Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Patrick Connor

114Patents
18h-index
95Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 8, 1998 → Jul 10, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7039061B2 Methods and apparatus for retaining packet order in systems utilizing multiple transmit queues Electricity 69 Expired
US7492913B2 Location aware directed audio Electricity 61 Expired
US7065598B2 Method, system, and article of manufacture for adjusting interrupt levels Physics 50 Expired
US7164678B2 Control of processing order for received network packets Electricity 45 Expired
US7929442B2 Method, system, and program for managing congestion in a network controller Electricity 40 Active
US7454641B2 System powered from a local area network cable Electricity 39 Active
US6785751B1 Method and apparatus for minimizing bus contention for I/O controller write operations Physics 38 Expired
US7010613B2 Methods and apparatus for reducing frame overhead on local area networks Electricity 37 Expired
US6647438B1 Direct memory access transfer reduction method and apparatus to overlay data on to scatter gather descriptors for bus-mastering I/O controllers Physics 37 Expired
US6430628B1 Method and apparatus for reducing direct memory access transfers using smart coalescing Physics 36 Expired
US7512684B2 Flow based packet processing Electricity 34 Active
US7177913B2 Method, system, and program for adding operations identifying data packets to structures based on priority levels of the data packets Electricity 31 Expired
US8413198B2 System and method for the controlled on-demand distribution of content via a centralized server and a peer-to-peer network Electricity 30 Active
US7573940B2 Data transmission at energy efficient rates Physics 24 Active
US7620046B2 Dynamically assigning packet flows Electricity 23 Expired
US6735662B1 Method and apparatus for improving bus efficiency given an array of frames to transmit Electricity 22 Expired
US7046628B2 Apparatus and method for just-in-time transfer of transmit commands to a network interface Electricity 20 Expired
US6760799B1 Reduced networking interrupts Physics 20 Expired
US7149512B2 Apparatus and method to automatically adjust volume or control operation of an appliance Electricity 18 Expired
US9462084B2 Parallel processing of service functions in service function chains Physics 18 Active
US6968411B2 Interrupt processing apparatus, system, and method Physics 18 Expired
US6957281B2 Ingress processing optimization via traffic classification and grouping Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US8346999B2 Dynamic receive queue balancing with high and low thresholds Electricity 15 Active
US7177956B2 Ingress processing optimization via traffic classification and grouping Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6934776B2 Methods and apparatus for determination of packet sizes when transferring packets via a network Electricity 13 Expired

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