Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Hoichi Cheong

36Patents
15h-index
29Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 14, 1994 → Apr 26, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5584013A Hierarchical cache arrangement wherein the replacement of an LRU entry in a second level cache is prevented when the cache entry is the only inclusive entry in the first level cache Physics 70 Expired
US6553480B1 System and method for managing the execution of instruction groups having multiple executable instructions Physics 70 Expired
US5961636A Checkpoint table for selective instruction flushing in a speculative execution unit Physics 67 Expired
US5870582A Method and apparatus for completion of non-interruptible instructions before the instruction is dispatched Physics 58 Expired
US5887161A Issuing instructions in a processor supporting out-of-order execution Physics 40 Expired
US6073211A Method and system for memory updates within a multiprocessor data processing system Physics 39 Expired
US5913048A Dispatching instructions in a processor supporting out-of-order execution Physics 34 Expired
US5974524A Method and apparatus for reducing the number of rename registers in a processor supporting out-of-order execution Physics 28 Expired
US6098167A Apparatus and method for fast unified interrupt recovery and branch recovery in processors supporting out-of-order execution Physics 26 Expired
US5996085A Concurrent execution of machine context synchronization operations and non-interruptible instructions Physics 24 Expired
US5694573A Shared L2 support for inclusion property in split L1 data and instruction caches Physics 23 Expired
US6308260A Mechanism for self-initiated instruction issuing and method therefor Physics 22 Expired
US5870612A Method and apparatus for condensed history buffer Physics 18 Expired
US5897651A Information handling system including a direct access set associative cache and method for accessing same Physics 16 Expired
US5860014A Method and apparatus for improved recovery of processor state using history buffer Physics 15 Expired
US6070235A Data processing system and method for capturing history buffer data Physics 15 Expired
US6324640A System and method for dispatching groups of instructions using pipelined register renaming Physics 14 Expired
US5533189A System and method for error correction code generation Physics 13 Expired
US6061777A Apparatus and method for reducing the number of rename registers required in the operation of a processor Physics 13 Expired
US5805906A Method and apparatus for writing information to registers in a data processing system using a number of registers for processing instructions Physics 12 Expired
US5875326A Data processing system and method for completing out-of-order instructions Physics 11 Expired
US6986010B2 Cache lock mechanism with speculative allocation Physics 11 Expired
US8930678B2 Instruction and logic to length decode X86 instructions Physics 11 Active
US6898696B1 Method and system for efficiently restoring a processor's execution state following an interrupt caused by an interruptible instruction Physics 10 Expired
US7266648B2 Cache lock mechanism with speculative allocation Physics 10 Expired

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