Inventor · Aspen, CO, US

William N. Joy

54Patents
32h-index
38Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 28, 1988 → Apr 5, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.