Inventor · Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, US

Sherman Lee

71Patents
23h-index
28Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 18, 1976 → Feb 28, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4878166A Direct memory access apparatus and methods for transferring data between buses having different performance characteristics Physics 117 Expired
US4870622A DRAM controller cache Physics 102 Expired
US5748912A User-removable central processing unit card for an electrical device Physics 92 Expired
US5774544A Method an apparatus for encrypting and decrypting microprocessor serial numbers Electricity 88 Expired
US5142672A Data transfer controller incorporating direct memory access channels and address mapped input/output windows Physics 78 Expired
US5790041A Apparatus and method to display network connection status on a jack panel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 69 Expired
US6650880B1 Wireless data communications using FIFO for synchronization memory Electricity 66 Expired
US6490631B1 Multiple processors in a row for protocol acceleration Electricity 65 Expired
US5870554A Server selection method where a client selects a server according to address, operating system and found frame for remote booting Electricity 61 Expired
US6003100A User-removable central processing unit card for an electrical device Physics 59 Expired
US5790663A Method and apparatus for software access to a microprocessor serial number Physics 58 Expired
US5828884A Method for compiling a software program and executing on a system which converts data between different endian formats Physics 57 Expired
US5790783A Method and apparatus for upgrading the software lock of microprocessor Physics 44 Expired
US6102961A Method and apparatus for selecting IP Blocks Physics 42 Expired
US5867690A Apparatus for converting data between different endian formats and system and method employing same Physics 41 Expired
US5317715A Reduced instruction set computer system including apparatus and method for coupling a high performance RISC interface to a peripheral bus having different performance characteristics Physics 41 Expired
US5805791A Method and system for detection of and graceful recovery from a peripheral device fault Physics 39 Expired
US5836785A Apparatus and method to uniquely identify similarly connected electrical devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US5799203A System for receiving peripheral device capability information and selectively disabling corresponding processing unit function when the device failing to support such function Physics 28 Expired
US5815734A System and method for reconfiguring configuration registers of a PCI bus device in response to a change in clock signal frequency Physics 27 Expired
US5946497A System and method for providing microprocessor serialization using programmable fuses Physics 25 Expired
US5782451A Swivel base apparatus and method of making a swivel base Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 23 Expired
US5625807A System and method for enabling and disabling a clock run function to control a peripheral bus clock signal Physics 23 Expired
US5896508A Hub-network adapter device for a file server personal computer Physics 23 Expired
US6202174A Method for identifying and correcting errors in a central processing unit Physics 18 Expired

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