Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

William C. Van Loo

32Patents
20h-index
19Co-inventors
82Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 6, 1979 → Jun 5, 2001

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5655100A Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction execution in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 275 Expired
US5634068A Packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 119 Expired
US5905998A Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction processing in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 110 Expired
US4271468A Multiprocessor mechanism for handling channel interrupts Physics 104 Expired
US5644753A Fast, dual ported cache controller for data processors in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 103 Expired
US5581729A Parallelized coherent read and writeback transaction processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 92 Expired
US5684977A Writeback cancellation processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 88 Expired
US5692197A Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a computer network without sacrificing performance Physics 82 Expired
US6233615A System for maintaining strongly sequentially ordered packet flow in a ring network system with busy and failed nodes Electricity 82 Expired
US5247648A Maintaining data coherency between a central cache, an I/O cache and a memory Physics 75 Expired
US5657472A Memory transaction execution system and method for multiprocessor system having independent parallel transaction queues associated with each processor Physics 74 Expired
US5263142A Input/output cache with mapped pages allocated for caching direct (virtual) memory access input/output data based on type of I/O devices Physics 65 Expired
US5892957A Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in packet-switched microprocessor-based computer system Physics 47 Expired
US5689713A Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in a packet-switched computer system Physics 40 Expired
US6101565A System for multisized bus coupling in a packet-switched computer system Physics 30 Expired
US5854906A Method and apparatus for fast-forwarding slave request in a packet-switched computer system Physics 25 Expired
US5710891A Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system Physics 25 Expired
US5919265A Source synchronization data transfers without resynchronization penalty Electricity 23 Expired
US6065052A System for maintaining strongly sequentially ordered packet flow in a ring network system with busy and failed nodes Electricity 21 Expired
US5161162A Method and apparatus for system bus testability through loopback Physics 20 Expired
US6463472B1 System for maintaining strongly sequentially ordered packet flow in a ring network system with busy and failed nodes Electricity 19 Expired
US5864677A System for preserving sequential ordering and supporting nonidempotent commands in a ring network with busy nodes Electricity 17 Expired
US5852718A Method and apparatus for hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched flow control in a computer system Physics 17 Expired
US5907485A Method and apparatus for flow control in packet-switched computer system Physics 17 Expired
US6381664B1 System for multisized bus coupling in a packet-switched computer system Physics 13 Expired

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