John J. Pearce
24Patents
16h-index
13Co-inventors
70Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 21, 1989 → Jun 13, 1997
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.