Inventor · Dripping Springs, TX, US

Rodney Schmidt

35Patents
16h-index
20Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: May 31, 1994 → Jun 13, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5951664A Computer system having a multimedia bus and including improved time slotting and bus allocation Physics 103 Expired
US5721931A Multiprocessing system employing an adaptive interrupt mapping mechanism and method Physics 77 Expired
US6854039B1 Memory management system and method providing increased memory access security Physics 62 Expired
US6823433B1 Memory management system and method for providing physical address based memory access security Physics 57 Expired
US5564060A Interrupt handling mechanism to prevent spurious interrupts in a symmetrical multiprocessing system Physics 40 Expired
US7383432B1 Software modem with hidden authentication commands Electricity 37 Expired
US6598144B1 Arrangement for limiting access to addresses by a consumer process instigating work in a channel adapter based on virtual address mapping Physics 35 Expired
US8135962B2 System and method providing region-granular, hardware-controlled memory encryption Physics 33 Active
US5905898A Apparatus and method for storing interrupt source information in an interrupt controller based upon interrupt priority Physics 31 Expired
US5613126A Timer tick auto-chaining technique within a symmetrical multiprocessing system Physics 28 Expired
US7493498B1 Input/output permission bitmaps for compartmentalized security Physics 28 Expired
US5862366A System and method for simulating a multiprocessor environment for testing a multiprocessing interrupt controller Physics 25 Expired
US8489789B2 Interrupt virtualization Physics 25 Active
US6842803B2 Computer system with privileged-mode modem driver Physics 22 Expired
US5727227A Interrupt coprocessor configured to process interrupts in a computer system Physics 21 Expired
US7426644B1 System and method for handling device accesses to a memory providing increased memory access security Physics 17 Expired
US6785790B1 Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving security attributes Physics 16 Expired
US5778236A Multiprocessing interrupt controller on I/O bus Physics 16 Expired
US7325250B1 Method and apparatus for preventing radio communication system access by an unauthorized modem Electricity 13 Expired
US8706941B2 Interrupt virtualization Physics 12 Active
US7702801B1 Determining logon status in a broadband network system and automatically restoring logon connectivity Physics 11 Active
US8051301B2 Memory management system and method providing linear address based memory access security Physics 6 Active
US7865948B1 Method and apparatus for restricted execution of security sensitive instructions Physics 6 Active
US7631160B2 Method and apparatus for securing portions of memory Physics 5 Active
US7197768B2 Software modem for communicating data using encrypted data and unencrypted control codes Electricity 5 Expired

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