Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Michael Terrell Vanover

51Patents
13h-index
71Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 15, 1990 → Mar 22, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5535380A System to reduce latency for real time interrupts Physics 55 Expired
US5463739A Apparatus for vetoing reallocation requests during a data transfer based on data bus latency and the number of received reallocation requests below a threshold Physics 42 Expired
US5068819A Floating point apparatus with concurrent input/output operations Physics 39 Expired
US5909552A Method and apparatus for processing packed data Physics 35 Expired
US5283860A System and method for displaying trimmed surfaces using bitplane masking Physics 30 Expired
US6920561B1 Method and system for enabling free seating using biometrics through a centralized authentication Physics 28 Expired
US7234157B2 Remote authentication caching on a trusted client or gateway system Electricity 23 Expired
US5469541A Window specific control of overlay planes in a graphics display system Physics 19 Expired
US6704868B1 Method for associating a pass phase with a secured public/private key pair Electricity 18 Expired
US5548737A Dynamic load balancing for a multiprocessor pipeline by sorting instructions based on predetermined execution time Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US7962739B2 Recovering from hard disk errors that corrupt one or more critical system boot files Physics 15 Active
US5386505A Selective control of window related overlays and underlays Physics 14 Expired
US6718468B1 Method for associating a password with a secured public/private key pair Electricity 14 Expired
US7389352B2 System and method for concurrent WLAN and WPAN wireless modes from a single device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US5600773A Logical partitioning of gamma ramp frame buffer for overlay or animation Physics 9 Expired
US7383575B2 System and method for automatic password reset Physics 8 Expired
US8274786B2 Flippable I/O port for portable computer Physics 7 Active
US7707630B2 Remote authentication caching on a trusted client or gateway system Electricity 6 Active
US10387025B2 Multi-mode user interface Physics 5 Active
US10503524B2 Interception of a function call, selecting a function from available functions and rerouting the function call Physics 4 Active
US7222143B2 Safely restoring previously un-backed up data during system restore of a failing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US10203747B2 Workload placement based on heterogeneous compute performance per watt Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9471214B2 Multi-mode user interface Physics 3 Active
US8122294B2 Apparatus, system, and method for rapid grading of computer storage operating condition Physics 3 Active
US10860499B2 Dynamic memory management in workload acceleration Physics 2 Active

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