Inventor · Hillsboro, OR, US

John S. Howard

40Patents
11h-index
38Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 8, 1998 → Jul 7, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6792495B1 Transaction scheduling for a bus system Electricity 49 Expired
US6813251B1 Split Transaction protocol for a bus system Physics 43 Expired
US6748465B2 Local bus polling support buffer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US6067591A Method and apparatus for avoidance of invalid transactions in a bus host controller Physics 27 Expired
US7213096B2 Operating a remote USB host controller Electricity 24 Expired
US7228366B2 Method and apparatus for deterministic removal and reclamation of work items from an expansion bus schedule Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US7490255B2 Power efficient flow control model for USB asynchronous transfers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Active
US6389501B1 I/O peripheral device for use in a store-and-forward segment of a peripheral bus Physics 15 Expired
US6678761B2 Method and apparatus for budget development under universal serial bus protocol in a multiple speed transmission environment Physics 14 Expired
US7702825B2 Enhancements to universal serial bus (USB) suspend and resume operations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Active
US6217076A Maintenance scheduling and tracking system Performing Operations; Transporting 13 Expired
US7340550B2 USB schedule prefetcher for low power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7007119B2 System and method for supporting split transactions on a bus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US6684272B1 Throughput enhancement for a universal host controller interface in a universal serial bus Physics 10 Expired
US7675871B2 Split transaction protocol for a bus system Physics 10 Active
US6771664B1 Transaction scheduling for a bus system in a multiple speed environment Electricity 10 Expired
US6606674B1 Method and apparatus for reducing circular list's thrashing by detecting the queues' status on a circular linked list Physics 8 Expired
US7007110B2 Nak throttling for USB host controllers Physics 8 Expired
US6952429B2 Transaction scheduling for a bus system in a multiple speed environment Electricity 5 Expired
US7028124B2 Method and apparatus for dual queue head processing of interrupt endpoints Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US10127012B2 Scalable input/output system and techniques to transmit data between domains without a central processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US10366017B2 Methods and apparatus to offload media streams in host devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US11074042B2 Scalable input/output system and techniques to transmit data between domains without a central processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US10592205B2 Scalable input/output system and techniques to transmit data between domains without a central processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US6546018B1 Digital system having a peripheral bus structure with at least one store-and-forward segment Physics 2 Expired

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