Inventor · Scottsdale, AZ, US

Bryant Bigbee

47Patents
11h-index
88Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 18, 1997 → Sep 14, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6349380B1 Linear address extension and mapping to physical memory using 4 and 8 byte page table entries in a 32-bit microprocessor Physics 75 Expired
US7882339B2 Primitives to enhance thread-level speculation Physics 51 Expired
US8762694B1 Programmable event-driven yield mechanism Physics 16 Expired
US7810083B2 Mechanism to emulate user-level multithreading on an OS-sequestered sequencer Physics 15 Active
US7974416B2 Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment Physics 15 Expired
US6920581B2 Method and apparatus for functional redundancy check mode recovery Physics 13 Expired
US8010969B2 Mechanism for monitoring instruction set based thread execution on a plurality of instruction sequencers Physics 13 Active
US7743233B2 Sequencer address management Physics 13 Active
US7849465B2 Programmable event driven yield mechanism which may activate service threads Physics 12 Active
US10162694B2 Hardware apparatuses and methods for memory corruption detection Physics 11 Active
US6289431A Method and apparatus for accessing more than 4 Gigabytes of physical memory with 4-byte table entries Physics 11 Expired
US8301868B2 System to profile and optimize user software in a managed run-time environment Physics 11 Expired
US9990206B2 Mechanism for instruction set based thread execution of a plurality of instruction sequencers Physics 9 Active
US8516483B2 Transparent support for operating system services for a sequestered sequencer Physics 8 Active
US5946713A Memory attribute palette Physics 7 Expired
US8479217B2 Apparatus, system, and method for persistent user-level thread Physics 5 Active
US8171268B2 Technique for context state management to reduce save and restore operations between a memory and a processor using in-use vectors Physics 5 Active
US6526431B1 Maintaining extended and traditional states of a processing unit in task switching Physics 5 Expired
US8719819B2 Mechanism for instruction set based thread execution on a plurality of instruction sequencers Physics 4 Active
US7793111B1 Mechanism to handle events in a machine with isolated execution Physics 4 Expired
US9026773B2 Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment Physics 3 Active
US6857066B2 Apparatus and method to identify the maximum operating frequency of a processor Physics 3 Expired
US8914618B2 Instruction set architecture-based inter-sequencer communications with a heterogeneous resource Physics 2 Active
US8607235B2 Mechanism to schedule threads on OS-sequestered sequencers without operating system intervention Physics 2 Active
US10275598B2 Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment Physics 2 Active

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