Inventor · Four Oaks, NC, US

Van Hoa Lee

53Patents
17h-index
43Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 16, 1995 → Apr 27, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5642506A Method and apparatus for initializing a multiprocessor system Physics 82 Expired
US6665759B2 Method and apparatus to implement logical partitioning of PCI I/O slots Physics 66 Expired
US6178445A System and method for determining which processor is the master processor in a symmetric multi-processor environment Physics 64 Expired
US6223309A Method and apparatus for ECC logic test Physics 52 Expired
US7321979B2 Method and apparatus to change the operating frequency of system core logic to maximize system memory bandwidth Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US6886064B2 Computer system serialization control method involving unlocking global lock of one partition, after completion of machine check analysis regardless of state of other partition locks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US5867702A Method and apparatus for initializing a multiprocessor system Physics 35 Expired
US6567897B2 Virtualized NVRAM access methods to provide NVRAM CHRP regions for logical partitions through hypervisor system calls Physics 31 Expired
US6981079B2 Critical datapath error handling in a multiprocessor architecture Physics 27 Expired
US6219828A Method for using two copies of open firmware for self debug capability Physics 24 Expired
US6842857B2 Method and apparatus to concurrently boot multiple processors in a non-uniform-memory-access machine Physics 21 Expired
US6865688B2 Logical partition management apparatus and method for handling system reset interrupts Physics 20 Expired
US6304983A Checkpoint logging without checkpoint display device availability Physics 19 Expired
US9252275B2 Non-planar gate all-around device and method of fabrication thereof Electricity 18 Active
US7065761B2 Nonvolatile logical partition system data management Physics 18 Expired
US5953243A Memory module identification Physics 17 Expired
US6845470B2 Method and system to identify a memory corruption source within a multiprocessor system Physics 17 Expired
US6820207B2 Method for rebooting only a specific logical partition in a data processing system as per a request for reboot Physics 16 Expired
US6941436B2 Method and apparatus for managing memory blocks in a logical partitioned data processing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US6802063B1 64-bit open firmware implementation and associated api Physics 13 Expired
US7139909B2 Technique for system initial program load or boot-up of electronic devices and systems Physics 13 Expired
US5634130A Method and apparatus for spurious interrupt detection in a data processing system Physics 12 Expired
US6971002B2 Method, system, and product for booting a partition using one of multiple, different firmware images without rebooting other partitions Physics 12 Expired
US6834340B2 Mechanism to safely perform system firmware update in logically partitioned (LPAR) machines Physics 12 Expired
US5867658A Method and apparatus for implementing a stop state for a processor in a multiprocessor system Physics 12 Expired

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