Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Michael T. Wisor

35Patents
19h-index
17Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 1, 1993 → Oct 19, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5511203A Power management system distinguishing between primary and secondary system activity Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 150 Expired
US5774544A Method an apparatus for encrypting and decrypting microprocessor serial numbers Electricity 88 Expired
US5790663A Method and apparatus for software access to a microprocessor serial number Physics 58 Expired
US5664205A Power management control technique for timer tick activity within an interrupt driven computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US5442794A Disable technique employed during low battery conditions within a portable computer system Physics 49 Expired
US5504910A Power management unit including software configurable state register and time-out counters for protecting against misbehaved software Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US5790783A Method and apparatus for upgrading the software lock of microprocessor Physics 44 Expired
US5606662A Auto DRAM parity enable/disable mechanism Physics 31 Expired
US5999476A Bios memory and multimedia data storage combination Physics 29 Expired
US5799203A System for receiving peripheral device capability information and selectively disabling corresponding processing unit function when the device failing to support such function Physics 28 Expired
US6076160A Hardware-based system for enabling data transfers between a CPU and chip set logic of a computer system on both edges of bus clock signal Physics 28 Expired
US6247146A Method for verifying branch trace history buffer information Physics 27 Expired
US5815734A System and method for reconfiguring configuration registers of a PCI bus device in response to a change in clock signal frequency Physics 27 Expired
US6173395A Mechanism to determine actual code execution flow in a computer Physics 26 Expired
US5946497A System and method for providing microprocessor serialization using programmable fuses Physics 25 Expired
US5862366A System and method for simulating a multiprocessor environment for testing a multiprocessing interrupt controller Physics 25 Expired
US5790871A System and method for testing and debugging a multiprocessing interrupt controller Physics 24 Expired
US5964859A Allocatable post and prefetch buffers for bus bridges Physics 24 Expired
US5625807A System and method for enabling and disabling a clock run function to control a peripheral bus clock signal Physics 23 Expired
US5768499A Method and apparatus for dynamically displaying and causing the execution of software diagnostic/test programs for the silicon validation of microprocessors Physics 19 Expired
US6823435B1 Non-volatile memory system having a programmably selectable boot code section size Physics 17 Expired
US5666559A Fail-safe communication abort mechanism for parallel ports with selectable NMI or parallel port interrupt Physics 17 Expired
US6336212B1 Self modifying code to test all possible addressing modes Physics 17 Expired
US5678065A Computer system employing an enable line for selectively adjusting a peripheral bus clock frequency Physics 15 Expired
US5920891A Architecture and method for controlling a cache memory Physics 13 Expired

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