Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Scott E. Swanstrom

23Patents
15h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 9, 1994 → Jul 19, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7174467B1 Message based power management in a multi-processor system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 85 Expired
US7231474B1 Serial interface having a read temperature command Physics 83 Expired
US7051218B1 Message based power management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US5598539A Apparatus and method for achieving hot docking capabilities for a dockable computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US5598537A Apparatus and method for driving a bus to a docking safe state in a dockable computer system including a docking station and a portable computer Physics 59 Expired
US5632020A System for docking a portable computer to a host computer without suspending processor operation by a docking agent driving the bus inactive during docking Physics 57 Expired
US5956493A Bus arbiter including programmable request latency counters for varying arbitration priority Physics 50 Expired
US5668977A Dockable computer system capable of electric and electromagnetic communication Physics 45 Expired
US5822568A System for improving the real-time functionality of a personal computer which employs an interrupt servicing DMA controller Physics 38 Expired
US5754801A Computer system having a multimedia bus and comprising a centralized I/O processor which performs intelligent data transfers Electricity 34 Expired
US5754884A Method for improving the real-time functionality of a personal computer which employs an interrupt servicing DMA controller Physics 28 Expired
US7146510B1 Use of a signal line to adjust width and/or frequency of a communication link during system operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US5964859A Allocatable post and prefetch buffers for bus bridges Physics 24 Expired
US5790815A Computer system having a multimedia bus and comprising a centralized I/O processor which performs intelligent byte slicing Physics 21 Expired
US6035364A Independent use of bits on an on-chip bus Physics 15 Expired
US5687381A Microprocessor including an interrupt polling unit configured to poll external devices for interrupts using interrupt acknowledge bus transactions Physics 15 Expired
US5920891A Architecture and method for controlling a cache memory Physics 13 Expired
US5872942A Computer system having a multimedia bus and comprising a centralized I/O processor which performs intelligent byte slicing Physics 10 Expired
US5948093A Microprocessor including an interrupt polling unit configured to poll external devices for interrupts when said microprocessor is in a task switch state Physics 9 Expired
US6047350A Computer system which performs intelligent byte slicing on a multi-byte wide bus Physics 6 Expired
US6061756A Computer system which performs intelligent byte slicing/data packing on a multi-byte wide bus Physics 6 Expired
US11436114B2 Automatic part testing Physics 0 Active
US11068368B2 Automatic part testing Physics 0 Active

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