Inventor · Houston, TX, US

William J. Walker

19Patents
15h-index
22Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 14, 1994 → Feb 25, 2005

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6098110A Network switch with a multiple bus structure and a bridge interface for transferring network data between different buses Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 118 Expired
US6260073A Network switch including a switch manager for periodically polling the network ports to determine their status and controlling the flow of data between ports Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 114 Expired
US6094434A Network switch with separate cut-through buffer Electricity 111 Expired
US5862338A Polling system that determines the status of network ports and that stores values indicative thereof Electricity 110 Expired
US6233242A Network switch with shared memory system Electricity 109 Expired
US6430626B1 Network switch with a multiple bus structure and a bridge interface for transferring network data between different buses Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 92 Expired
US6845472B2 Memory sub-system error cleansing Physics 81 Expired
US6201789A Network switch with dynamic backpressure per port Electricity 55 Expired
US6233246A Network switch with statistics read accesses Electricity 54 Expired
US5892926A Direct media independent interface connection system for network devices Electricity 49 Expired
US5555250A Data error detection and correction system Physics 47 Expired
US6222840A Method and system for performing concurrent read and write cycles in network switch Electricity 44 Expired
US6098109A Programmable arbitration system for determining priority of the ports of a network switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US6389480B1 Programmable arbitration system for determining priority of the ports of a network switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US6665733B1 Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth Electricity 31 Expired
US7333485B2 Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth Electricity 7 Expired
US7120758B2 Technique for improving processor performance Physics 2 Expired
US7055005B2 Methods and apparatus used to retrieve data from memory into a RAM controller before such data is requested Physics 2 Expired
US8078818B2 Method and system for migrating memory segments Physics 0 Active

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