Inventor · Bengaluru, IN

Amit Merchant

38Patents
24h-index
28Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 9, 1991 → Sep 30, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5237535A Method of repairing overerased cells in a flash memory Physics 149 Expired
US6385715B1 Multi-threading for a processor utilizing a replay queue Physics 84 Expired
US6889319B1 Method and apparatus for entering and exiting multiple threads within a multithreaded processor Physics 84 Expired
US6496925B1 Method and apparatus for processing an event occurrence within a multithreaded processor Physics 83 Expired
US5327383A Method and circuitry for erasing a nonvolatile semiconductor memory incorporating row redundancy Physics 78 Expired
US5893151A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a computer system with a highly pipelined bus and multiple conflicting snoop requests Physics 73 Expired
US5377147A Method and circuitry for preconditioning shorted rows in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory incorporating row redundancy Physics 71 Expired
US5347489A Method and circuitry for preconditioning shorted rows in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory incorporating row redundancy Physics 61 Expired
US6163838A Computer processor with a replay system Physics 52 Expired
US5572703A Method and apparatus for snoop stretching using signals that convey snoop results Physics 42 Expired
US7039794B2 Method and apparatus for processing an event occurrence for a least one thread within a multithreaded processor Physics 42 Expired
US6772322B1 Method and apparatus to monitor the performance of a processor Physics 41 Expired
US5682516A Computer system that maintains system wide cache coherency during deferred communication transactions Physics 40 Expired
US5890200A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a computer system with a highly pipelined bus and multiple conflicting snoop requests Physics 38 Expired
US6334182A Scheduling operations using a dependency matrix Physics 38 Expired
US7200737B1 Processor with a replay system that includes a replay queue for improved throughput Physics 37 Expired
US6792446B2 Storing of instructions relating to a stalled thread Physics 36 Expired
US5737759A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a computer system with a highly pipelined bus and multiple conflicting snoop requests Physics 35 Expired
US5875467A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a computer system with a highly pipelined bus and multiple conflicting snoop requests Physics 35 Expired
US6785803B1 Processor including replay queue to break livelocks Physics 32 Expired
US5797026A Method and apparatus for self-snooping a bus during a boundary transaction Physics 31 Expired
US5572702A Method and apparatus for supporting read, write, and invalidation operations to memory which maintain cache consistency Physics 28 Expired
US6094717A Computer processor with a replay system having a plurality of checkers Physics 27 Expired
US6212626A Computer processor having a checker Physics 24 Expired
US5737758A Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a computer system with a highly pipelined bus and multiple conflicting snoop requests Physics 23 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.