RH

Richard Gerard Hofmann

IBM: 47 patents #1,870 of 70,183Top 3%
QU Qualcomm: 37 patents #631 of 12,104Top 6%
IN Intel: 1 patents #18,218 of 30,777Top 60%
📍 Cary, NC: #41 of 3,681 inventorsTop 2%
🗺 North Carolina: #237 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,582 of 4,157,543Top 1%
84
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 84 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7035958 Re-ordering a first request within a FIFO request queue to a different queue position when the first request receives a retry response from the target Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Barry Joe Wolford 2006-04-25
6993619 Single request data transfer regardless of size and alignment Victor Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Barry Joe Wolford 2006-01-31
6985972 Dynamic cache coherency snooper presence with variable snoop latency James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Jaya Prakash Subramaniam Ganasan, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more 2006-01-10
6976132 Reducing latency of a snoop tenure James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Jaya Prakash Subramaniam Ganasan, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more 2005-12-13
6973520 System and method for providing improved bus utilization via target directed completion Bernard C. Drerup, Jaya Prakash Subramaniam Ganasan, Richard Nicholas Iachetta, Jr., Barry Joe Wolford 2005-12-06
6970816 Method and system for efficiently generating parameterized bus transactions Paul David Bryan, Peter Dean LaFauci, William Lee, Rhonda Gurganious Mitchell, Timothy P. Oke 2005-11-29
6970962 Transfer request pipeline throttling James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Jaya Prakash Subramaniam Ganasan, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more 2005-11-29
6907502 Method for moving snoop pushes to the front of a request queue Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Jaya Prakash Subramaniam Ganasan, Thomas Andrew Sartorius +2 more 2005-06-14
6857029 Scalable on-chip bus performance monitoring synchronization mechanism and method of use Jaya Prakash Subramaniam Ganasan, Adger Harvin, Perry Willmann Remaklus, Jr. 2005-02-15
6834378 System on a chip bus with automatic pipeline stage insertion for timing closure Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Barry Joe Wolford 2004-12-21
6826656 Reducing power in a snooping cache based multiprocessor environment Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Barry Joe Wolford 2004-11-30
6823411 N-way psuedo cross-bar having an arbitration feature using discrete processor local busses Barry Joe Wolford 2004-11-23
6807608 Multiprocessor environment supporting variable-sized coherency transactions Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Barry Joe Wolford 2004-10-19
6772254 Multi-master computer system with overlapped read and write operations and scalable address pipelining Jason Michael Hopp, Peter Dean LaFauci, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2004-08-03
6633994 Method and system for optimizing data transfers between devices interconnected by buses operating at different clocking speeds Jason Michael Hopp, Rhonda Gurganious Mitchell, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2003-10-14
6587905 Dynamic data bus allocation Anthony Correale, Jr., Peter Dean LaFauci, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2003-07-01
6513089 Dual burst latency timers for overlapped read and write data transfers Peter Dean LaFauci, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2003-01-28
6504854 Multiple frequency communications Mark Michael Schaffer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2003-01-07
6430641 Methods, arbiters, and computer program products that can improve the performance of a pipelined dual bus data processing system Peter Dean LaFauci, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2002-08-06
6055584 Processor local bus posted DMA FlyBy burst transfers Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Edward Hammond Green, III, David Otero, Mark Michael Schaffer, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2000-04-25
6047336 Speculative direct memory access transfer between slave devices and memory Edward Hammond Green, III, Mark Michael Schaffer, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2000-04-04
6032238 Overlapped DMA line transfers Edward Hammond Green, III, Mark Michael Schaffer, Dennis Charles Wilkerson 2000-02-29
5642489 Bridge between two buses of a computer system with a direct memory access controller with accessible registers to support power management Patrick M. Bland, Dennis Moeller, Lance M. Venarchick 1997-06-24
5623697 Bridge between two buses of a computer system with a direct memory access controller having a high address extension and a high count extension Patrick M. Bland, Daniel R. Cronin, III, Dennis Moeller, Lance M. Venarchick 1997-04-22
5621902 Computer system having a bridge between two buses with a direct memory access controller and an alternative memory access controller Moises Cases, Lance M. Venarchick 1997-04-15