Inventor · Chapel Hill, NC, US

Simon Chu

36Patents
13h-index
59Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 21, 1998 → Mar 13, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7418730B2 Automatic client responses to worm or hacker attacks Physics 48 Expired
US6346954B1 User interface for configuring and managing a multi-drive data storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6636958B2 Appliance server with a drive partitioning scheme that accommodates application growth in size Physics 45 Expired
US7895428B2 Applying firmware updates to servers in a data center Physics 37 Active
US7350068B2 Server blade network boot method that minimizes required network bandwidth Physics 36 Expired
US6802611B2 System and method for presenting, capturing, and modifying images on a presentation board Electricity 36 Expired
US6898705B2 Automatic appliance server re-provision/re-purposing method Physics 32 Expired
US7171479B2 Efficient delivery of boot code images from a network server Electricity 30 Expired
US6633909B1 Notification method that guarantees a system manager discovers an SNMP agent Electricity 29 Expired
US7194619B2 Remotely booting devices in a dense server environment without manually installing authentication parameters on the devices to be booted Physics 19 Expired
US7213102B2 Apparatus method and system for alternate control of a RAID array Physics 14 Expired
US7512830B2 Management module failover across multiple blade center chassis Physics 14 Active
US7194659B2 Method and system for detection and correction of entrance into an improper MBR state in a computer system Physics 13 Expired
US6934864B2 System and method for co-operative thermal management of electronic devices within a common housing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US7933739B2 Automated analysis of datacenter layout using temperature sensor positions Physics 11 Active
US7415519B2 System and method for prevention of boot storms in a computer network Electricity 9 Expired
US6883125B2 Logging insertion/removal of server blades in a data processing system Physics 8 Expired
US6993583B2 Dynamically sharing a pool of IP addresses Electricity 8 Expired
US7117349B2 Method and system for restricting DHCP servers Electricity 7 Expired
US7330965B2 Multi-tiered boot list Physics 6 Expired
US7114068B2 Method and system for restricting PXE servers Physics 6 Expired
US8756390B2 Methods and apparatuses for protecting data on mass storage devices Physics 5 Expired
US7574534B2 Method for using device enumeration information to identify an operating system running on a computer system Physics 5 Active
US7194655B2 Method and system for autonomously rebuilding a failed server and a computer system utilizing the same Physics 5 Expired
US7130995B2 Secure switching for downloading network boots Electricity 4 Expired

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