Inventor · Lexington, SC, US

Vernon K. Boland

11Patents
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11Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 24, 1990 → Oct 27, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7167842B1 Architecture and method for operational privacy in business services Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 295 Expired
US5872972A Method for load balancing a per processor affinity scheduler wherein processes are strictly affinitized to processors and the migration of a process from an affinitized processor to another available processor is limited Physics 128 Expired
US6269390A Affinity scheduling of data within multi-processor computer systems Physics 114 Expired
US6947987B2 Method and apparatus for allocating network resources and changing the allocation based on dynamic workload changes Physics 76 Expired
US6487622B1 Quorum arbitrator for a high availability system Electricity 74 Expired
US5826079A Method for improving the execution efficiency of frequently communicating processes utilizing affinity process scheduling by identifying and assigning the frequently communicating processes to the same processor Physics 51 Expired
US5249283A Cache coherency method and apparatus for a multiple path interconnection network Physics 32 Expired
US5860141A Method and apparatus for enabling physical memory larger than corresponding virtual memory Physics 17 Expired
US6209062A Method for holding cache pages that are not invalidated within normal time duration for a second access or that are likely to be accessed again soon Physics 12 Expired
US9448834B2 Automated testing of physical servers using a virtual machine Physics 3 Active
US9454439B2 Disaster recovery validation Physics 3 Active

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