Inventor · Northborough, MA, US

Thomas D. Bissett

33Patents
26h-index
37Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 4, 1987 → May 5, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5588112A DMA controller for memory scrubbing Physics 131 Expired
US5255367A Fault tolerant, synchronized twin computer system with error checking of I/O communication Physics 96 Expired
US5291494A Method of handling errors in software Physics 83 Expired
US4907228A Dual-rail processor with error checking at single rail interfaces Physics 83 Expired
US5099485A Fault tolerant computer systems with fault isolation and repair Physics 83 Expired
US5896523A Loosely-coupled, synchronized execution Physics 80 Expired
US5600784A Fault resilient/fault tolerant computing Physics 67 Expired
US5153881A Method of handling errors in software Physics 55 Expired
US5185877A Protocol for transfer of DMA data Physics 55 Expired
US5005174A Dual zone, fault tolerant computer system with error checking in I/O writes Physics 54 Expired
US5347559A Apparatus and method of data transfer between systems using different clocks Electricity 53 Expired
US5068780A Method and apparatus for controlling initiation of bootstrap loading of an operating system in a computer system having first and second discrete computing zones Physics 50 Expired
US5249187A Dual rail processors with error checking on I/O reads Physics 50 Expired
US6279119A Fault resilient/fault tolerant computing Physics 49 Expired
US5065312A Method of converting unique data to system data Physics 48 Expired
US5068851A Apparatus and method for documenting faults in computing modules Physics 46 Expired
US4916704A Interface of non-fault tolerant components to fault tolerant system Physics 45 Expired
US8812907B1 Fault tolerant computing systems using checkpoints Physics 41 Active
US5790397A Fault resilient/fault tolerant computing Physics 39 Expired
US5956474A Fault resilient/fault tolerant computing Physics 38 Expired
US6473869B2 Fault resilient/fault tolerant computing Physics 37 Expired
US5339408A Method and apparatus for reducing checking costs in fault tolerant processors Electricity 37 Expired
US5048022A Memory device with transfer of ECC signals on time division multiplexed bidirectional lines Physics 37 Expired
US5615403A Method for executing I/O request by I/O processor after receiving trapped memory address directed to I/O device from all processors concurrently executing same program Physics 36 Expired
US5251227A Targeted resets in a data processor including a trace memory to store transactions Physics 35 Expired

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