Inventor · Gig Harbor, WA, US

Gurbir Singh

46Patents
20h-index
59Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: May 7, 1987 → Nov 30, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6118306A Changing clock frequency Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 103 Expired
US5581782A Computer system with distributed bus arbitration scheme for symmetric and priority agents Electricity 85 Expired
US5796977A Highly pipelined bus architecture Physics 69 Expired
US6601121B2 Quad pumped bus architecture and protocol Physics 63 Expired
US6006299A Apparatus and method for caching lock conditions in a multi-processor system Physics 60 Expired
US6202125A Processor-cache protocol using simple commands to implement a range of cache configurations Physics 60 Expired
US5715428A Apparatus for maintaining multilevel cache hierarchy coherency in a multiprocessor computer system Physics 59 Expired
US5615343A Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions Physics 51 Expired
US5568620A Method and apparatus for performing bus transactions in a computer system Physics 51 Expired
US5345576A Microprocessor simultaneously issues an access to an external cache over an external cache bus and to an internal cache, cancels the external cache access on an internal cache hit, and reissues the access over a main memory bus on an external cache miss Physics 48 Expired
US5754833A Method and apparatus for providing synchronous data transmission between digital devices operating at frequencies having a P/Q integer ratio Electricity 45 Expired
US5809524A Method and apparatus for cache memory replacement line identification Physics 40 Expired
US6967321B2 Optical navigation sensor with integrated lens Physics 39 Expired
US5903908A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency using a single controller for multiple cache memories Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US4803622A Programmable I/O sequencer for use in an I/O processor Physics 32 Expired
USRE38388E1 Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions General 29 Expired
US7112916B2 Light emitting diode based light source emitting collimated light Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US5832534A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency using a single controller for multiple cache memories Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US6806583B2 Light source Electricity 27 Expired
US5701503A Method and apparatus for transferring information between a processor and a memory system Physics 21 Expired
US5937171A Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions Physics 20 Expired
US5678020A Memory subsystem wherein a single processor chip controls multiple cache memory chips Physics 20 Expired
US5903738A Method and apparatus for performing bus transactions in a computer system Physics 18 Expired
US5911053A Method and apparatus for changing data transfer widths in a computer system Physics 18 Expired
US6311281A Apparatus and method for changing processor clock ratio settings Electricity 18 Expired

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