Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Joseph A. Schaefer

21Patents
7h-index
37Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 21, 1982 → Aug 18, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7310319B2 Multiple-domain processing system using hierarchically orthogonal switching fabric Electricity 63 Expired
US7320080B2 Power management over switching fabrics Electricity 28 Expired
US6629192B1 Method and apparatus for use of a non-volatile storage management system for PC/AT compatible system firmware Physics 24 Expired
US7443869B2 Deadlock avoidance queuing mechanism Electricity 22 Active
US4472296A Bulk, polycrystalline switching materials for threshold and/or memory switching Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US6606679B2 Software transparent system and method for peer-to-peer message routing Electricity 7 Expired
US7167941B2 Multi-port device configuration Physics 7 Expired
US7120711B2 System and method for communicating over intra-hierarchy and inter-hierarchy links Physics 5 Expired
US9835978B2 Notched end seal for an electrophotographic image forming device Physics 4 Active
US6785806B1 Bios having macro/effector pairs for hardware initialization Physics 4 Expired
US8321600B2 Asymmetrical universal serial bus communications Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8335866B2 Asymmetrical serial communications Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US6732261B2 Method and apparatus for implementing a register scan process Physics 3 Expired
US9575536B2 Methods and apparatus to estimate power performance of a job that runs on multiple nodes of a distributed computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9927857B2 Profiling a job power and energy consumption for a data processing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US6594663B2 Method and apparatus for implementing and maintaining a configuration database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US7808989B2 Multiple-domain processing system using hierarchically orthogonal switching fabric Electricity 1 Active
US9921633B2 Power aware job scheduler and manager for a data processing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7399064B2 Ink jetting assembly Performing Operations; Transporting 1 Active
US7447208B2 Configuration access mechanism for packet switching architecture Electricity 0 Active
US9104821B2 Universal serial bus host to host communications Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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