Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Fred Gruner

25Patents
9h-index
20Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 26, 1996 → Oct 28, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6880049B2 Sharing a second tier cache memory in a multi-processor Electricity 121 Expired
US6754774B2 Streaming output engine facilitating data transfers between application engines and memory Electricity 107 Expired
US10289469B2 Reliability enhancement utilizing speculative execution systems and methods Physics 42 Active
US6901482B2 Managing ownership of a full cache line using a store-create operation Electricity 25 Expired
US6839808B2 Processing cluster having multiple compute engines and shared tier one caches Electricity 20 Expired
US6032278A Method and apparatus for performing scan testing Physics 17 Expired
US8301980B2 Error detection and correction for external DRAM Electricity 15 Active
US6901489B2 Streaming input engine facilitating data transfers between application engines and memory Electricity 9 Expired
US5978944A Method and apparatus for scan testing dynamic circuits Physics 9 Expired
US7068603B2 Cross-bar switch Electricity 9 Expired
US6901488B2 Compute engine employing a coprocessor Electricity 7 Expired
US6684322B1 Method and system for instruction length decode Physics 6 Expired
US7213129B1 Method and system for a two stage pipelined instruction decode and alignment using previous instruction length Physics 6 Expired
US8321761B1 ECC bits used as additional register file storage Physics 5 Active
US5872795A Method and apparatus for scan testing of multi-phase logic Physics 4 Expired
US7123585B2 Cross-bar switch with bandwidth allocation Electricity 2 Expired
US8190974B2 Error detection and correction for external DRAM Physics 2 Active
US9490847B2 Error detection and correction for external DRAM Electricity 2 Active
US7170902B2 Cross-bar switch incorporating a sink port with retry capability Electricity 2 Expired
US6862669B2 First tier cache memory preventing stale data storage Electricity 1 Expired
US6920529B2 Transferring data between cache memory and a media access controller Electricity 1 Expired
US7813364B2 Cross-bar switch incorporating a sink port with retry capability Electricity 0 Active
US8250439B1 ECC bits used as additional register file storage Physics 0 Active
US9734545B2 Software methods in a GPU Physics 0 Active
US7733905B2 Cross-bar switch having bandwidth allocation Electricity 0 Active

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