Inventor · Ocala, FL, US

William E. Earnshaw

22Patents
13h-index
33Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 17, 1988 → Jan 6, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8295301B2 Managing coexistence among signaling protocols on a shared medium Electricity 226 Active
US7352770B1 Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals Electricity 105 Expired
US6907044B1 Method and protocol to support contention-free intervals and QoS in a CSMA network Electricity 72 Expired
US6034988A Spread spectrum apparatus and method for network RF data communications having extended communication channels Electricity 68 Expired
US5050072A Semaphore memory to reduce common bus contention to global memory with localized semaphores in a multiprocessor system Physics 57 Expired
US4924380A Dual rotating priority arbitration method for a multiprocessor memory bus Physics 56 Expired
US6909723B1 Segment bursting with priority pre-emption and reduced latency Electricity 46 Expired
US7623542B2 Contention-free access intervals on a CSMA network Electricity 41 Expired
US7298691B1 Method and protocol to adapt each unique connection in a multi-node network to a maximum data rate Electricity 37 Expired
US4942575A Error connection device for parity protected memory systems Physics 17 Expired
US7715425B2 Channel adaptation synchronized to periodically varying channel Electricity 16 Active
US7916746B2 Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals Electricity 14 Active
US8090857B2 Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks Electricity 13 Expired
US8913629B2 Managing coexistence on a shared power line medium Electricity 13 Active
US8520696B1 Terminal selection diversity for powerline communications Electricity 7 Active
US7120847B2 Powerline network flood control restriction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US7826466B2 Communication buffer scheme optimized for VoIP, QoS and data networking over a power line Electricity 4 Expired
US9013989B2 Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks Electricity 3 Active
US8149703B2 Powerline network bridging congestion control Electricity 2 Expired
US8654635B2 Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks Electricity 2 Active
US8964819B2 Asymmetric mixed-mode powerline communication transceiver Electricity 1 Active
US8520683B2 Managing communications over a shared medium Electricity 1 Active

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