Patrick Connor
114Patents
18h-index
95Co-inventors
89Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 8, 1998 → Jul 10, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.