Inventor · Cary, NC, US

Thomas M. Brey

41Patents
9h-index
69Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 17, 1991 → Dec 7, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8006108B2 Dynamic selection of group and device power limits Physics 87 Active
US7260487B2 Histogram difference method and system for power/performance measurement and management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 74 Expired
US5274646A Excessive error correction control Physics 52 Expired
US7272517B1 Method and system for providing performance estimations for a specified power budget Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Expired
US7437447B2 Method and system for authenticating a requestor without providing a key Electricity 27 Active
US7457976B2 Power management using spare capacity of redundant power supply in blade environment Physics 19 Active
US7463950B1 Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems Electricity 13 Active
US7917792B2 System for modulating signals over power lines to understand the power distribution tree Physics 12 Active
US7933739B2 Automated analysis of datacenter layout using temperature sensor positions Physics 11 Active
US7307837B2 Method and apparatus for enforcing of power control in a blade center chassis Electricity 8 Expired
US7792597B2 Control systems and method using a shared component actuator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7451219B2 Determining server resources accessible to client nodes using information received at the server via a communications medium Physics 6 Active
US7925911B2 Managing computer power among a plurality of computers Physics 6 Active
US7720907B2 Supervisor partitioning of client resources Physics 5 Active
US7886027B2 Methods and arrangements for activating IP configurations Electricity 5 Active
US8103884B2 Managing power consumption of a computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7710718B2 Method and apparatus for enforcing of power control in a blade center chassis Electricity 5 Active
US7484116B2 Apparatus, system, and method for accessing redundant data Physics 5 Active
US7676301B2 Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems Electricity 5 Active
US7460978B1 Method, system, and computer program product for rack position determination using acoustics Physics 5 Active
US8458499B2 Method for reducing power state in a computer system out-of-band when a request for reducing the power state is not immediately serviceable in band according to a priority of the request Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US9021076B2 Managing inventory data for components of a server system Physics 4 Active
US7882562B2 Apparatus, system, and method for deploying iSCSI parameters to a diskless computing device Physics 3 Active
US8028183B2 Power cap lower bound exploration in a server environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9021097B2 Unified cloud computing infrastructure to manage and deploy physical and virtual environments Electricity 2 Active

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