Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Kenneth H. Potter, Jr.

44Patents
22h-index
76Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 18, 1992 → Apr 3, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6757768B1 Apparatus and technique for maintaining order among requests issued over an external bus of an intermediate network node Physics 142 Expired
US6304575A Token ring spanning tree protocol Electricity 118 Expired
US5343473A Method of determining whether to use preempt/resume or alternate protocol for data transmission Electricity 99 Expired
US7623455B2 Method and apparatus for dynamic load balancing over a network link bundle Electricity 88 Active
US5309433A Methods and apparatus for routing packets in packet transmission networks Electricity 85 Expired
US6847645B1 Method and apparatus for controlling packet header buffer wrap around in a forwarding engine of an intermediate network node Electricity 84 Expired
US6137797A Process definition for source route switching Electricity 83 Expired
US6804815B1 Sequence control mechanism for enabling out of order context processing Electricity 64 Expired
US5425021A Packet switching resource management within nodes Electricity 57 Expired
US6529983B1 Group and virtual locking mechanism for inter processor synchronization Physics 54 Expired
US6832279B1 Apparatus and technique for maintaining order among requests directed to a same address on an external bus of an intermediate network node Physics 53 Expired
US5483522A Packet switching resource management within nodes Electricity 51 Expired
US6505269B1 Dynamic addressing mapping to eliminate memory resource contention in a symmetric multiprocessor system Physics 43 Expired
US7111092B1 Buffer management technique for a hypertransport data path protocol Physics 34 Expired
US7155722B1 System and method for process load balancing in a multi-processor environment Physics 34 Expired
US7117308B1 Hypertransport data path protocol Physics 33 Expired
US6704318B1 Switched token ring over ISL (TR-ISL) network Electricity 30 Expired
US6662252B1 Group and virtual locking mechanism for inter processor synchronization Physics 29 Expired
US6976149B1 Mapping technique for computing addresses in a memory of an intermediate network node Electricity 29 Expired
US6563832B1 Token ring bridge distributed in a switched fabric Electricity 27 Expired
US6035416A Method and apparatus for interface dual modular redundancy Physics 23 Expired
US7290105B1 Zero overhead resource locks with attributes Physics 23 Expired
US6560227B1 LAN frame copy decision for LAN switches Electricity 20 Expired
US7254687B1 Memory controller that tracks queue operations to detect race conditions Physics 20 Expired
US5793764A LAN switch with distributed copy function Electricity 20 Expired

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