Inventor · Danville, CA, US

John D. Acton

17Patents
10h-index
27Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 9, 1991 → Aug 23, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5544319A Fiber optic memory coupling system with converter transmitting and receiving bus data in parallel fashion and diagnostic data in serial fashion Physics 157 Expired
US5146607A Method and apparatus for sharing information between a plurality of processing units Physics 48 Expired
US7028147B2 System and method for efficiently and reliably performing write cache mirroring Physics 26 Expired
US6094532A Multiprocessor distributed memory system and board and methods therefor Electricity 23 Expired
US6883131B2 XOR processing incorporating error correction code data protection Electricity 21 Expired
US7676625B2 Cross-coupled peripheral component interconnect express switch Physics 19 Active
US6917967B2 System and method for implementing shared memory regions in distributed shared memory systems Physics 16 Expired
US6898687B2 System and method for synchronizing access to shared resources Physics 15 Expired
US6795850B2 System and method for sharing memory among multiple storage device controllers Physics 14 Expired
US6957355B2 Method and system for dynamically adjusting storage system write cache based on the backup battery level Physics 12 Expired
US6256722A Data processing system including a shared memory resource circuit Electricity 10 Expired
US6134647A Computing system having multiple nodes coupled in series in a closed loop Electricity 6 Expired
US6442670B2 Data processing system including a shared memory resource circuit Physics 3 Expired
US7324564B2 Transmitting odd-sized packets over a double data rate link Electricity 3 Expired
US7594060B2 Data buffer allocation in a non-blocking data services platform using input/output switching fabric Physics 2 Active
US6950905B2 Write posting memory interface with block-based read-ahead mechanism Physics 1 Expired
US7472337B2 Method and system for detecting faults in an electronic engine control module Physics 1 Active

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