Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Leslie E. Cline

25Patents
13h-index
39Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 25, 1994 → Feb 8, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7149909B2 Power management for an integrated graphics device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US6704877B2 Dynamically changing the performance of devices in a computer platform Physics 38 Expired
US6738068B2 Entering and exiting power managed states without disrupting accelerated graphics port transactions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Expired
US5630171A Translating from a PIO protocol to DMA protocol with a peripheral interface circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US6988211B2 System and method for selecting a frequency and voltage combination from a table using a selection field and a read-only limit field Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US5603052A Interface circuit for transferring data between host and mass storage by assigning address in the host memory space and placing the address on the bus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US6748548B2 Computer peripheral device that remains operable when central processor operations are suspended Physics 22 Expired
US5592682A Interface circuit for transferring data between host device and mass storage device in response to designated address in host memory space assigned as data port Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6976181B2 Method and apparatus for enabling a low power mode for a processor Physics 18 Expired
US7281074B2 Method and apparatus to quiesce USB activities using interrupt descriptor caching and asynchronous notifications Physics 18 Expired
US5826107A Method and apparatus for implementing a DMA timeout counter feature Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US7523327B2 System and method of coherent data transfer during processor idle states Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Active
US6802018B2 Method and apparatus to directly access a peripheral device when central processor operations are suspended Physics 13 Expired
US7340550B2 USB schedule prefetcher for low power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7343502B2 Method and apparatus for dynamic DLL powerdown and memory self-refresh Physics 11 Expired
US6871252B1 Method and apparatus for logical detach for a hot-plug-in data bus Physics 9 Expired
US5655145A Peripheral interface circuit which snoops commands to determine when to perform DMA protocol translation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US7472289B2 Audio noise mitigation for power state transitions Physics 5 Active
US7069367B2 Method and apparatus for avoiding race condition with edge-triggered interrupts Physics 4 Expired
US9170626B2 Performance reduction limit for power consumption device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US7231468B2 Future activity list for peripheral bus host controller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US7373534B2 Reducing storage data transfer interference with processor power management Physics 2 Active
US7884499B2 Intervention of independent self-regulation of power consumption devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7225347B2 Method and apparatus for enabling a low power mode for a processor Physics 1 Expired
US7027057B2 Entering and exiting power managed states without disrupting accelerated graphics port transactions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired

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