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William J. Walker — 19 Patents

CCCompaq Computer: 13 patents #52 of 1,604Top 4%
HP: 6 patents #3,252 of 16,619Top 20%
Houston, TX: #1,070 of 21,073 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #7,372 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
William J. Walker has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Compaq Computer. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2011. William J. Walker ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list William J. Walker in Houston, TX, US.

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Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8078818 Method and system for migrating memory segments Paras A. Shah, James Yu, Kenneth A. Jansen, Vasileios Balabanos, Andrew D. Olsen +1 more 2011-12-13 $21,692,000
7333485 Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth Michael Lee Witkowski, Dale J. Mayer, Kirk D. Roller, Patricia E. Hareski, Gary B. Kotzur 2008-02-19 $21,727,000
7120758 Technique for improving processor performance Phillip M. Jones, Robert A. Lester, Jens K. Ramsey, John E. Larson, James R. Andre +1 more 2006-10-10 $18,158,000
7055005 Methods and apparatus used to retrieve data from memory into a RAM controller before such data is requested Andy Olsen 2006-05-30 $10,666,000
6845472 Memory sub-system error cleansing John M. MacLaren 2005-01-18 $11,505,000
6665733 Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth Michael Lee Witkowski, Dale J. Mayer, Kirk D. Roller, Patricia E. Hareski, Gary B. Kotzur 2003-12-16 $10,315,000
6430626 Network switch with a multiple bus structure and a bridge interface for transferring network data between different buses Michael Lee Witkowski, Gregory T. Chandler, Mohammad Khan, Gary B. Kotzur, Dale J. Mayer 2002-08-06
6389480 Programmable arbitration system for determining priority of the ports of a network switch Gary B. Kotzur, Patricia E. Hareski, Michael Lee Witkowski, Dale J. Mayer 2002-05-14
6260073 Network switch including a switch manager for periodically polling the network ports to determine their status and controlling the flow of data between ports Gary B. Kotzur, Patricia E. Hareski, Dale J. Mayer, Michael Lee Witkowski 2001-07-10 $36,466,000
6233242 Network switch with shared memory system Dale J. Mayer, Roger Richter, Michael Lee Witkowski, Gary B. Kotzur, Patricia E. Hareski 2001-05-15 $43,713,000
6233246 Network switch with statistics read accesses Patricia E. Hareski, Gary B. Kotzur, Dale J. Mayer, Michael Lee Witkowski 2001-05-15 $43,713,000
6222840 Method and system for performing concurrent read and write cycles in network switch Gary B. Kotzur, Patricia E. Hareski, Michael Lee Witkowski, Dale J. Mayer 2001-04-24 $47,835,000
6201789 Network switch with dynamic backpressure per port Michael Lee Witkowski, Gary B. Kotzur, Dale J. Mayer, Patricia E. Hareski 2001-03-13 $50,290,000
6098109 Programmable arbitration system for determining priority of the ports of a network switch Gary B. Kotzur, Patricia E. Hareski, Michael Lee Witkowski, Dale J. Mayer 2000-08-01 $44,998,000
6098110 Network switch with a multiple bus structure and a bridge interface for transferring network data between different buses Michael Lee Witkowski, Gregory T. Chandler, Mohammad Khan, Gary B. Kotzur, Dale J. Mayer 2000-08-01 $44,998,000
6094434 Network switch with separate cut-through buffer Gary B. Kotzur, Dale J. Mayer, Michael Lee Witkowski, Patricia E. Hareski 2000-07-25 $150,864,000
5892926 Direct media independent interface connection system for network devices Michael Lee Witkowski, Mohammad Khan, Gary B. Kotzur, Dale J. Mayer 1999-04-06 $88,307,000
5862338 Polling system that determines the status of network ports and that stores values indicative thereof Gary B. Kotzur, Michael Lee Witkowski, Patricia E. Hareski, Dale J. Mayer 1999-01-19 $221,474,000
5555250 Data error detection and correction system Alan L. Goodrum, Dale J. Mayer 1996-09-10 $78,708,000