Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Larry Bert Brenner

43Patents
19h-index
40Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 3, 1989 → May 29, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6859926B1 Apparatus and method for workload management using class shares and tiers Physics 99 Expired
US5748958A System for utilizing batch requests to present membership changes to process groups Physics 68 Expired
US6748593B1 Apparatus and method for starvation load balancing using a global run queue in a multiple run queue system Physics 63 Expired
US6735769B1 Apparatus and method for initial load balancing in a multiple run queue system Physics 57 Expired
US6584488B1 Controlling allocation of system resources with an enhanced priority calculation Physics 52 Expired
US6658449B1 Apparatus and method for periodic load balancing in a multiple run queue system Physics 51 Expired
US6986140B2 Method for determining idle processor load balancing in a multiple processors system Physics 49 Expired
US6993767B2 System for preventing periodic load balancing if processor associated with lightest local run queue has benefited from idle processor load balancing within a determined time period Physics 45 Expired
US5896503A Managing membership of a domain of processors in a distributed computing environment Physics 44 Expired
US4967353A System for periodically reallocating page frames in memory based upon non-usage within a time period or after being allocated Physics 40 Expired
US6016505A Program product to effect barrier synchronization in a distributed computing environment Physics 38 Expired
US7065766B2 Apparatus and method for load balancing of fixed priority threads in a multiple run queue environment Physics 32 Expired
US5274823A Interrupt handling serialization for process level programming Physics 29 Expired
US6981260B2 Apparatus for minimizing lock contention in a multiple processor system with multiple run queues when determining the threads priorities Physics 29 Expired
US5392415A System for grouping non-contiguous pages belonging to a storage object for page out Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US5799149A System partitioning for massively parallel processors Physics 27 Expired
US7080379B2 Multiprocessor load balancing system for prioritizing threads and assigning threads into one of a plurality of run queues based on a priority band and a current load of the run queue Physics 26 Expired
US5768538A Barrier synchronization method wherein members dynamic voting controls the number of synchronization phases of protocols and progression to each new phase Physics 23 Expired
US6104871A Utilizing batch requests to present membership changes to process groups Physics 21 Expired
US6216150A Program product for an application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms Physics 19 Expired
US6052712A System for barrier synchronization wherein members dynamic voting controls the number of synchronization phases of protocols and progression to each subsequent phase Physics 18 Expired
US5854896A System for preserving logical partitions of distributed parallel processing system after re-booting by mapping nodes to their respective sub-environments Physics 17 Expired
US6026426A Application programming interface unifying multiple mechanisms Physics 14 Expired
US8996834B2 Memory class based heap partitioning Physics 14 Active
US7448036B2 System and method for thread scheduling with weak preemption policy Physics 14 Expired

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