William E. Woods
42Patents
16h-index
34Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 30, 1975 → Sep 6, 1995
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US3993981A | Apparatus for processing data transfer requests in a data processing system | Physics | 89 | Expired |
| US4206503A | Multiple length address formation in a microprogrammed data processing system | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5678032A | Method of optimizing the execution of program instuctions by an emulator using a plurality of execution units | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US4079451A | Word, byte and bit indexed addressing in a data processing system | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US4074353A | Trap mechanism for a data processing system | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5983012A | Executing programs of a first system on a second system | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US4320455A | Queue structure for a data processing system | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US4099255A | Interrupt apparatus for enabling interrupt service in response to time out conditions | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US4363095A | Hit/miss logic for a cache memory | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US4020471A | Interrupt scan and processing system for a data processing system | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5515525A | Emulating the memory functions of a first system on a second system | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US5375248A | Method for organizing state machine by selectively grouping status signals as inputs and classifying commands to be executed into performance sensitive and nonsensitive categories | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5442866A | Surveying rule assembly, and methods of constructing and utilizing same | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US4799181A | BCD arithmetic using binary arithmetic and logical operations | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US3984820A | Apparatus for changing the interrupt level of a process executing in a data processing system | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US4047247A | Address formation in a microprogrammed data processing system | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US4432050A | Data processing system write protection mechanism | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US5280595A | State machine for executing commands within a minimum number of cycles by accomodating unforseen time dependency according to status signals received from different functional sections | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US4225921A | Transfer control technique between two units included in a data processing system | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US4455606A | Logic control system for efficient memory to CPU transfers | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US4604685A | Two stage selection based on time of arrival and predetermined priority in a bus priority resolver | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US5136500A | Multiple shared memory arrangement wherein multiple processors individually and concurrently access any one of plural memories | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US4491908A | Microprogrammed control of extended integer and commercial instruction processor instructions through use of a data type field in a central processor unit | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US4837738A | Address boundary detector | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US4451883A | Bus sourcing and shifter control of a central processing unit | Physics | 11 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.