William N. Joy
54Patents
32h-index
38Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 28, 1988 → Apr 5, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6341347B1 | Thread switch logic in a multiple-thread processor | Physics | 234 | Expired |
| US7167920B2 | Peer-to-peer communication pipes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 221 | Expired |
| US7065579B2 | System using peer discovery and peer membership protocols for accessing peer-to-peer platform resources on a network | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 207 | Expired |
| US7206841B2 | Rendezvous for locating peer-to-peer resources | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 191 | Expired |
| US7574523B2 | Relay peers for extending peer availability in a peer-to-peer networking environment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 163 | Active |
| US7340500B2 | Providing peer groups in a peer-to-peer environment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 121 | Expired |
| US6014723A | Processor with accelerated array access bounds checking | Physics | 119 | Expired |
| US6507862B1 | Switching method in a multi-threaded processor | Physics | 114 | Expired |
| US7136927B2 | Peer-to-peer resource resolution | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 113 | Expired |
| US7533172B2 | Advertisements for peer-to-peer computing resources | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 83 | Expired |
| US7401153B2 | Peer-to-peer computing architecture | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 82 | Expired |
| US6021469A | Hardware virtual machine instruction processor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 80 | Expired |
| US7401152B2 | Resource identifiers for a peer-to-peer environment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 79 | Expired |
| US6694347B2 | Switching method in a multi-threaded processor | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US6351808B1 | Vertically and horizontally threaded processor with multidimensional storage for storing thread data | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US5761513A | System and method for exception handling in dynamically linked programs | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US7849140B2 | Peer-to-peer email messaging | Electricity | 69 | Active |
| US8359397B2 | Reliable peer-to-peer connections | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 67 | Active |
| US5701470A | System and method for space efficient object locking using a data subarray and pointers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 56 | Expired |
| US6801997B2 | Multiple-thread processor with single-thread interface shared among threads | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US6205543A | Efficient handling of a large register file for context switching | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US8160077B2 | Peer-to-peer communication pipes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 53 | Active |
| US8176189B2 | Peer-to-peer network computing platform | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Active |
| US6938147B1 | Processor with multiple-thread, vertically-threaded pipeline | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US5765157A | Computer system and method for executing threads of execution with reduced run-time memory space requirements | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.