Inventor · San Mateo, CA, US

Walter E. Croft

21Patents
11h-index
5Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 1, 1998 → Jun 11, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6175514A Content addressable memory device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 461 Expired
US6446188B1 Caching dynamically allocated objects Physics 113 Expired
US7133400B1 System and method for filtering data Electricity 82 Expired
US5999435A Content addressable memory device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Expired
US6470436B1 Eliminating memory fragmentation and garbage collection from the process of managing dynamically allocated memory Physics 72 Expired
US7058789B2 System and method for packet storage and retrieval Electricity 57 Expired
US6362993B1 Content addressable memory device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US6748484B1 Match resolution circuit for an associative memory Physics 21 Expired
US7333484B2 Services processor having a packet editing unit Electricity 17 Expired
US7307986B2 State record processing Electricity 15 Expired
US6378042B1 Caching associative memory Physics 14 Expired
US7333502B2 Services processor having a queue operations unit and an output scheduler Electricity 3 Expired
US6674308B2 Low power wired OR Electricity 2 Expired
US11108591B2 Transporting fibre channel over ethernet Electricity 2 Active
US7333490B2 Table driven programming system for a services processor Electricity 2 Expired
US7013367B2 Caching associative memory using non-overlapping data Physics 1 Expired
US9610997B1 Kneel push cycle apparatus Performing Operations; Transporting 1 Active
US10683054B2 Bicycle frame attachable kneeling pad Performing Operations; Transporting 0 Active
US11310077B2 Transporting fibre channel over ethernet Electricity 0 Active
US6721842B2 Boundary addressable memory Electricity 0 Expired
US11303473B2 Transporting fibre channel over ethernet Electricity 0 Active

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