Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Michael J. Corrigan

33Patents
14h-index
75Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 31, 1989 → Nov 28, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5933497A Apparatus and method for controlling access to software Physics 251 Expired
US5109512A Process for dispatching tasks among multiple information processors Physics 119 Expired
US5682499A Directory rebuild method and apparatus for maintaining and rebuilding directory information for compressed data on direct access storage device (DASD) Physics 80 Expired
US6324620A Dynamic DASD data management and partitioning based on access frequency utilization and capacity Physics 72 Expired
US6691146B1 Logical partition manager and method Physics 67 Expired
US5193168A Multiprocessing system with enhanced shared storage Physics 43 Expired
US5179662A Optimized I/O buffers having the ability to increase or decrease in size to meet system requirements Physics 43 Expired
US5710909A Data compression utilization method and apparatus for computer main store Physics 43 Expired
US6574721B1 Apparatus and method for providing simultaneous local and global addressing using software to distinguish between local and global addresses Physics 42 Expired
US7296120B2 Mechanism that provides efficient multi-word load atomicity Physics 37 Expired
US5765201A Changing page size in storage media of computer system Physics 26 Expired
US6025015A Simultaneous coatings of stearamide lubricant layer Physics 21 Expired
US7389400B2 Apparatus and method for selectively invalidating entries in an address translation cache Physics 21 Active
US5734910A Integrating multi-modal synchronous interrupt handlers for computer system Physics 17 Expired
US7512826B2 Method, apparatus, and product for an efficient virtualized time base in a scaleable multi-processor computer Physics 14 Active
US8019962B2 System and method for tracking the memory state of a migrating logical partition Physics 14 Active
US5798136A Simultaneous coatings of wax dispersion containing lubricant layer and transparent magnetic recording layer for photographic element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US5897662A Pseudo-random address generation mechanism that reduces address translation time Physics 12 Expired
US8447909B2 Register access in distributed virtual bridge environment Electricity 11 Active
US5821027A Simultaneous coatings of polymeric lubricant layer and transparent magnetic recording layer for photographic element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US7802252B2 Method and apparatus for selecting the architecture level to which a processor appears to conform Physics 9 Active
US7822942B2 Selectively invalidating entries in an address translation cache Physics 6 Active
US6990560B2 Task synchronization mechanism and method Physics 4 Expired
US5756272A Simultaneous coatings of stearamide lubricant layer and transparent magnetic recording layer for photographic element Physics 4 Expired
US5147846A Surfactant for use in thermal dye transfer receiving element subbing layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired

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