Inventor · Mendon, MA, US

John K. Walton

49Patents
14h-index
27Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 23, 1996 → Jun 30, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6779150B1 CRC error detection system and method Physics 75 Expired
US6389494B1 System for interfacing a data storage system to a host utilizing a plurality of busses for carrying end-user data and a separate bus for carrying interface state data Physics 58 Expired
US6904556B2 Systems and methods which utilize parity sets Physics 51 Expired
US6973551B1 Data storage system having atomic memory operation Physics 46 Expired
US6886116B1 Data storage system adapted to validate error detection logic used in such system Physics 37 Expired
US6636933B1 Data storage system having crossbar switch with multi-staged routing Physics 32 Expired
US6578126B1 Memory system and method of using same Physics 30 Expired
US7552282B1 Method, computer readable medium, and data storage system for selective data replication of cached data Physics 25 Expired
US6910145B2 Data transmission across asynchronous clock domains Electricity 24 Expired
US5943287A Fault tolerant memory system Physics 22 Expired
US5822777A Dual bus data storage system having an addressable memory with timer controller fault detection of data transfer between the memory and the buses Physics 20 Expired
US6347365B1 Data storage system having a[n] memory responsive to clock pulses produced on a bus and clock pulses produced by an internal clock Physics 20 Expired
US6195770A Data storage system Physics 19 Expired
US6804794B1 Error condition handling Physics 18 Expired
US5953265A Memory having error detection and correction Physics 14 Expired
US6687797B1 Arbitration system and method Physics 14 Expired
USD587182S1 Anchor General 14 Expired
US6397281B1 Bus arbitration system Physics 13 Expired
US6145042A Timing protocol for a data storage system Physics 13 Expired
US5886930A Bit interleaving in a memory which uses multi-bit DRAMs Physics 12 Expired
US5959932A Method and apparatus for detecting errors in the writing of data to a memory Physics 11 Expired
US7774631B1 Method and system for minimizing power consumption in a multiprocessor data storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US7124245B1 Data storage system having cache memory manager with packet switching network Physics 10 Expired
US6882620B1 Token exchange system with fault protection Electricity 10 Expired
US6594739B1 Memory system and method of using same Physics 10 Expired

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