Inventor · Alamo, TX, US

John J. Pearce

24Patents
16h-index
13Co-inventors
70Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 21, 1989 → Jun 13, 1997

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5657445A Apparatus and method for limiting access to mass storage devices in a computer system Physics 184 Expired
US5745568A Method of securing CD-ROM data for retrieval by one machine Physics 74 Expired
US5617572A System for reducing power consumption in computers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US5944831A Power management apparatus and method for managing power application to individual circuit cards Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Expired
US5796984A Operating system independent apparatus and method for eliminating peripheral device functions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Expired
US5691742A Software battery gauge for portable computers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US5805880A Operating system independent method for avoiding operating system security for operations performed by essential utilities Physics 40 Expired
US6192471A Operating system independent system for running utility programs in a defined environment Physics 36 Expired
US4930065A Automatic data channels for a computer system Physics 33 Expired
US5539879A Checksum technique for verifying integrity of disk space reserved for suspend-to-disk operations Physics 32 Expired
US5754853A System for executing utility programs while preserving the state of a native operating system Physics 32 Expired
US5896534A Operating system independent apparatus and method for supporting input/output devices unsupported by executing programs Physics 30 Expired
US5819100A Operating system independent method and system for preserving hard disk drive life span in power managed computers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US5828877A Circuit and method for optimizing creation of a compressed main memory image Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US5634132A Operating system independent support for mixed voltage devices Physics 22 Expired
US5958054A System and method for emulating an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) using a portable computer Electricity 18 Expired
US5675814A Apparatus and method for managing power consumption by I/O ports in a computer system Physics 15 Expired
US6178550A Mechanism for optimizing location of machine-dependent code Physics 14 Expired
US5680540A Suspend-to-disk system for removable hard drive Physics 14 Expired
US5694582A Operation system independent polled interface for extension BIOS (XBIOS) operations Physics 13 Expired
US5600840A Automatic adjustment of disk space required for suspend-to-disk operation Physics 13 Expired
US5636041A Technique for increasing the visibility of an LCD panel during warm-up thereof Physics 12 Expired
US5771390A System and method for cascading from a power managed suspend state to a suspend-to-disk state in a computer system Physics 7 Expired
US6484308B1 System and method for ensuring data integrity on a removable hard drive Physics 7 Expired

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