Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Jeffrey Dwork

41Patents
17h-index
21Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: May 9, 1995 → Nov 24, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5938771A Apparatus and method in a network interface for enabling power up of a host computer using magic packet and on-now power up management schemes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 68 Expired
US6067408A Full duplex buffer management and apparatus Physics 57 Expired
US6963946B1 Descriptor management systems and methods for transferring data between a host and a peripheral Physics 47 Expired
US7689738B1 Peripheral devices and methods for transferring incoming data status entries from a peripheral to a host Physics 43 Active
US6463542B1 Power management indication mechanism for supporting power saving mode in computer system Physics 42 Expired
US7502474B2 Network interface with security association data prefetch for high speed offloaded security processing Electricity 29 Active
US6704364B1 Method and apparatus for generating a plurality of CRC digits for data packets having different prescribed network protocols using one CRC generator Electricity 28 Expired
US7533154B1 Descriptor management systems and methods for transferring data of multiple priorities between a host and a network Electricity 27 Expired
US8351445B1 Network interface systems and methods for offloading segmentation and/or checksumming with security processing Electricity 26 Active
US6094443A Apparatus and method for detecting a prescribed pattern in a data stream by selectively skipping groups of nonrelevant data bytes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US7826614B1 Methods and apparatus for passing initialization vector information from software to hardware to perform IPsec encryption operation Electricity 24 Active
US5933413A Adaptive priority determination for servicing transmit and receive in network controllers Electricity 24 Expired
US6581113B1 Apparatus and method for transferring frame data between a host system memory and a network interface buffer memory employing transmit descriptors without transmit status information Physics 24 Expired
US6389557B1 Freezing mechanism for debugging Physics 22 Expired
US5878028A Data structure to support multiple transmit packets for high performance Electricity 21 Expired
US7818563B1 Method to maximize hardware utilization in flow-thru IPsec processing Electricity 19 Active
US7624263B1 Security association table lookup architecture and method of operation Electricity 19 Active
US5938728A Apparatus and method for selectively controlling clocking and resetting of a network interface Physics 17 Expired
US6578080B1 Mechanism for run time programming of hardware resources with least interference with continued operation Electricity 15 Expired
US7065582B1 Automatic generation of flow control frames Electricity 14 Expired
US7685434B2 Two parallel engines for high speed transmit IPsec processing Electricity 13 Active
US6070248A Generation of a stable reference clock frequency from a base clock frequency that may vary depending on source Physics 12 Expired
US6229817A System and method for programming late collision slot time Electricity 12 Expired
US6526370B1 Mechanism for accumulating data to determine average values of performance parameters Physics 12 Expired
US6615378B1 Method and apparatus for holding failing information of a memory built-in self-test Physics 12 Expired

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