Michael S. Allison
30Patents
13h-index
29Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 25, 1997 → Sep 27, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6094531A | Method and apparatus for automatically installing operating systems machines | Physics | 98 | Expired |
| US8683457B1 | Updating firmware of an electronic device by storing a version identifier in a separate header | Physics | 69 | Active |
| US7055035B2 | Method for generating a read only memory image | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US6163805A | Distributed automated testing system | Physics | 60 | Expired |
| US6014760A | Scheduling method and apparatus for a distributed automated testing system | Physics | 57 | Expired |
| US7200845B2 | System and method for high availability firmware load | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US6360268B1 | Distributed automated testing system | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6167537A | Communications protocol for an automated testing system | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7036035B2 | System and method for power management in a computer system having multiple power grids | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6223306A | Method and apparatus for testing X servers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US6470408B1 | Apparatus and method for delivering interrupts via an APIC bus to IA-32 processors | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US9042197B2 | Power fail protection and recovery using low power states in a data storage device/system | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7350088B2 | Power management system for UPS attached to external devices | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6883091B2 | Reducing boot times via intrusion monitoring | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US6601165B2 | Apparatus and method for implementing fault resilient booting in a multi-processor system by using a flush command to control resetting of the processors and isolating failed processors | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6625679B1 | Apparatus and method for converting interrupt transactions to interrupt signals to distribute interrupts to IA-32 processors | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7065560B2 | Verification of computer program versions based on a selected recipe from a recipe table | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US6910142B2 | System for detection and routing of platform events in a multi-cell computer | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7568090B2 | Speedy boot for computer systems | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8806283B1 | Automatic and on-demand testing of non-volatile storage devices | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US10949120B2 | Host defined bandwidth allocation for SSD tasks | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US11797433B2 | Zoned namespace with zone grouping | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7539832B2 | Option ROM code acquisition | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US7600111B2 | Method of restarting a computer platform | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7962734B2 | Method of restarting a computer platform | Physics | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.