William E. Atherton
21Patents
8h-index
28Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 30, 2001 → Oct 6, 2015
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7480757B2 | Method for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors | Physics | 37 | Active |
| US7356442B1 | End of life prediction of flash memory | Physics | 25 | Active |
| US8103993B2 | Structure for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI express connectors | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US7000087B2 | Programmatically pre-selecting specific physical memory blocks to allocate to an executing application | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7809869B2 | Throttling a point-to-point, serial input/output expansion subsystem within a computing system | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US7657688B2 | Dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI express connectors | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US6961794B2 | System and method for analyzing and optimizing computer system performance utilizing observed time performance measures | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7284084B2 | ROM scan memory expander | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US8108180B2 | End of life prediction of flash memory | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US6941450B2 | System and method for identifying one or more optimum configurations of a data processing system | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
| US7661044B2 | Method, apparatus and program product to concurrently detect, repair, verify and isolate memory failures | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8132055B2 | Operating system-firmware interface update recovery | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8140730B2 | System reconfiguration of expansion cards | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US9262284B2 | Single channel memory mirror | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US10049074B2 | PCI-E real-time flow control optimization | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8898416B2 | Storage allocation management in switches utilizing flow control | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8108179B2 | End of life prediction of flash memory | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8924644B2 | Extending cache in a multi-processor computer | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7487409B2 | Apparatus, system, and method for accessing system information | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10270765B2 | Enabling application functions responsive to biometric input from more than one person | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US7496708B2 | Boot read-only memory (ROM) configuration optimization | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.