James E. Hicks
42Patents
20h-index
58Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 23, 1976 → Oct 29, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6549930B1 | Method for scheduling threads in a multithreaded processor | Physics | 174 | Expired |
| US6070009A | Method for estimating execution rates of program execution paths | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US7427266B2 | Method and apparatus for verification of ingestion | Human Necessities | 125 | Expired |
| US6493741B1 | Method and apparatus to quiesce a portion of a simultaneous multithreaded central processing unit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 119 | Expired |
| US6000044A | Apparatus for randomly sampling instructions in a processor pipeline | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US5964867A | Method for inserting memory prefetch operations based on measured latencies in a program optimizer | Physics | 110 | Expired |
| US5809450A | Method for estimating statistics of properties of instructions processed by a processor pipeline | Physics | 110 | Expired |
| US6092180A | Method for measuring latencies by randomly selected sampling of the instructions while the instruction are executed | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US6374367B1 | Apparatus and method for monitoring a computer system to guide optimization | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US5923872A | Apparatus for sampling instruction operand or result values in a processor pipeline | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US6163840A | Method and apparatus for sampling multiple potentially concurrent instructions in a processor pipeline | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US6119075A | Method for estimating statistics of properties of interactions processed by a processor pipeline | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US6675192B2 | Temporary halting of thread execution until monitoring of armed events to memory location identified in working registers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 57 | Expired |
| US6202127A | Apparatus for spatial and temporal sampling in a computer memory system | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US6195748A | Apparatus for sampling instruction execution information in a processor pipeline | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US6237073A | Method for providing virtual memory to physical memory page mapping in a computer operating system that randomly samples state information | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US6332178A | Method for estimating statistics of properties of memory system transactions | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US8068184B2 | Smart remote control | Electricity | 26 | Active |
| US6868133B2 | Method and system for overloaded array processing | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US6148396A | Apparatus for sampling path history in a processor pipeline | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US4516168A | Shutdown circuit for a switching regulator in a remote controlled television receiver | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US6175814A | Apparatus for determining the instantaneous average number of instructions processed | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US4343028A | Television receiver high voltage generator protection circuit | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US7315417B2 | Screen frame and bezel clip system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Expired |
| US7782407B2 | Smart remote control | Electricity | 8 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.