Inventor · Fort Collins, CO, US

James E. McCormick, Jr.

16Patents
6h-index
21Co-inventors
66Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 18, 2000 → Aug 23, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6721875B1 Method and apparatus for implementing a single-syllable IP-relative branch instruction and a long IP-relative branch instruction in a processor which fetches instructions in bundle form Physics 52 Expired
US6351796B1 Methods and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a higher level cache by selectively performing writes to the higher level cache Physics 24 Expired
US6678817B1 Method and apparatus for fetching instructions from the memory subsystem of a mixed architecture processor into a hardware emulation engine Physics 13 Expired
US8443171B2 Run-time updating of prediction hint instructions Physics 13 Active
US6629167B1 Pipeline decoupling buffer for handling early data and late data Physics 11 Expired
US6470438B1 Methods and apparatus for reducing false hits in a non-tagged, n-way cache Physics 7 Expired
US6647487B1 Apparatus and method for shift register rate control of microprocessor instruction prefetches Physics 6 Expired
US6516388B1 Method and apparatus for reducing cache pollution Physics 5 Expired
US7747844B2 Acquiring instruction addresses associated with performance monitoring events Physics 4 Active
US10346177B2 Boot process with parallel memory initialization Physics 3 Active
US9442861B2 System and method for out-of-order prefetch instructions in an in-order pipeline Physics 2 Active
US6622209B2 Use of non-count data and index hashing to reduce false hits in a non-tagged, n-way cache Physics 2 Expired
US11641326B2 Shared memory mesh for switching Electricity 1 Active
US10261909B2 Speculative cache modification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US9092346B2 Speculative cache modification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US7356674B2 Method and apparatus for fetching instructions from the memory subsystem of a mixed architecture processor into a hardware emulation engine Physics 0 Expired

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