Inventor · Cary, NC, US

William G. Holland

57Patents
16h-index
80Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: May 22, 1995 → Oct 19, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5608876A Add-in board with enable-disable expansion ROM for PCI bus computers Physics 150 Expired
US5737524A Add-in board with programmable configuration registers for use in PCI bus computers Physics 38 Expired
US6049842A Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/output devices Physics 37 Expired
US6334162A Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/out devices having a device driver generating a descriptor queue and monitoring a status queue Physics 34 Expired
US5905913A System for collecting a specified number of peripheral interrupts and transferring the interrupts as a group to the processor Physics 33 Expired
US7937518B2 Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters Physics 30 Active
US7496045B2 Broadcast of shared I/O fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to all affected root nodes Electricity 26 Active
US8547825B2 Switch fabric management Electricity 25 Active
US7493503B2 Programmable throttling in blade/chassis power management Physics 24 Active
US7907604B2 Creation and management of routing table for PCI bus address based routing with integrated DID Electricity 23 Active
US7363404B2 Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies Physics 19 Expired
US7356638B2 Using out-of-band signaling to provide communication between storage controllers in a computer storage system Electricity 18 Expired
US7484029B2 Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters Physics 18 Active
US7474623B2 Method of routing I/O adapter error messages in a multi-host environment Physics 17 Active
US7295446B2 Midplane connector for blades Electricity 16 Expired
US6490281B1 Apparatus including a scalable multiprotocol communications adapter using modular components and a method for transmitting data frames via scalable multiprotocol communication adapters Electricity 16 Expired
US7508664B2 Mechanical assembly to support orthogonal airflow devices in a normal airflow slot of a server chassis Electricity 14 Active
US7571273B2 Bus/device/function translation within and routing of communications packets in a PCI switched-fabric in a multi-host environment utilizing multiple root switches Physics 13 Active
US6073181A Multi-buffer error detection for an open data-link interface LAN adapter Electricity 11 Expired
US6163820A Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/output devices Physics 10 Expired
US7584325B2 Apparatus, system, and method for providing a RAID storage system in a processor blade enclosure Physics 10 Active
US6272564A Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/output devices Physics 10 Expired
US7395367B2 Method using a master node to control I/O fabric configuration in a multi-host environment Physics 9 Expired
US6338102B1 Efficient data transfer mechanism for input/output devices having a device driver generating a descriptor queue and monitoring a status queue Physics 9 Expired
US7599397B2 Obtaining multiple port addresses by a fibre channel switch from a network fabric Electricity 8 Active

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