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Robert Alan Williams
Also filed as: VISWANATH SOMNATH · WILLIAMS ROBERT · WILLIAMS ROBERT A · WILLIAMS ROBERT ALAN
61 granted patents·2 pending applications·2,386 citations·filing 1977–2009
99Inventor score
Files withADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC48GEN ELECTRIC3HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO2GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC1GURLEY PRECISION INSTR INC1
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63 records- 0195US6957269B2Method and apparatus for performing priority-based flow controlADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 18, 2005·145 cites·22 claims
- 0294US6055578AApparatus and method for selectively controlling transmission of consecutive packets in a network stationADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 25, 2000·269 cites·22 claims
- 0392US7689738B1Peripheral devices and methods for transferring incoming data status entries from a peripheral to a hostADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 30, 2010·75 cites·31 claims
- 0492US6963946B1Descriptor management systems and methods for transferring data between a host and a peripheralADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 8, 2005·77 cites·41 claims
- 0591US6859825B1System and method enabling configuration of physical layer devices and corresponding link partners for communicating network data via a configuration source or auto-negotiationADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 22, 2005·81 cites·15 claims
- 0688US6775283B1Passing vlan information through descriptorsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 10, 2004·63 cites·20 claims
- 0786US7502474B2Network interface with security association data prefetch for high speed offloaded security processingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 10, 2009·51 cites·19 claims
- 0883US8351445B1Network interface systems and methods for offloading segmentation and/or checksumming with security processingGLOBALFOUNDRIES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jan 8, 2013·31 cites·60 claims
- 0983US5938771AApparatus and method in a network interface for enabling power up of a host computer using magic packet and on-now power up management schemesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 17, 1999·112 cites·13 claims
- 1082US7818563B1Method to maximize hardware utilization in flow-thru IPsec processingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 19, 2010·36 cites·20 claims
- 1182US6581113B1Apparatus and method for transferring frame data between a host system memory and a network interface buffer memory employing transmit descriptors without transmit status informationADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 17, 2003·34 cites·10 claims
- 1281US4332714ADrip-retardant plasticized polyphenylene ether compositions containing microfibrillar poly(tetrafluoroethylene)GEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1978·Granted Jun 1, 1982·29 cites·15 claims
- 1380US7624263B1Security association table lookup architecture and method of operationADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 24, 2009·31 cites·19 claims
- 1478US7065582B1Automatic generation of flow control framesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 20, 2006·26 cites·19 claims
- 1578US7031325B1Method and apparatus for enabling a network device to operate in accordance with multiple protocolsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 18, 2006·28 cites·18 claims
- 1678US6775290B1Multiport network switch supporting multiple VLANs per portADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 10, 2004·103 cites·13 claims
- 1778US6535489B1Method and apparatus in a network switch for handling link failure and link recovery in a trunked data pathADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 18, 2003·104 cites·19 claims
- 1876US6993033B1Method and apparatus for synchronizing aging operations associated with an address tableADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 31, 2006·23 cites·16 claims
- 1976US6631485B1Methods and apparatus for data storage on magnetic media including error correction codesHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 7, 2003·34 cites·24 claims
- 2076US6515993B1Method and apparatus for manipulating VLAN tagsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 4, 2003·91 cites·17 claims
- 2174US6853902B2Motor vehicle dynamic stability controlJAGUAR CARS·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 8, 2005·17 cites·9 claims
- 2274US6680945B1Method and apparatus for support of tagging and untagging per VLAN per portADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 20, 2004·82 cites·16 claims
- 2373US7685434B2Two parallel engines for high speed transmit IPsec processingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 23, 2010·16 cites·11 claims
- 2473US6728793B1System management bus address resolution protocol proxy deviceADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 27, 2004·20 cites·19 claims
- 2572US7027437B1Network switch multiple-port sniffingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 11, 2006·75 cites·18 claims
- 2671US8504728B1Network interface with secondary data and packet information storage and memory control systems to accommodate out-of-order data processing and split transactions on a host system busWILLIAMS ROBERT ALAN·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 6, 2013·18 cites·10 claims
- 2769US6625146B1Method and apparatus for operating a network switch in a CPU-less environmentADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 23, 2003·65 cites·27 claims
- 2869US6442137B1Apparatus and method in a network switch for swapping memory access slots between gigabit port and expansion portADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 27, 2002·67 cites·22 claims
- 2968US7151774B1Method and apparatus for trunking links having different transmission ratesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 19, 2006·12 cites·18 claims
- 3066US7080135B1Systems and methods for accessing an address table of a network deviceADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 18, 2006·11 cites·20 claims
- 3165US7512787B1Receive IPSEC in-line processing of mutable fields for AH algorithmADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 31, 2009·10 cites·17 claims
- 3265US6526482B1Method of and apparatus for tracking appended data on storage mediumHEWLETT PACKARD CO·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 25, 2003·19 cites·8 claims
- 3365US6127948ABidirectional synthesis of pseudorandom sequences for arbitrary encoding resolutionsGURLEY PRECISION INSTR INC·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 3, 2000·30 cites·63 claims
- 3463US6546010B1Bandwidth efficiency in cascaded schemeADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 8, 2003·51 cites·12 claims
- 3563US4532281AMineral filled polyphenylene ether resin compositions containing polytetrafluoroethylene resinGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1983·Granted Jul 30, 1985·15 cites·12 claims
- 3660US6665750B1Input/output device configured for minimizing I/O read operations by copying values to system memoryADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 16, 2003·7 cites·13 claims
- 3760US6304911B1Information packet reception indicator for reducing the utilization of a host system processor unitADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 16, 2001·41 cites·15 claims
- 3859US6735649B2Multiple buffers for removing unwanted header information from received data packetsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 11, 2004·6 cites·22 claims
- 3959US4206154AThermoplastic molding compositions containing a flame retardant and a smoke suppressantGEN ELECTRIC·Filed 1977·Granted Jun 3, 1980·13 cites·9 claims
- 4057US7031305B1Apparatus and method for programmable memory access slot assignmentADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 18, 2006·38 cites·16 claims
- 4157US6731596B1Network switch having system for automatically detecting change in network node connectionADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted May 4, 2004·39 cites·20 claims
- 4255US7164681B2Mechanism to strip LARQ header and preserve LARQ header in status frameADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 16, 2007·3 cites·12 claims
- 4355US5938728AApparatus and method for selectively controlling clocking and resetting of a network interfaceADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 17, 1999·30 cites·19 claims
- 4454US6105102AMechanism for minimizing overhead usage of a host system by polling for subsequent interrupts after service of a prior interruptADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 15, 2000·27 cites·16 claims
- 4553US6715033B2Method of and apparatus for tracking appended data on storage mediumHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 30, 2004·4 cites·16 claims
- 4652US6501734B1Apparatus and method in a network switch for dynamically assigning memory interface slots between gigabit port and expansion portADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 31, 2002·30 cites·23 claims
- 4752US6401142B1Apparatus and method for selective bus transfer using master and slave modesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 4, 2002·25 cites·17 claims
- 4852US5822538AMethod and apparatus for prioritizing traffic in half-duplex networks by selecting delay intervals from fixed rangesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 13, 1998·26 cites·27 claims
- 4951US6834313B1Performing a two-step read on a MAC register in a home network as an atomic readADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 21, 2004·1 cites·15 claims
- 5050US7149818B2Method to communicate PHY mean square error to upper layer device driver for rate negotiationADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 12, 2006·1 cites·9 claims
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