John S. Howard
40Patents
11h-index
38Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 8, 1998 → Jul 7, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.