Inventor · Pflugerville, TX, US

William P. Bunton

32Patents
20h-index
46Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 8, 1990 → Apr 13, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7010607B1 Method for training a communication link between ports to correct for errors Physics 403 Expired
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
US6151689A Detecting and isolating errors occurring in data communication in a multiple processor system Physics 110 Expired
US6157967A Method of data communication flow control in a data processing system using busy/ready commands Physics 90 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
US6961347B1 High-speed interconnection link having automated lane reordering Electricity 76 Expired
US5790776A Apparatus for detecting divergence between a pair of duplexed, synchronized processor elements Physics 74 Expired
US6985502B2 Time-division multiplexed link for use in a service area network Electricity 72 Expired
US6690757B1 High-speed interconnection adapter having automated lane de-skew Electricity 70 Expired
US5436827A Control interface for customer replaceable fan unit Physics 63 Expired
US5675579A Method for verifying responses to messages using a barrier message Electricity 46 Expired
US6948092B2 System recovery from errors for processor and associated components Physics 41 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
US5203004A Multi-board system having electronic keying and preventing power to improperly connected plug-in board with improperly configured diode connections Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US5293636A Module for insertion into a multi-module system having electronic keying for preventing power to improperly connected modules with improperly configured diode connections Electricity 10 Expired
US7197100B2 High-speed interconnection adapter having automated lane de-skew Electricity 9 Expired
US6374282B1 Method and apparatus for tracking multi-threaded system area network (SAN) traffic Electricity 8 Expired
US5548463A System for switching power and scrubbing power mixing devices for faults Physics 8 Expired
US6865231B1 High-speed interconnection adapter having automated crossed differential pair correction Electricity 8 Expired

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