Inventor · Los Gatos, CA, US

Kevin Normoyle

51Patents
23h-index
53Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 14, 1985 → Aug 24, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5655100A Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction execution in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 275 Expired
US5634068A Packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 119 Expired
US4939638A Time sliced vector processing Physics 113 Expired
US5905998A Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction processing in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 110 Expired
US5644753A Fast, dual ported cache controller for data processors in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 103 Expired
US5684977A Writeback cancellation processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 88 Expired
US5692197A Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a computer network without sacrificing performance Physics 82 Expired
US5657472A Memory transaction execution system and method for multiprocessor system having independent parallel transaction queues associated with each processor Physics 74 Expired
US7337339B1 Multi-level power monitoring, filtering and throttling at local blocks and globally Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 67 Active
US5884100A Low-latency, high-throughput, integrated cache coherent I/O system for a single-chip processor Physics 66 Expired
US7203890B1 Address error detection by merging a polynomial-based CRC code of address bits with two nibbles of data or data ECC bits Physics 64 Expired
US5852608A Structure and method for bi-directional data transfer between asynchronous clock domains Physics 63 Expired
US5893153A Method and apparatus for preventing a race condition and maintaining cache coherency in a processor with integrated cache memory and input/output control Physics 51 Expired
US5892957A Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in packet-switched microprocessor-based computer system Physics 47 Expired
US7437597B1 Write-back cache with different ECC codings for clean and dirty lines with refetching of uncorrectable clean lines Physics 45 Active
US5689713A Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in a packet-switched computer system Physics 40 Expired
US5706463A Cache coherent computer system that minimizes invalidation and copyback operations Physics 35 Expired
US7376800B1 Speculative multiaddress atomicity Physics 34 Expired
US5070475A Floating point unit interface Physics 28 Expired
US7332929B1 Wide-scan on-chip logic analyzer with global trigger and interleaved SRAM capture buffers Physics 27 Active
US5761708A Apparatus and method to speculatively initiate primary memory accesses Physics 26 Expired
US5710891A Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system Physics 25 Expired
US7398449B1 Encoding 64-bit data nibble error correct and cyclic-redundancy code (CRC) address error detect for use on a 76-bit memory module Physics 25 Active
US5987081A Method and apparatus for a testable high frequency synchronizer Electricity 23 Expired
US4949247A System for transferring multiple vector data elements to and from vector memory in a single operation Physics 18 Expired

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