Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Michael John Mayfield

25Patents
16h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: May 13, 1983 → Nov 5, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5737565A System and method for diallocating stream from a stream buffer Physics 90 Expired
US6574712B1 Software prefetch system and method for predetermining amount of streamed data Physics 64 Expired
US6460115B1 System and method for prefetching data to multiple levels of cache including selectively using a software hint to override a hardware prefetch mechanism Physics 56 Expired
US6085291A System and method for selectively controlling fetching and prefetching of data to a processor Physics 46 Expired
US4571671A Data processor having multiple-buffer adapter between a system channel and an input/output bus Physics 46 Expired
US5740399A Modified L1/L2 cache inclusion for aggressive prefetch Physics 45 Expired
US5758119A System and method for indicating that a processor has prefetched data into a primary cache and not into a secondary cache Physics 43 Expired
US6446167B1 Cache prefetching of L2 and L3 Physics 39 Expired
US5623632A System and method for improving multilevel cache performance in a multiprocessing system Physics 32 Expired
US5664147A System and method that progressively prefetches additional lines to a distributed stream buffer as the sequentiality of the memory accessing is demonstrated Physics 32 Expired
US6915415B2 Method and apparatus for mapping software prefetch instructions to hardware prefetch logic Physics 27 Expired
US5721864A Prefetching instructions between caches Physics 27 Expired
US5787478A Method and system for implementing a cache coherency mechanism for utilization within a non-inclusive cache memory hierarchy Physics 25 Expired
US6535962B1 System and method for prefetching data using a hardware prefetch mechanism Physics 24 Expired
US6578130B2 Programmable data prefetch pacing Physics 19 Expired
US5809529A Prefetching of committed instructions from a memory to an instruction cache Physics 17 Expired
US5860150A Instruction pre-fetching of a cache line within a processor Physics 13 Expired
US6202128A Method and system for pre-fetch cache interrogation using snoop port Physics 13 Expired
US6968431B2 Method and apparatus for livelock prevention in a multiprocessor system Physics 13 Expired
US7305526B2 Method, system, and program for transferring data directed to virtual memory addresses to a device memory Physics 10 Expired
US6446170B1 Efficient store machine in cache based microprocessor Physics 9 Expired
US6178493A Multiprocessor stalled store detection Physics 8 Expired
US6587930B1 Method and system for implementing remstat protocol under inclusion and non-inclusion of L1 data in L2 cache to prevent read-read deadlock Physics 2 Expired
US6298417A Pipelined cache memory deallocation and storeback Physics 1 Expired
US7171445B2 Fixed snoop response time for source-clocked multiprocessor busses Physics 0 Expired

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