Inventor · Boca Raton, FL, US

Rex Eldon McCrary

46Patents
6h-index
45Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: May 27, 1994 → May 29, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5632016A System for reformatting a response packet with speed code from a source packet using DMA engine to retrieve count field and address from source packet Physics 104 Expired
US5619646A Method and system for dynamically appending a data block to a variable length transmit list while transmitting another data block over a serial bus Physics 42 Expired
US5469577A Providing alternate bus master with multiple cycles of bursting access to local bus in a dual bus system including a processor local bus and a device communications bus Physics 29 Expired
US8310492B2 Hardware-based scheduling of GPU work Physics 20 Active
US9507632B2 Preemptive context switching of processes on ac accelerated processing device (APD) based on time quanta Physics 9 Active
US10664942B2 Reconfigurable virtual graphics and compute processor pipeline Physics 8 Active
US8068114B2 Mechanism for granting controlled access to a shared resource Physics 6 Active
US9176795B2 Graphics processing dispatch from user mode Physics 5 Active
US9519943B2 Priority-based command execution Physics 4 Active
US10198849B1 Preloading translation and data caches using on-chip DMA engine with fast data discard Physics 3 Active
US8963933B2 Method for urgency-based preemption of a process Physics 3 Active
US8854381B2 Processing unit that enables asynchronous task dispatch Physics 2 Active
US9256465B2 Process device context switching Physics 2 Active
US9122522B2 Software mechanisms for managing task scheduling on an accelerated processing device (APD) Physics 2 Active
US10725822B2 VMID as a GPU task container for virtualization Physics 2 Active
US8803891B2 Method for preempting graphics tasks to accommodate compute tasks in an accelerated processing device (APD) Physics 1 Active
US10558489B2 Suspend and restore processor operations Physics 1 Active
US11467870B2 VMID as a GPU task container for virtualization Physics 1 Active
US8743131B2 Course grain command buffer Physics 1 Active
US9299121B2 Preemptive context switching Physics 1 Active
US10078882B2 Priority-based command execution Physics 1 Active
US7594069B2 Method and apparatus for single instruction multiple data caching Physics 1 Expired
US10955901B2 Saving power in the command processor using queue based watermarks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8576236B2 Mechanism for granting controlled access to a shared resource Physics 1 Active
US10579388B2 Policies for shader resource allocation in a shader core Physics 1 Active

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