Inventor · Sudbury, MA, US

Debra Bernstein

79Patents
27h-index
72Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 1, 1988 → Dec 26, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6694380B1 Mapping requests from a processing unit that uses memory-mapped input-output space Physics 157 Expired
US6625654B1 Thread signaling in multi-threaded network processor Physics 121 Expired
US6668317B1 Microengine for parallel processor architecture Physics 121 Expired
US6532509B1 Arbitrating command requests in a parallel multi-threaded processing system Physics 94 Expired
US6661794B1 Method and apparatus for gigabit packet assignment for multithreaded packet processing Electricity 93 Expired
US6868476B2 Software controlled content addressable memory in a general purpose execution datapath Physics 76 Expired
US6560667B1 Handling contiguous memory references in a multi-queue system Physics 75 Expired
US6324624A Read lock miss control and queue management Physics 71 Expired
US6463072B1 Method and apparatus for sharing access to a bus Electricity 70 Expired
US6667920B2 Scratchpad memory Physics 69 Expired
US6587906B2 Parallel multi-threaded processing Physics 67 Expired
US6631462B1 Memory shared between processing threads Physics 66 Expired
US6307789A Scratchpad memory Physics 65 Expired
US7366865B2 Enqueueing entries in a packet queue referencing packets Physics 64 Expired
US7216204B2 Mechanism for providing early coherency detection to enable high performance memory updates in a latency sensitive multithreaded environment Physics 61 Expired
US6584522B1 Communication between processors Physics 61 Expired
US6681300B2 Read lock miss control and queue management Physics 61 Expired
US6577542B2 Scratchpad memory Physics 59 Expired
US6631430B1 Optimizations to receive packet status from fifo bus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Expired
US5542058A Pipelined computer with operand context queue to simplify context-dependent execution flow Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 43 Expired
US7020871B2 Breakpoint method for parallel hardware threads in multithreaded processor Physics 42 Expired
US6976095B1 Port blocking technique for maintaining receive packet ordering for a multiple ethernet port switch Electricity 42 Expired
US6934951B2 Parallel processor with functional pipeline providing programming engines by supporting multiple contexts and critical section Physics 37 Expired
US7111296B2 Thread signaling in multi-threaded processor Physics 33 Expired
US7546444B1 Register set used in multithreaded parallel processor architecture Physics 30 Expired

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