Inventor · Bristol, GB

Michael David May

50Patents
18h-index
22Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 16, 1983 → Oct 21, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6356960B1 Microprocessor having an on-chip CPU fetching a debugging routine from a memory in an external debugging device in response to a control signal received through a debugging port Physics 99 Expired
US5140583A Message routing Electricity 51 Expired
US4758948A Microcomputer Physics 49 Expired
US6415344B1 System and method for on-chip communication Physics 43 Expired
US5130977A Message routing Electricity 42 Expired
US6414368B1 Microcomputer with high density RAM on single chip Physics 41 Expired
US4704678A Function set for a microcomputer Physics 36 Expired
US6564314B1 Computer instruction compression Physics 34 Expired
US4724517A Microcomputer with prefixing functions Physics 33 Expired
US4989133A System for executing, scheduling, and selectively linking time dependent processes based upon scheduling time thereof Physics 30 Expired
US4967326A Microcomputer building block Physics 30 Expired
US6301657A System and method for booting a computer Physics 26 Expired
US5031092A Microcomputer with high density ram in separate isolation well on single chip Physics 23 Expired
US5495619A Apparatus providing addressable storage locations as virtual links and storing predefined destination information for any messages transmitted on virtual links at these locations Electricity 23 Expired
US5422881A Message encoding Electricity 23 Expired
US4680698A High density ROM in separate isolation well on single with chip Physics 21 Expired
US4819151A Microcomputer Physics 21 Expired
US7676653B2 Compact instruction set encoding Physics 19 Active
US4794526A Microcomputer with priority scheduling Physics 18 Expired
US5327127A Message encoding which utilizes control codes and data codes Electricity 18 Expired
US6009508A System and method for addressing plurality of data values with a single address in a multi-value store on FIFO basis Physics 17 Expired
US4811277A Communication interface Electricity 14 Expired
US6694407B1 Cache memory with data transfer control and method of operating same Physics 14 Expired
US5506437A Microcomputer with high density RAM in separate isolation well on single chip Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US4692861A Microcomputer with interprocess communication Physics 14 Expired

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