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Charles P. Thacker
Also filed as: THACKER CHARLES · THACKER CHARLES P · THACKER CHARLES PATRICK
32 granted patents·3 pending applications·2,082 citations·filing 1975–2012
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35 records- 0197US5088091AHigh-speed mesh connected local area networkDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1989·Granted Feb 11, 1992·262 cites·32 claims
- 0297US4063220AMultipoint data communication system with collision detectionXEROX CORP·Filed 1975·Granted Dec 13, 1977·423 cites·22 claims
- 0396US7082495B2Method and apparatus to reduce power consumption and improve read/write performance of hard disk drives using non-volatile memoryMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 25, 2006·193 cites·54 claims
- 0496US6788815B2System and method for accepting disparate types of user inputMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 7, 2004·144 cites·18 claims
- 0589US7120872B2Organizing, editing, and rendering digital inkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 10, 2006·42 cites·8 claims
- 0687US7319454B2Two-button mouse input using a stylusMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 15, 2008·54 cites·30 claims
- 0786US4103331AData processing display systemXEROX CORP·Filed 1977·Granted Jul 25, 1978·38 cites·7 claims
- 0884US5267235AMethod and apparatus for resource arbitrationDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 30, 1993·121 cites·26 claims
- 0983US6903730B2In-air gestures for electromagnetic coordinate digitizersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 7, 2005·40 cites·39 claims
- 1083US4276647AHigh speed Hamming code circuit and method for the correction of error burstsXEROX CORP·Filed 1979·Granted Jun 30, 1981·30 cites·10 claims
- 1181US6957233B1Method and apparatus for capturing and rendering annotations for non-modifiable electronic contentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 18, 2005·96 cites·22 claims
- 1281US5313501AMethod and apparatus for deskewing digital dataDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1992·Granted May 17, 1994·103 cites·4 claims
- 1381US5193197AApparatus and method for distributed dynamic priority arbitration for access to a shared resourceDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Mar 9, 1993·92 cites·43 claims
- 1480US5179558ARouting apparatus and method for high-speed mesh connected local area networkDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1991·Granted Jan 12, 1993·86 cites·12 claims
- 1580US5136700AApparatus and method for reducing interference in two-level cache memoriesDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1989·Granted Aug 4, 1992·67 cites·10 claims
- 1679US7266769B2Organizing, editing, and rendering digital inkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 4, 2007·18 cites·20 claims
- 1776US7265303B2Electromagnetic digitizer sensor arrayMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 4, 2007·21 cites·15 claims
- 1875US4148098AData transfer system with disk command verification apparatusXEROX CORP·Filed 1977·Granted Apr 3, 1979·43 cites·10 claims
- 1972US7987365B2Subscription-based computing implemented in hardware of computing deviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 26, 2011·5 cites·20 claims
- 2070US7322008B2Organizing, editing, and rendering digital inkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jan 22, 2008·10 cites·17 claims
- 2170US7028258B1Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit in a documentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 11, 2006·50 cites·30 claims
- 2268US5276851AAutomatic writeback and storage limit in a high-performance frame buffer and cache memory systemDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Jan 4, 1994·51 cites·23 claims
- 2366US7418137B2System and method for accepting disparate types of user inputMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 26, 2008·11 cites·14 claims
- 2465US8933913B2Electromagnetic 3D stylusNOWATZYK ANDREAS·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 13, 2015·2 cites·17 claims
- 2564US5301283ADynamic arbitration for system bus control in multiprocessor data processing systemDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Apr 5, 1994·43 cites·18 claims
- 2658US4103330ATask handling in a data processing apparatusXEROX CORP·Filed 1977·Granted Jul 25, 1978·19 cites·11 claims
- 2753US7571265B2Deterring theft and unauthorized use of electronic devices through the use of counters and private codeMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 4, 2009·3 cites·18 claims
- 2848US2006150096A1Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit a documentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 2948US2008170789A1Organizing, Editing, and Rendering Digital InkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3047US8619065B2Universal stylus deviceNOWATZYK ANDREAS·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 31, 2013·0 cites·17 claims
- 3144US8872800B2Optical tablet stylus and indoor navigation systemNOWATZYK ANDREAS G·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 28, 2014·0 cites·16 claims
- 3244US5835134ACalibration and merging unit for video adaptersDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 10, 1998·10 cites·7 claims
- 3343US2007083697A1Flash memory managementMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 3434US9270484B2Data center network using circuit switchingTHACKER CHARLES P·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 23, 2016·0 cites·20 claims
- 3532US5058131ATransmitting high-bandwidth signals on coaxial cableDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Oct 15, 1991·5 cites·12 claims
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