Inventor · Shingle Springs, CA, US

James M. Dodd

40Patents
18h-index
24Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 15, 1995 → Sep 15, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6742098B1 Dual-port buffer-to-memory interface Physics 347 Expired
US6795899B2 Memory system with burst length shorter than prefetch length Physics 201 Expired
US6493250B2 Multi-tier point-to-point buffered memory interface Physics 158 Expired
US6618791B1 System and method for controlling power states of a memory device via detection of a chip select signal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 155 Expired
US7024518B2 Dual-port buffer-to-memory interface Physics 129 Expired
US6639820B1 Memory buffer arrangement Physics 98 Expired
US6981089B2 Memory bus termination with memory unit having termination control Physics 95 Expired
US6862653B1 System and method for controlling data flow direction in a memory system Physics 77 Expired
US6449213B1 Memory interface having source-synchronous command/address signaling Physics 70 Expired
US6530006B1 System and method for providing reliable transmission in a buffered memory system Physics 65 Expired
US6507530B1 Weighted throttling mechanism with rank based throttling for a memory system Physics 44 Expired
US6553449B1 System and method for providing concurrent row and column commands Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6952745B1 Device and method for maximizing performance on a memory interface with a variable number of channels Physics 31 Expired
US6772352B1 Method and apparatus for reducing the rate of commands being issued if the rate exceeds a threshold which is based upon a temperature curve Physics 30 Expired
US6505282B1 Method and apparatus for determining memory types of a multi-type memory subsystem where memory of the different types are accessed using column control signals with different timing characteristics Physics 24 Expired
US5603010A Performing speculative system memory reads prior to decoding device code Physics 22 Expired
US6781911B2 Early power-down digital memory device and method Physics 22 Expired
US6725349B2 Method and apparatus for controlling of a memory subsystem installed with standard page mode memory and an extended data out memory Physics 18 Expired
US6212589A System resource arbitration mechanism for a host bridge Physics 18 Expired
US5640519A Method and apparatus to improve latency experienced by an agent under a round robin arbitration scheme Physics 17 Expired
US7120765B2 Memory transaction ordering Physics 17 Expired
US5894567A Mechanism for enabling multi-bit counter values to reliably cross between clocking domains Physics 16 Expired
US6766385B2 Device and method for maximizing performance on a memory interface with a variable number of channels Physics 15 Expired
US6801459B2 Obtaining data mask mapping information Physics 10 Expired
US6148380A Method and apparatus for controlling data transfer between a synchronous DRAM-type memory and a system bus Physics 9 Expired

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