Inventor · Westborough, MA, US

Thomas F. Hummel

20Patents
6h-index
25Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 28, 2001 → Mar 20, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7895431B2 Packet queuing, scheduling and ordering Electricity 60 Active
US7535907B2 TCP engine Electricity 56 Active
US6691207B2 Method and apparatus for implementing loop compression in a program counter trace Physics 18 Expired
US9219560B2 Multi-protocol SerDes PHY apparatus Electricity 15 Active
US9379992B2 Method and an apparatus for virtualization of a quality-of-service Electricity 7 Active
US9870328B2 Managing buffered communication between cores Physics 6 Active
US8634509B2 Synchronized clock phase interpolator Electricity 6 Active
US9501425B2 Translation lookaside buffer management Physics 5 Active
US7031869B2 Method and apparatus for managing timestamps when storing data Physics 4 Expired
US11036643B1 Mid-level instruction cache Physics 3 Active
US9665505B2 Managing buffered communication between sockets Physics 3 Active
US11119929B2 Low latency inter-chip communication mechanism in multi-chip processing system Physics 2 Active
US9065781B2 Messaging with flexible transmit ordering Electricity 1 Active
US9264385B2 Messaging with flexible transmit ordering Electricity 1 Active
US11327759B2 Managing low-level instructions and core interactions in multi-core processors Physics 0 Active
US11379379B1 Differential cache block sizing for computing systems Physics 0 Active
US12019552B2 Low latency inter-chip communication mechanism in a multi-chip processing system Physics 0 Active
US11379368B1 External way allocation circuitry for processor cores Physics 0 Active
US9596193B2 Messaging with flexible transmit ordering Electricity 0 Active
US11620223B2 Low latency inter-chip communication mechanism in a multi-chip processing system Physics 0 Active

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