Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Steven W. Hunter

31Patents
14h-index
23Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 30, 1996 → May 11, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6629266B1 Method and system for transparent symptom-based selective software rejuvenation Physics 135 Expired
US6795928B2 Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Expired
US7418730B2 Automatic client responses to worm or hacker attacks Physics 48 Expired
US6964539B2 Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US6978398B2 Method and system for proactively reducing the outage time of a computer system Physics 44 Expired
US5754804A Method and system for managing system bus communications in a data processing system Physics 40 Expired
US6594784B1 Method and system for transparent time-based selective software rejuvenation Physics 36 Expired
US7937518B2 Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters Physics 30 Active
US6820215B2 System and method for performing automatic rejuvenation at the optimal time based on work load history in a distributed data processing environment Physics 29 Expired
US7496045B2 Broadcast of shared I/O fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to all affected root nodes Electricity 26 Active
US7907604B2 Creation and management of routing table for PCI bus address based routing with integrated DID Electricity 23 Active
US7363404B2 Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies Physics 19 Expired
US7484029B2 Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters Physics 18 Active
US7474623B2 Method of routing I/O adapter error messages in a multi-host environment Physics 17 Active
US7571273B2 Bus/device/function translation within and routing of communications packets in a PCI switched-fabric in a multi-host environment utilizing multiple root switches Physics 13 Active
US7395367B2 Method using a master node to control I/O fabric configuration in a multi-host environment Physics 9 Expired
US8488456B2 Load-balancing via modulus distribution and TCP flow redirection due to server overload Electricity 9 Active
US7430630B2 Routing mechanism in PCI multi-host topologies using destination ID field Electricity 8 Expired
US8243598B2 Load-balancing via modulus distribution and TCP flow redirection due to server overload Electricity 8 Active
US7549003B2 Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies Physics 7 Active
US7380046B2 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing packets utilizing a unique identifier, included within a standard address, that identifies the destination host computer system Electricity 7 Expired
US7492723B2 Mechanism to virtualize all address spaces in shared I/O fabrics Physics 6 Active
US7831759B2 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing packets utilizing a unique identifier, included within a standard address, that identifies the destination host computer system Electricity 6 Active
US7707465B2 Routing of shared I/O fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to a master control root node Physics 6 Active
US8243618B2 Steering fragmented IP packets using 5-tuple based rules Electricity 6 Active

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