William G. Holland
57Patents
16h-index
80Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: May 22, 1995 → Oct 19, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.