Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Robert F. Krick

34Patents
15h-index
34Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 3, 1988 → Dec 5, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6018786A Trace based instruction caching Physics 77 Expired
US5781774A Processor having operating modes for an upgradeable multiprocessor computer system Physics 69 Expired
US5050068A Method and apparatus for using extracted program flow information to prepare for execution multiple instruction streams Physics 65 Expired
US6442674B1 Method and system for bypassing a fill buffer located along a first instruction path Physics 62 Expired
US6014742A Trace branch prediction unit Physics 56 Expired
US6170038A Trace based instruction caching Physics 41 Expired
US5630107A System for loading PLL from bus fraction register when bus fraction register is in either first or second state and bus unit not busy Physics 40 Expired
US7856633B1 LRU cache replacement for a partitioned set associative cache Physics 30 Expired
US5490279A Method and apparatus for operating a single CPU computer system as a multiprocessor system Physics 29 Expired
US5726921A Floating point power conservation Physics 22 Expired
US5638382A Built-in self test function for a processor including intermediate test results Physics 21 Expired
US6493797B1 Multi-tag system and method for cache read/write Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US6457119B1 Processor instruction pipeline with error detection scheme Physics 17 Expired
US6578138B1 System and method for unrolling loops in a trace cache Physics 16 Expired
US6338132B1 System and method for storing immediate data Physics 15 Expired
US6009504A Apparatus and method for storing data associated with multiple addresses in a storage element using a base address and a mask Physics 13 Expired
US6493821B1 Recovery from writeback stage event signal or micro-branch misprediction using instruction sequence number indexed state information table Physics 11 Expired
US5884091A Computer system having a central processing unit responsive to the identity of an upgrade processor Physics 10 Expired
US6035315A Floating point power conservation Physics 8 Expired
US9058269B2 Method and apparatus including a probe filter for shared caches utilizing inclusion bits and a victim probe bit Physics 7 Active
US6915396B2 Fast priority determination circuit with rotating priority Physics 6 Expired
US5931930A Processor that indicates system bus ownership in an upgradable multiprocessor computer system Physics 4 Expired
US6711669B2 System and method for storing immediate data Physics 3 Expired
US6918021B2 System of and method for flow control within a tag pipeline Physics 3 Expired
US7149883B1 Method and apparatus selectively to advance a write pointer for a queue based on the indicated validity or invalidity of an instruction stored within the queue Physics 2 Expired

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