Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Mark W. Hervin

21Patents
16h-index
24Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 18, 1993 → Nov 29, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6654373B1 Content aware network apparatus Electricity 181 Expired
US6381242B1 Content processor Electricity 172 Expired
US5471598A Data dependency detection and handling in a microprocessor with write buffer Physics 109 Expired
US6957258B2 Policy gateway Electricity 97 Expired
US6910134B1 Method and device for innoculating email infected with a virus Physics 76 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
US7272115B2 Method and apparatus for enforcing service level agreements Electricity 45 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
US5805879A In a pipelined processor, setting a segment access indicator during execution stage using exception handling Physics 32 Expired
US5838897A Debugging a processor using data output during idle bus cycles Physics 27 Expired
US7002974B1 Learning state machine for use in internet protocol networks Electricity 26 Expired
US5596735A Circuit and method for addressing segment descriptor tables Physics 23 Expired
US5835949A Method of identifying and self-modifying code Physics 21 Expired
US5524222A Microsequencer allowing a sequence of conditional jumps without requiring the insertion of NOP or other instructions Physics 20 Expired
US5961575A Microprocessor having combined shift and rotate circuit Physics 18 Expired
US5742755A Error-handling circuit and method for memory address alignment double fault Physics 9 Expired
US5644741A Processor with single clock decode architecture employing single microROM Physics 8 Expired
US7031316B2 Content processor Electricity 4 Expired
US5794026A Microprocessor having expedited execution of condition dependent instructions Physics 4 Expired
US9256548B2 Rule-based virtual address translation for accessing data Physics 1 Active

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