Thomas A. Dye
57Patents
32h-index
21Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 3, 1986 → Mar 7, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5642171A | Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video data streams in a multimedia system | Electricity | 377 | Expired |
| US6523102B1 | PARALLEL COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF IN-MEMORY COMPRESSED CACHE IMPROVING STORAGE DENSITY AND ACCESS SPEED FOR INDUSTRY STANDARD MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS AND IN-LINE MEMORY MODULES | Physics | 365 | Expired |
| US6145069A | Parallel decompression and compression system and method for improving storage density and access speed for non-volatile memory and embedded memory devices | Electricity | 291 | Expired |
| US6170047A | System and method for managing system memory and/or non-volatile memory using a memory controller with integrated compression and decompression capabilities | Physics | 272 | Expired |
| US6173381A | Memory controller including embedded data compression and decompression engines | Physics | 248 | Expired |
| US6370631B1 | Memory controller including compression/decompression capabilities for improved data access | Physics | 239 | Expired |
| US8477778B2 | Applying multicast protocols and VPN tunneling techniques to achieve high quality of service for real time media transport across IP networks | Electricity | 227 | Active |
| US6879266B1 | Memory module including scalable embedded parallel data compression and decompression engines | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 216 | Expired |
| US6002411A | Integrated video and memory controller with data processing and graphical processing capabilities | Physics | 203 | Expired |
| US7190284B1 | Selective lossless, lossy, or no compression of data based on address range, data type, and/or requesting agent | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 183 | Expired |
| US6208273A | System and method for performing scalable embedded parallel data compression | Electricity | 182 | Expired |
| US5664162A | Graphics accelerator with dual memory controllers | Physics | 181 | Expired |
| US7089391B2 | Managing a codec engine for memory compression/decompression operations using a data movement engine | Physics | 180 | Expired |
| US5706478A | Display list processor for operating in processor and coprocessor modes | Physics | 121 | Expired |
| US6885319B2 | System and method for generating optimally compressed data from a plurality of data compression/decompression engines implementing different data compression algorithms | Electricity | 93 | Expired |
| US5184320A | Cached random access memory device and system | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US6108014A | System and method for simultaneously displaying a plurality of video data objects having a different bit per pixel formats | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US6819271B2 | Parallel compression and decompression system and method having multiple parallel compression and decompression engines | Electricity | 88 | Expired |
| US5838334A | Memory and graphics controller which performs pointer-based display list video refresh operations | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US6067098A | Video/graphics controller which performs pointer-based display list video refresh operation | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US7129860B2 | System and method for performing scalable embedded parallel data decompression | Electricity | 77 | Expired |
| US6822589B1 | System and method for performing scalable embedded parallel data decompression | Electricity | 77 | Expired |
| US6518965B2 | Graphics system and method for rendering independent 2D and 3D objects using pointer based display list video refresh operations | Physics | 72 | Expired |
| US5995120A | Graphics system including a virtual frame buffer which stores video/pixel data in a plurality of memory areas | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US5909219A | Embedding a transparency enable bit as part of a resizing bit block transfer operation | Physics | 51 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.