Inventor · Austin, TX, US

James Stephen Fields, Jr.

144Patents
25h-index
84Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 2, 1993 → Apr 25, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6405289B1 Multiprocessor system in which a cache serving as a highest point of coherency is indicated by a snoop response Physics 82 Expired
US6591321B1 Multiprocessor system bus protocol with group addresses, responses, and priorities Physics 67 Expired
US6393528B1 Optimized cache allocation algorithm for multiple speculative requests Physics 60 Expired
US6473833B1 Integrated cache and directory structure for multi-level caches Physics 57 Expired
US7194645B2 Method and apparatus for autonomic policy-based thermal management in a data processing system Physics 55 Expired
US6848003B1 Multi-node data processing system and communication protocol that route write data utilizing a destination ID obtained from a combined response Physics 55 Expired
US6275907A Reservation management in a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system Physics 53 Expired
US6408362B1 Data processing system, cache, and method that select a castout victim in response to the latencies of memory copies of cached data Physics 51 Expired
US6434669B1 Method of cache management to dynamically update information-type dependent cache policies Physics 51 Expired
US6356980B1 Method and system for bypassing cache levels when casting out from an upper level cache Physics 46 Expired
US7421598B2 Dynamic power management via DIMM read operation limiter Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US6658538B2 Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system having a page table including node-specific data storage and coherency control Physics 44 Expired
US6633959B2 Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system that provides notification of remote deallocation of shared data Physics 43 Expired
US6615322B2 Two-stage request protocol for accessing remote memory data in a NUMA data processing system Physics 43 Expired
US6282615A Multiprocessor system bus with a data-less castout mechanism Physics 41 Expired
US6754782B2 Decentralized global coherency management in a multi-node computer system Physics 41 Expired
US6704843B1 Enhanced multiprocessor response bus protocol enabling intra-cache line reference exchange Physics 41 Expired
US6470427B1 Programmable agent and method for managing prefetch queues Physics 40 Expired
US6760817B2 Method and system for prefetching utilizing memory initiated prefetch write operations Physics 39 Expired
US6711652B2 Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) data processing system that provides precise notification of remote deallocation of modified data Physics 35 Expired
US6434668B1 Method of cache management to store information in particular regions of the cache according to information-type Physics 34 Expired
US6601144B1 Dynamic cache management in a symmetric multiprocessor system via snoop operation sequence analysis Physics 34 Expired
US6425058B1 Cache management mechanism to enable information-type dependent cache policies Physics 29 Expired
US6230219A High performance multichannel DMA controller for a PCI host bridge with a built-in cache Physics 29 Expired
US5379386A Micro channel interface controller Physics 28 Expired

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