Inventor · Fort Collins, CO, US

Michael S. Allison

30Patents
13h-index
29Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 25, 1997 → Sep 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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