit completion event batching Electricity 93 Active
US7496699B2 DMA descriptor queue read and cache write pointer arrangement Electricity 66 Active
US7634584B2 Packet validation in virtual network interface architecture Electricity 26 Active
US7970949B2 Network interface and protocol Electricity 21 Active
US7844742B2 Network interface and protocol Electricity 18 Active
US9426124B2 Locked down network interface Electricity 10 Active
US7769923B2 Interrupt management for multiple event queues Physics 10 Active
US8645558B2 Reception according to a data transfer protocol of data directed to any of a plurality of destination entities for data extraction Electricity 9 Active
US8635353B2 Reception according to a data transfer protocol of data directed to any of a plurality of destination entities Electricity 8 Active
US7596644B2 Transmit rate pacing system and method Physics 8 Active
US8131895B2 Interrupt management for multiple event queues Physics 7 Active
US7610413B2 Queue depth management for communication between host and peripheral device Physics 7 Expired
US8073994B2 Data transfer, synchronising applications, and low latency networks Electricity 7 Active
US9043380B2 Reception according to a data transfer protocol of data directed to any of a plurality of destination entities Electricity 6 Active
US10686872B2 Network interface device Electricity 6 Active
US9594842B2 Hashing algorithm for network receive filtering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US7984180B2 Hashing algorithm for network receive filtering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8346971B2 Data transfer, synchronising applications, and low latency networks Electricity 6 Active
US11082364B2 Network interface device Electricity 4 Active
US10445156B2 Reception according to a data transfer protocol of data directed to any of a plurality of destination entities Electricity 4 Active
US7831749B2 Including descriptor queue empty events in completion events Physics 4 Active
US10686731B2 Network interface device Electricity 4 Active
US8423675B2 Data transfer, synchronising applications, and low latency networks Electricity 3 Active
US9043671B2 Data protocol Electricity 3 Active
US9769274B2 Data transfer, synchronising applications, and low latency networks Electricity 3 Active

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