Drew J. Dutton
39Patents
18h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 15, 1987 → Mar 14, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5696927A | Memory paging system and method including compressed page mapping hierarchy | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US4878166A | Direct memory access apparatus and methods for transferring data between buses having different performance characteristics | Physics | 117 | Expired |
| US5944816A | Microprocessor configured to execute multiple threads including interrupt service routines | Physics | 89 | Expired |
| US5615207A | Side bus to dynamically off load main bus | Electricity | 79 | Expired |
| US5142672A | Data transfer controller incorporating direct memory access channels and address mapped input/output windows | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US5625829A | Dockable computer system capable of symmetric multi-processing operations | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US5901332A | System for dynamically reconfiguring subbusses of data bus according to system needs based on monitoring each of the information channels that make up data bus | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US5822778A | Microprocessor and method of using a segment override prefix instruction field to expand the register file | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US6219754A | Processor with decompressed video bus | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US5317715A | Reduced instruction set computer system including apparatus and method for coupling a high performance RISC interface to a peripheral bus having different performance characteristics | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US5748921A | Computer system including a plurality of multimedia devices each having a high-speed memory data channel for accessing system memory | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US5768574A | Microprocessor using an instruction field to expand the condition flags and a computer system employing the microprocessor | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US5754801A | Computer system having a multimedia bus and comprising a centralized I/O processor which performs intelligent data transfers | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6357024B1 | Electronic system and method for implementing functional redundancy checking by comparing signatures having relatively small numbers of signals | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5740387A | Computer system having an expansion bus which includes normal and real time modes | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US5999476A | Bios memory and multimedia data storage combination | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5734843A | Reverse data channel as a bandwidth modulator | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5761452A | Bus arbiter method and system | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5819080A | Microprocessor using an instruction field to specify condition flags for use with branch instructions and a computer system employing the microprocessor | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5805840A | Bus arbiter employing a transaction grading mechanism to dynamically vary arbitration priority | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US5802330A | Computer system including a plurality of real time peripheral devices having arbitration control feedback mechanisms | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7917741B2 | Enhancing security of a system via access by an embedded controller to a secure storage device | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US5680578A | Microprocessor using an instruction field to specify expanded functionality and a computer system employing same | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US5754190A | System for reproducing images utilizing image libraries | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US5923887A | Interrupt request that defines resource usage | Physics | 8 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.