Inventor · Hillsborough, NC, US

William E. Atherton

21Patents
8h-index
28Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 30, 2001 → Oct 6, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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