Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Thomas M. Wicki

28Patents
15h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 6, 1994 → Feb 10, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5892766A Method and apparatus for coordinating access to an output of a routing device in a packet switching network Electricity 126 Expired
US5838684A Low latency, high clock frequency plesioasynchronous packet-based crossbar switching chip system and method Electricity 98 Expired
US5959995A Asynchronous packet switching Electricity 94 Expired
US6119205A Speculative cache line write backs to avoid hotspots Physics 84 Expired
US6393023B1 System and method for acknowledging receipt of messages within a packet based communication network Electricity 69 Expired
US5509038A Multi-path data synchronizer system and method Electricity 48 Expired
US5740346A System and method for dynamic network topology exploration Electricity 45 Expired
US6912628B2 N-way set-associative external cache with standard DDR memory devices Physics 45 Expired
US6122709A Cache with reduced tag information storage Physics 39 Expired
US6212602A Cache tag caching Physics 35 Expired
US6003064A System and method for controlling data transmission between network elements Electricity 28 Expired
US5987629A Interconnect fault detection and localization method and apparatus Electricity 25 Expired
US5931967A Method and apparatus for detection of errors in multiple-word communications Electricity 22 Expired
US6832294B2 Interleaved n-way set-associative external cache Physics 16 Expired
US5768300A Interconnect fault detection and localization method and apparatus Electricity 15 Expired
US6269426A Method for operating a non-blocking hierarchical cache throttle Physics 13 Expired
US6154815A Non-blocking hierarchical cache throttle Physics 11 Expired
US6684299B2 Method for operating a non-blocking hierarchical cache throttle Physics 7 Expired
US7523342B1 Data and control integrity for transactions in a computer system Electricity 7 Active
US7366843B2 Computer system implementing synchronized broadcast using timestamps Physics 5 Expired
US7609092B2 Automatic phase-detection circuit for clocks with known ratios Physics 3 Active
US9921899B2 Monitoring serial link errors Electricity 1 Active
US9285865B2 Dynamic link scaling based on bandwidth utilization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US10387314B2 Reducing cache coherence directory bandwidth by aggregating victimization requests Physics 0 Active
US11507414B2 Circuit for fast interrupt handling Physics 0 Active

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