Inventor · Carrollton, TX, US

Mark Bluhm

36Patents
17h-index
17Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 17, 1986 → Oct 31, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5630149A Pipelined processor with register renaming hardware to accommodate multiple size registers Physics 96 Expired
US5907860A System and method of retiring store data from a write buffer Physics 78 Expired
US5963984A Address translation unit employing programmable page size Physics 68 Expired
US6138230A Processor with multiple execution pipelines using pipe stage state information to control independent movement of instructions between pipe stages of an execution pipeline Physics 65 Expired
US5479616A Exception handling for prefetched instruction bytes using valid bits to identify instructions that will cause an exception Physics 57 Expired
US5630143A Microprocessor with externally controllable power management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US5632037A Microprocessor having power management circuitry with coprocessor support Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US5584009A System and method of retiring store data from a write buffer Physics 47 Expired
US6205560A Debug system allowing programmable selection of alternate debug mechanisms such as debug handler, SMI, or JTAG Physics 44 Expired
US6073231A Pipelined processor with microcontrol of register translation hardware Physics 41 Expired
US5524234A Coherency for write-back cache in a system designed for write-through cache including write-back latency control Physics 40 Expired
US6088807A Computer system with low power mode invoked by halt instruction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US5860111A Coherency for write-back cache in a system designed for write-through cache including export-on-hold Physics 28 Expired
US5838897A Debugging a processor using data output during idle bus cycles Physics 27 Expired
US6343363B1 Method of invoking a low power mode in a computer system using a halt instruction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US4729093A Microcomputer which prioritizes instruction prefetch requests and data operand requests Physics 21 Expired
US5784589A Distributed free register tracking for register renaming using an availability tracking register associated with each stage of an execution pipeline Physics 19 Expired
US5937178A Register file for registers with multiple addressable sizes using read-modify-write for register file update Physics 17 Expired
US5664149A Coherency for write-back cache in a system designed for write-through cache using an export/invalidate protocol Physics 15 Expired
US5596731A Single clock bus transfers during burst and non-burst cycles Physics 14 Expired
US4763253A Microcomputer with change of flow Physics 14 Expired
US5898815A I/O bus interface recovery counter dependent upon minimum bus clocks to prevent overrun and ratio of execution core clock frequency to system bus clock frequency Physics 12 Expired
US5159210A Line precharging circuits and methods Electricity 12 Expired
US5771365A Condensed microaddress generation in a complex instruction set computer Physics 12 Expired
US5375209A Microprocessor for selectively configuring pinout by activating tri-state device to disable internal clock from external pin Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired

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