Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Jeffrey Todd Bridges

57Patents
12h-index
58Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 31, 1992 → Sep 12, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5996092A System and method for tracing program execution within a processor before and after a triggering event Physics 81 Expired
US6055584A Processor local bus posted DMA FlyBy burst transfers Physics 70 Expired
US6826747B1 System and method for tracing program instructions before and after a trace triggering event within a processor Physics 63 Expired
US6081860A Address pipelining for data transfers Physics 50 Expired
US5291076A Decoder/comparator and method of operation Electricity 49 Expired
US5450560A Pointer for use with a buffer and method of operation Physics 39 Expired
US5809293A System and method for program execution tracing within an integrated processor Physics 36 Expired
US7624256B2 System and method wherein conditional instructions unconditionally provide output Physics 20 Expired
US9413344B2 Automatic calibration circuits for operational calibration of critical-path time delays in adaptive clock distribution systems, and related methods and systems Electricity 17 Active
US7152155B2 System and method of correcting a branch misprediction Physics 17 Expired
US6513134B1 System and method for tracing program execution within a superscalar processor Physics 14 Expired
US7278012B2 Method and apparatus for efficiently accessing first and second branch history tables to predict branch instructions Physics 13 Expired
US8008961B2 Adaptive clock generators, systems, and methods Electricity 12 Active
US7415638B2 Pre-decode error handling via branch correction Physics 10 Active
US8725488B2 Method and apparatus for adaptive voltage scaling based on instruction usage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US7366869B2 Method and system for optimizing translation lookaside buffer entries Physics 10 Expired
US7587580B2 Power efficient instruction prefetch mechanism Physics 8 Expired
US7805588B2 Caching memory attribute indicators with cached memory data field Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7426626B2 TLB lock indicator Physics 7 Active
US7366877B2 Speculative instruction issue in a simultaneously multithreaded processor Physics 7 Expired
US8797095B2 Adaptive voltage scalers (AVS), systems, and related methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US7421568B2 Power saving methods and apparatus to selectively enable cache bits based on known processor state Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6948053B2 Efficiently calculating a branch target address Physics 5 Expired
US6816962B2 Re-encoding illegal OP codes into a single illegal OP code to accommodate the extra bits associated with pre-decoded instructions Physics 5 Expired
US7821350B2 Methods and apparatus for dynamic frequency scaling of phase locked loops for microprocessors Electricity 5 Active

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