Inventor · Northborough, MA, US

Richard E. Kessler

156Patents
31h-index
91Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 31, 1977 → Mar 20, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6789147B1 Interface for a security coprocessor Physics 261 Expired
US5864738A Massively parallel processing system using two data paths: one connecting router circuit to the interconnect network and the other connecting router circuit to I/O controller Physics 200 Expired
US5841973A Messaging in distributed memory multiprocessing system having shell circuitry for atomic control of message storage queue's tail pointer structure in local memory Physics 160 Expired
US5583990A System for allocating messages between virtual channels to avoid deadlock and to optimize the amount of message traffic on each type of virtual channel Electricity 116 Expired
US5761706A Stream buffers for high-performance computer memory system Physics 98 Expired
US7558925B2 Selective replication of data structures Physics 97 Active
US5721921A Barrier and eureka synchronization architecture for multiprocessors Physics 90 Expired
US8392590B2 Deterministic finite automata (DFA) processing Electricity 79 Active
US7100096B2 Special encoding of known bad data Physics 71 Expired
US6738836B1 Scalable efficient I/O port protocol Physics 70 Expired
US5835925A Using external registers to extend memory reference capabilities of a microprocessor Physics 68 Expired
US7895431B2 Packet queuing, scheduling and ordering Electricity 60 Active
US9501245B2 Systems and methods for NVMe controller virtualization to support multiple virtual machines running on a host Physics 57 Active
US5737628A Multiprocessor computer system with interleaved processing element nodes Electricity 56 Expired
US7535907B2 TCP engine Electricity 56 Active
US6463523B1 Method and apparatus for delaying the execution of dependent loads Physics 56 Expired
US6216174A System and method for fast barrier synchronization Physics 55 Expired
US9294567B2 Systems and methods for enabling access to extensible storage devices over a network as local storage via NVME controller Physics 55 Active
US5797035A Networked multiprocessor system with global distributed memory and block transfer engine Electricity 54 Expired
US6751721B1 Broadcast invalidate scheme Physics 52 Expired
US6633960B1 Scalable directory based cache coherence protocol Physics 49 Expired
US6622225B1 System for minimizing memory bank conflicts in a computer system Physics 49 Expired
US6704817B1 Computer architecture and system for efficient management of bi-directional bus Physics 46 Expired
US7613813B2 Method and apparatus for reducing host overhead in a socket server implementation Electricity 45 Active
US7209531B1 Apparatus and method for data deskew Electricity 37 Expired

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