Inventor · Austin, TX, US

John S. Lacombe

17Patents
9h-index
27Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 15, 1996 → Aug 17, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6101459A System and associated method for cooling components within a computer system Physics 87 Expired
US5918059A Method and apparatus for responding to actuation of a power supply switch for a computing system Physics 72 Expired
US7000100B2 Application-level software watchdog timer Physics 42 Expired
US5834856A Computer system comprising a method and apparatus for periodic testing of redundant devices Physics 31 Expired
US5887169A Method and apparatus for providing dynamic entry points into a software layer Physics 22 Expired
US6543010B1 Method and apparatus for accelerating a memory dump Physics 20 Expired
US7849232B2 Method and apparatus for using a single multi-function adapter with different operating systems Physics 18 Active
US6378004B1 Method of communicating asynchronous elements from a mini-port driver Physics 17 Expired
US6055647A Method and apparatus for determining computer system power supply redundancy level Physics 11 Expired
US7003775B2 Hardware implementation of an application-level watchdog timer Physics 8 Expired
US6950969B2 Cascadable dual fan controller Electricity 6 Expired
US5964875A Method and apparatus for identification of features associated with computers Physics 5 Expired
US8271694B2 Method and apparatus for using a single multi-function adapter with different operating systems Physics 5 Active
US8032664B2 Method and apparatus for using a single multi-function adapter with different operating systems Physics 5 Active
US6026495A Nonintrusive monitoring of a computer system's downtime due to a supply power outage condition Physics 5 Expired
US8489778B2 Method and apparatus for using a single multi-function adapter with different operating systems Physics 4 Active
US7143276B2 Entrypoint discovery techniques in a bios entity Physics 2 Expired

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