Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Benjamin T. Sander

41Patents
15h-index
46Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 29, 1998 → Feb 8, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6571318B1 Stride based prefetcher with confidence counter and dynamic prefetch-ahead mechanism Physics 106 Expired
US6725337B1 Method and system for speculatively invalidating lines in a cache Physics 60 Expired
US7089400B1 Data speculation based on stack-relative addressing patterns Physics 60 Expired
US7263600B2 System and method for validating a memory file that links speculative results of load operations to register values Physics 49 Expired
US6845442B1 System and method of using speculative operand sources in order to speculatively bypass load-store operations Physics 44 Expired
US7024537B2 Data speculation based on addressing patterns identifying dual-purpose register Physics 43 Expired
US6973563B1 Microprocessor including return prediction unit configured to determine whether a stored return address corresponds to more than one call instruction Physics 35 Expired
US6823427B1 Sectored least-recently-used cache replacement Physics 33 Expired
US6981119B1 System and method for storing performance-enhancing data in memory space freed by data compression Physics 31 Expired
US7315935B1 Apparatus and method for port arbitration in a register file on the basis of functional unit issue slots Physics 29 Expired
US7133969B2 System and method for handling exceptional instructions in a trace cache based processor Physics 27 Expired
US6950925B1 Scheduler for use in a microprocessor that supports data-speculative execution Physics 23 Expired
US7133995B1 Dynamic page conflict prediction for DRAM Physics 17 Expired
US7197630B1 Method and system for changing the executable status of an operation following a branch misprediction without refetching the operation Physics 16 Expired
US7937569B1 System and method for scheduling operations using speculative data operands Physics 15 Expired
US6113970A Lecithin based spray product Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US6976122B1 Dynamic idle counter threshold value for use in memory paging policy Physics 13 Expired
US6408364B1 Apparatus and method for implementing a least recently used cache replacement algorithm Physics 11 Expired
US7222226B1 System and method for modifying a load operation to include a register-to-register move operation in order to forward speculative load results to a dependent operation Physics 9 Expired
US8195887B2 Processor power management and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US9645854B2 Dynamic work partitioning on heterogeneous processing devices Physics 7 Active
US7165167B2 Load store unit with replay mechanism Physics 5 Expired
US9430281B2 Heterogeneous enqueuing and dequeuing mechanism for task scheduling Physics 4 Active
US7266673B2 Speculation pointers to identify data-speculative operations in microprocessor Physics 3 Expired
US8667225B2 Store aware prefetching for a datastream Physics 3 Active

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