Inventor · Round Rock, TX, US

Herman Dietrich Dierks, Jr.

21Patents
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38Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 17, 1998 → Nov 13, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6631422B1 Network adapter utilizing a hashing function for distributing packets to multiple processors for parallel processing Electricity 82 Expired
US6338078B1 System and method for sequencing packets for multiprocessor parallelization in a computer network system Electricity 74 Expired
US7174386B2 System and method for improved performance using tunable TCP/IP acknowledgement Electricity 15 Expired
US7715428B2 Multicore communication processing Electricity 9 Active
US7818433B2 System and method for minimizing retry delays in high traffic computer networks Electricity 4 Active
US7065581B2 Method and apparatus for an improved bulk read socket call Electricity 4 Expired
US6430659B1 Method and means for increasing performance of multiprocessor computer systems by reducing accesses to global memory locations through the use of quanta Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US7831980B2 Scheduling threads in a multi-processor computer Physics 3 Active
US7454456B2 Apparatus and method of improving network performance using virtual interfaces Electricity 2 Expired
US7937508B2 Method and apparatus for transferring data from a memory subsystem to a network adapter by extending data lengths to improve the memory subsystem and PCI bus efficiency Physics 2 Active
US7469296B2 Method and apparatus for an improved bulk read socket call Electricity 1 Active
US7512072B2 TCP/IP method FPR determining the expected size of conjestion windows Electricity 1 Active
US7817560B2 Acknowledging packet receipt based on expected size of sender's congestion window Electricity 1 Active
US7356664B2 Method and apparatus for transferring data from a memory subsystem to a network adapter for improving the memory subsystem and PCI bus efficiency Physics 1 Expired
US9276879B2 Memory transfer optimization of network adapter data placement when performing header-data split operations Electricity 1 Active
US8806153B2 Partial line cache write injector for direct memory access write Physics 0 Active
US7376763B2 Method for transferring data from a memory subsystem to a network adapter by extending data lengths to improve the memory subsystem and PCI bus efficiency Physics 0 Expired
US9270620B2 Memory transfer optimization of network adapter data placement when performing header-data split operations Electricity 0 Active
US8595472B2 Ganged hardware counters for coordinated rollover and reset operations Physics 0 Active
US7526706B2 Method and apparatus for preventing network outages Electricity 0 Active
US7970925B2 Method and apparatus for an improved bulk read socket call Electricity 0 Active

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