Inventor
WILLIS THOMAS E
US43 patents
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INTEL CORP
40 patentsUS7194597B2Mar 20, 2007
Method and apparatus for sharing TLB entries
INTEL CORP99 citations97
US7038671B2May 2, 2006
Digitally driving pixels from pulse width modulated waveforms
INTEL CORP26 citations93
US7317464B2Jan 8, 2008
Pulse width modulated spatial light modulators with offset pulses
INTEL CORP38 citations92
US7019884B2Mar 28, 2006
Light modulator with bi-directional drive
INTEL CORP20 citations92
US6728858B2Apr 27, 2004
Method and apparatus including heuristic for sharing TLB entries
INTEL CORP19 citations92
US6995771B2Feb 7, 2006
Sparse refresh of display
INTEL CORP15 citations91
US6888551B2May 3, 2005
Sparse refresh of display
INTEL CORP25 citations91
US12192023B2Jan 7, 2025
Page-based remote memory access using system memory interface network device
INTEL CORP4 citations85
US7165164B2Jan 16, 2007
Method and apparatus including heuristic for sharing TLB entries
INTEL CORP14 citations84
US7038689B2May 2, 2006
Sparse refresh double-buffering
INTEL CORP15 citations84
US10048977B2Aug 14, 2018
Methods and apparatus for multi-stage VM virtual network function and virtual service function chain acceleration for NFV and needs-based hardware acceleration
INTEL CORP12 citations83
US7671865B2Mar 2, 2010
Refresh of display
INTEL CORP10 citations82
US12192024B2Jan 7, 2025
Shared memory
INTEL CORP1 citations75
US12381751B2Aug 5, 2025
Direct memory access (DMA) engine with network interface capabilities
INTEL CORP2 citations74
US7113195B2Sep 26, 2006
Generating pulse width modulated waveforms to digitally drive pixels
INTEL CORP9 citations74
US7151521B2Dec 19, 2006
Methods and apparatus for driving pixels in a microdisplay
INTEL CORP8 citations73
US7073044B2Jul 4, 2006
Method and apparatus for sharing TLB entries
INTEL CORP5 citations73
US12457276B2Oct 28, 2025
Technologies for managing a flexible host interface of a network interface controller
INTEL CORP0 citations72
US11843691B2Dec 12, 2023
Technologies for managing a flexible host interface of a network interface controller
INTEL CORP0 citations72
US7956857B2Jun 7, 2011
Light modulator having pixel memory decoupled from pixel display
INTEL CORP4 citations63
US7698607B2Apr 13, 2010
Repairing microdisplay frame buffers
INTEL CORP4 citations63
US7362316B2Apr 22, 2008
Light modulator having pixel memory decoupled from pixel display
INTEL CORP5 citations63
US7145581B2Dec 5, 2006
Selectively updating pulse width modulated waveforms while driving pixels
INTEL CORP6 citations63
US7126592B2Oct 24, 2006
Forming modulated signals that digitally drive display elements
INTEL CORP4 citations63
US6995756B2Feb 7, 2006
Methods and apparatus for driving pixels in a microdisplay
INTEL CORP3 citations63
US12132581B2Oct 29, 2024
Network interface controller with eviction cache
INTEL CORP0 citations62
US7136211B2Nov 14, 2006
Display device with non-linear ramp
INTEL CORP4 citations62
US7995068B2Aug 9, 2011
Display refresh
INTEL CORP3 citations61
US7348987B2Mar 25, 2008
Sparse refresh of display
INTEL CORP3 citations61
US10884968B2Jan 5, 2021
Technologies for flexible protocol acceleration
INTEL CORP0 citations59
US10783100B2Sep 22, 2020
Technologies for flexible I/O endpoint acceleration
INTEL CORP1 citations59
US12417121B2Sep 16, 2025
Memory pool management
INTEL CORP0 citations58
US10268464B2Apr 23, 2019
Technologies for network application programming with field-programmable gate arrays
INTEL CORP1 citations57
US7936364B2May 3, 2011
Maintaining balance in a display
INTEL CORP0 citations52
US7760214B2Jul 20, 2010
Inserting transitions into a waveform that drives a display
INTEL CORP0 citations52
US7471300B2Dec 30, 2008
Progressive data delivery to spatial light modulators
INTEL CORP0 citations52
US12445385B2Oct 14, 2025
Switch-based adaptive transformation for edge appliances
INTEL CORP0 citations51
US7505193B2Mar 17, 2009
Light modulator with bi-directional drive
INTEL CORP0 citations51
US12443537B2Oct 14, 2025
Method to minimize hot/cold page detection overhead on running workloads
INTEL CORP0 citations50
US12086446B2Sep 10, 2024
Memory and storage pool interfaces
INTEL CORP0 citations50