Inventor · Loomis, CA, US

John A. Wickeraad

43Patents
11h-index
22Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 23, 1987 → Oct 30, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6490654B2 Method and apparatus for replacing cache lines in a cache memory Physics 64 Expired
US4789874A Single channel encoder system Physics 53 Expired
US6636906B1 Apparatus and method for ensuring forward progress in coherent I/O systems Physics 43 Expired
US6247137A Delaying clock and data signals to force synchronous operation in digital systems that determine phase relationships between clocks with related frequencies Physics 25 Expired
US6718454B1 Systems and methods for prefetch operations to reduce latency associated with memory access Physics 22 Expired
US6662313B1 System and method for multiple cycle capture of chip state Physics 20 Expired
US7596741B2 Packet protection for header modification Electricity 20 Active
US5944843A Method and apparatus for using the unused bits of a data packet to transmit additional information Electricity 15 Expired
US7346812B1 Apparatus and method for implementing programmable levels of error severity Physics 14 Expired
US7325164B2 System and method for multiple cycle capture of chip state Physics 11 Expired
US6647469B1 Using read current transactions for improved performance in directory-based coherent I/O systems Physics 11 Expired
US6928525B1 Per cache line semaphore for cache access arbitration Physics 10 Expired
US7594158B2 Parity error checking and compare using shared logic circuitry in a ternary content addressable memory Physics 7 Active
US6591332B1 Apparatus and method for tracking flushes of cache entries in a data processing system Physics 6 Expired
US7221126B1 Apparatus and method to align clocks for repeatable system testing Physics 6 Expired
US7757152B2 Data corruption scrubbing for content addressable memory and ternary content addressable memory Physics 6 Active
US6775640B1 Performance adder for tracking occurrence of events within a circuit Physics 6 Expired
US7624313B2 TCAM BIST with redundancy Physics 4 Active
US7852653B2 Content addressable memory Physics 4 Active
US8627448B2 Selective invalidation of packet filtering results Electricity 4 Active
US7602629B2 Content addressable memory Physics 3 Active
US7571371B2 Parallel parity checking for content addressable memory and ternary content addressable memory Physics 3 Active
US8327031B2 Support chip for handling network chips on a network device Electricity 3 Active
US8245109B2 Error checking and correction (ECC) system and method Physics 2 Active
US8473832B2 Parity error checking and compare using shared logic circuitry in a ternary content addressable memory Physics 2 Active

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