Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Rodney E. Hooker

141Patents
18h-index
24Co-inventors
86Inventor score

Filing activity: May 18, 1999 → Oct 7, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6832296B2 Microprocessor with repeat prefetch instruction Physics 109 Expired
US7546446B2 Selective interrupt suppression Physics 65 Expired
US6647489B1 Compare branch instruction pairing within a single integer pipeline Physics 49 Expired
US6338136B1 Pairing of load-ALU-store with conditional branch Physics 48 Expired
US6681311B2 Translation lookaside buffer that caches memory type information Physics 43 Expired
US9811468B2 Set associative cache memory with heterogeneous replacement policy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US7191320B2 Apparatus and method for performing a detached load operation in a pipeline microprocessor Physics 34 Expired
US7065632B1 Method and apparatus for speculatively forwarding storehit data in a hierarchical manner Physics 32 Expired
US6549985B1 Method and apparatus for resolving additional load misses and page table walks under orthogonal stalls in a single pipeline processor Physics 29 Expired
US7181596B2 Apparatus and method for extending a microprocessor instruction set Physics 28 Expired
US9389863B2 Processor that performs approximate computing instructions Physics 28 Active
US6622211B2 Virtual set cache that redirects store data to correct virtual set to avoid virtual set store miss penalty Physics 24 Expired
US8364902B2 Microprocessor with repeat prefetch indirect instruction Physics 23 Active
US7111125B2 Apparatus and method for renaming a data block within a cache Physics 22 Expired
US8090931B2 Microprocessor with fused store address/store data microinstruction Physics 22 Active
US6810466B2 Microprocessor and method for performing selective prefetch based on bus activity level Physics 22 Expired
US8782348B2 Microprocessor cache line evict array Physics 20 Active
US9043580B2 Accessing model specific registers (MSR) with different sets of distinct microinstructions for instructions of different instruction set architecture (ISA) Physics 19 Active
US7529912B2 Apparatus and method for instruction-level specification of floating point format Physics 18 Expired
US7315921B2 Apparatus and method for selective memory attribute control Physics 17 Expired
US7543134B2 Apparatus and method for extending a microprocessor instruction set Physics 16 Active
US7373483B2 Mechanism for extending the number of registers in a microprocessor Physics 16 Expired
US6553473B1 Byte-wise tracking on write allocate Physics 16 Expired
US8392693B2 Fast REP STOS using grabline operations Physics 13 Active
US6985999B2 Microprocessor and method for utilizing disparity between bus clock and core clock frequencies to prioritize cache line fill bus access requests Physics 12 Expired

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