William J. Watson
22Patents
18h-index
43Co-inventors
73Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 6, 1995 → Sep 27, 2000
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6950428B1 | System and method for configuring adaptive sets of links between routers in a system area network (SAN) | Electricity | 194 | Expired |
| US5751955A | Method of synchronizing a pair of central processor units for duplex, lock-step operation by copying data into a corresponding locations of another memory | Electricity | 159 | Expired |
| US6233702A | Self-checked, lock step processor pairs | Electricity | 151 | Expired |
| US5751932A | Fail-fast, fail-functional, fault-tolerant multiprocessor system | Electricity | 136 | Expired |
| US5574849A | Synchronized data transmission between elements of a processing system | Electricity | 121 | Expired |
| US6151689A | Detecting and isolating errors occurring in data communication in a multiple processor system | Physics | 110 | Expired |
| US5914953A | Network message routing using routing table information and supplemental enable information for deadlock prevention | Electricity | 96 | Expired |
| US6157967A | Method of data communication flow control in a data processing system using busy/ready commands | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US6545981B1 | System and method for implementing error detection and recovery in a system area network | Electricity | 87 | Expired |
| US5675807A | Interrupt message delivery identified by storage location of received interrupt data | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US5964835A | Storage access validation to data messages using partial storage address data indexed entries containing permissible address range validation for message source | Electricity | 78 | Expired |
| US5790776A | Apparatus for detecting divergence between a pair of duplexed, synchronized processor elements | Physics | 74 | Expired |
| US5710549A | Routing arbitration for shared resources | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US5675579A | Method for verifying responses to messages using a barrier message | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US5983269A | Method and apparatus for configuring routing paths of a network communicatively interconnecting a number of processing elements | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6249756A | Hybrid flow control | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US5861684A | Flexible implementation of distributed DC power | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6738344B1 | Link extenders with link alive propagation | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US5694121A | Latency reduction and routing arbitration for network message routers | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5581201A | Apparatus for unit control and presence detection | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US6631131B1 | Transpose table biased arbitration scheme | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US6870814B1 | Link extenders with error propagation and reporting | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.