Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Harvey Gene Kiel

69Patents
21h-index
83Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 9, 1987 → Jan 12, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5990888A Method and system for manipulating graphical objects Physics 151 Expired
US4905171A Workstation controller performance monitor Physics 98 Expired
US5532715A Visually aging scroll bar Physics 88 Expired
US5420975A Method and system for automatic alteration of display of menu options Physics 87 Expired
US6049334A Method and system for graphically indicating the activity of a plurality of users within a shared data collection Physics 72 Expired
US5465358A System for enhancing user efficiency in initiating sequence of data processing system user inputs using calculated probability of user executing selected sequences of user inputs Physics 71 Expired
US6336143B1 Method and apparatus for multimedia data interchange with pacing capability in a distributed data processing system Electricity 68 Expired
US5485570A Display station controller Physics 56 Expired
US5276898A System for selectively compressing data frames based upon a current processor work load identifying whether the processor is too busy to perform the compression Physics 55 Expired
US7530071B2 Facilitating access to input/output resources via an I/O partition shared by multiple consumer partitions Physics 49 Active
US5440697A Method and apparatus for simulating I/O devices Physics 42 Expired
US7493425B2 Method, system and program product for differentiating between virtual hosts on bus transactions and associating allowable memory access for an input/output adapter that supports virtualization Physics 33 Expired
US7398337B2 Association of host translations that are associated to an access control level on a PCI bridge that supports virtualization Physics 30 Expired
US7308551B2 System and method for managing metrics table per virtual port in a logically partitioned data processing system Physics 29 Expired
US7376770B2 System and method for virtual adapter resource allocation matrix that defines the amount of resources of a physical I/O adapter Physics 27 Active
US5461716A Method and apparatus for assisting in the presentation and removal of windows Physics 26 Expired
US7464191B2 System and method for host initialization for an adapter that supports virtualization Physics 25 Expired
US7546386B2 Method for virtual resource initialization on a physical adapter that supports virtual resources Physics 25 Active
US5201033A Method for controlling cursor movements on certain computer workstations Physics 22 Expired
US5255358A Action bar processing on non-programmable workstations Physics 22 Expired
US5295241A Method and apparatus for local function key control of scrolling on certain computer workstations Physics 21 Expired
US5437014A System for supporting mouse button events of dependent workstation terminals connected to main processor executing multiple application programs Physics 21 Expired
US8028105B2 System and method for virtual adapter resource allocation matrix that defines the amount of resources of a physical I/O adapter Physics 18 Active
US7870301B2 System and method for modification of virtual adapter resources in a logically partitioned data processing system Physics 17 Active
US5922056A Computer system with peripheral device characteristic sensing and automatic communications speed setting Physics 15 Expired

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