Kenneth H. Potter, Jr.
44Patents
22h-index
76Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 18, 1992 → Apr 3, 2006
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.