Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Peter C. Damron

30Patents
13h-index
13Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 23, 1997 → Dec 15, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6918111B1 System and method for scheduling instructions to maximize outstanding prefetches and loads Physics 42 Expired
US6782454B1 System and method for pre-fetching for pointer linked data structures Physics 33 Expired
US6654952B1 Region based optimizations using data dependence graphs Physics 29 Expired
US7039910B2 Technique for associating execution characteristics with instructions or operations of program code Physics 23 Expired
US6578111B1 Cache memory system and method for managing streaming-data Physics 22 Expired
US6668307B1 System and method for a software controlled cache Physics 21 Expired
US8612978B2 Code execution utilizing single or multiple threads Physics 19 Active
US8516465B2 Register prespill phase in a compiler Physics 18 Active
US6427235B1 Method and apparatus for performing prefetching at the critical section level Physics 15 Expired
US6598124B1 System and method for identifying streaming-data Physics 15 Expired
US6687807B1 Method for apparatus for prefetching linked data structures Physics 14 Expired
US5920722A System and process for efficiently determining absolute memory addresses for an intermediate code model Physics 14 Expired
US6718542B1 Disambiguating memory references based upon user-specified programming constraints Physics 13 Expired
US6574713B1 Heuristic for identifying loads guaranteed to hit in processor cache Physics 13 Expired
US6567975B1 Method and apparatus for inserting data prefetch operations using data flow analysis Physics 13 Expired
US6651245B1 System and method for insertion of prefetch instructions by a compiler Physics 11 Expired
US6421826B1 Method and apparatus for performing prefetching at the function level Physics 9 Expired
US6675372B1 Counting speculative and non-speculative events Physics 9 Expired
US6725363B1 Method for filtering instructions to get more precise event counts Physics 8 Expired
US6678796B1 System and method for scheduling memory instructions to provide adequate prefetch latency Physics 7 Expired
US6931510B1 Method and system for translation lookaside buffer coherence in multiprocessor systems Physics 7 Expired
US7502910B2 Sideband scout thread processor for reducing latency associated with a main processor Physics 7 Expired
US6785796B1 Method and apparatus for software prefetching using non-faulting loads Physics 7 Expired
US7137111B2 Aggressive prefetch of address chains Physics 5 Expired
US6167504A Method, apparatus and computer program product for processing stack related exception traps Physics 5 Expired

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