Inventor · North Palm Beach, FL, US

John Dinwiddie

31Patents
20h-index
17Co-inventors
82Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 19, 1975 → Apr 6, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6481013B1 Entertainment and computer coaxial network and method of distributing signals therethrough Human Necessities 268 Expired
US5113522A Data processing system with system resource management for itself and for an associated alien processor Physics 167 Expired
US4309754A Data interface mechanism for interfacing bit-parallel data buses of different bit width Physics 113 Expired
US4086916A Cardiac monitor wristwatch Human Necessities 104 Expired
US5434590A Multimedia system Physics 104 Expired
US4371932A I/O Controller for transferring data between a host processor and multiple I/O units Physics 89 Expired
US5369749A Method and apparatus for the direct transfer of information between application programs running on distinct processors without utilizing the services of one or both operating systems Physics 88 Expired
US5325517A Fault tolerant data processing system Physics 85 Expired
US5155809A Uncoupling a central processing unit from its associated hardware for interaction with data handling apparatus alien to the operating system controlling said unit and hardware Physics 72 Expired
US5283868A Providing additional system characteristics to a data processing system through operations of an application program, transparently to the operating system Physics 60 Expired
US5388215A Uncoupling a central processing unit from its associated hardware for interaction with data handling apparatus alien to the operating system controlling said unit and hardware Physics 59 Expired
US5701502A Isolating a central processing unit from the operating system controlling said unit and its associated hardware for interaction of the unit with data handling apparatus alien to the operating system Physics 56 Expired
US5144692A System for controlling access by first system to portion of main memory dedicated exclusively to second system to facilitate input/output processing via first system Physics 55 Expired
US5245322A Bus architecture for a multimedia system Physics 52 Expired
US5434592A Multimedia expansion unit Physics 43 Expired
US4417304A Synchronous cycle steal mechanism for transferring data between a processor storage unit and a separate data handling unit Physics 39 Expired
US5363497A System for removing section of memory from first system and allocating to second system in a manner indiscernable to both operating systems Physics 34 Expired
US4479179A Synchronous cycle steal mechanism for transferring data between a processor storage unit and a separate data handling unit Physics 33 Expired
US5230041A Bus interface circuit for a multimedia system Physics 33 Expired
US5369767A Servicing interrupt requests in a data processing system without using the services of an operating system Physics 22 Expired
US9564268B2 Power receiver for extracting power from electric field energy in the earth Electricity 13 Active
USD417671S Remote control General 13 Expired
USD425902S Modulator General 10 Expired
USD426192S Distribution unit General 10 Expired
US7986990B2 System and method for detecting extremely low frequency electric fields in the human body Human Necessities 2 Active

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