Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Jeffrey Douglas Brown

39Patents
13h-index
44Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 17, 1989 → Jul 26, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8139060B2 Ray tracing image processing system Physics 130 Active
US8085267B2 Stochastic addition of rays in a ray tracing image processing system Physics 129 Active
US8022950B2 Stochastic culling of rays with increased depth of recursion Physics 127 Active
US7940265B2 Multiple spacial indexes for dynamic scene management in graphics rendering Physics 126 Active
US5812817A Compression architecture for system memory application Physics 106 Expired
US4941120A Floating point normalization and rounding prediction circuit Physics 48 Expired
US5710909A Data compression utilization method and apparatus for computer main store Physics 43 Expired
US5093908A Method and apparatus for executing instructions in a single sequential instruction stream in a main processor and a coprocessor Physics 33 Expired
US4926370A Method and apparatus for processing postnormalization and rounding in parallel Physics 29 Expired
US5805086A Method and system for compressing data that facilitates high-speed data decompression Physics 28 Expired
US7096470B2 Method and apparatus for implementing thread replacement for optimal performance in a two-tiered multithreading structure Physics 23 Expired
USH1222H Apparatus for determining sticky bit value in arithmetic operations General 14 Active
US7096289B2 Sender to receiver request retry method and apparatus Physics 14 Expired
US7818507B2 Methods and apparatus for facilitating coherency management in distributed multi-processor system Physics 10 Active
US8856602B2 Multi-core processor with internal voting-based built in self test (BIST) Physics 7 Active
US7996621B2 Data cache invalidate with data dependent expiration using a step value Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7852336B2 Dynamic determination of optimal spatial index mapping to processor thread resources Physics 7 Active
US7107363B2 Microprocessor having bandwidth management for computing applications and related method of managing bandwidth allocation Physics 7 Expired
US7836258B2 Dynamic data cache invalidate with data dependent expiration Physics 7 Active
US7099975B2 Method of resource arbitration Physics 5 Expired
US8248402B2 Adaptive ray data reorder for optimized ray temporal locality Physics 4 Active
US6922753B2 Cache prefetching Physics 4 Expired
US8284195B2 Cooperative utilization of spatial indices between application and rendering hardware Physics 3 Active
US7194586B2 Method and apparatus for implementing cache state as history of read/write shared data Physics 3 Expired
US7299372B2 Hierarchical management for multiprocessor system with real-time attributes Physics 3 Expired

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