Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Ryan C. Kinter

29Patents
10h-index
20Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 31, 2000 → Aug 10, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7853777B2 Instruction/skid buffers in a multithreading microprocessor that store dispatched instructions to avoid re-fetching flushed instructions Physics 41 Expired
US6430655B1 Scratchpad RAM memory accessible in parallel to a primary cache Physics 40 Expired
US7752627B2 Leaky-bucket thread scheduler in a multithreading microprocessor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US6836833B1 Apparatus and method for discovering a scratch pad memory configuration Physics 25 Expired
US7664936B2 Prioritizing thread selection partly based on stall likelihood providing status information of instruction operand register usage at pipeline stages Physics 17 Expired
US7558939B2 Three-tiered translation lookaside buffer hierarchy in a multithreading microprocessor Physics 13 Active
US7657891B2 Multithreading microprocessor with optimized thread scheduler for increasing pipeline utilization efficiency Physics 12 Active
US7660969B2 Multithreading instruction scheduler employing thread group priorities Physics 11 Active
US7594089B2 Smart memory based synchronization controller for a multi-threaded multiprocessor SoC Physics 11 Expired
US7627794B2 Apparatus and method for discrete test access control of multiple cores Physics 10 Active
US8131941B2 Support for multiple coherence domains Physics 10 Active
US7315937B2 Microprocessor instructions for efficient bit stream extractions Physics 10 Expired
US7613904B2 Interfacing external thread prioritizing policy enforcing logic with customer modifiable register to processor internal scheduler Physics 10 Expired
US7707389B2 Multi-ISA instruction fetch unit for a processor, and applications thereof Physics 9 Expired
US7925859B2 Three-tiered translation lookaside buffer hierarchy in a multithreading microprocessor Physics 8 Active
US7657708B2 Methods for reducing data cache access power in a processor using way selection bits Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7681014B2 Multithreading instruction scheduler employing thread group priorities Physics 6 Expired
US8230202B2 Apparatus and method for condensing trace information in a multi-processor system Physics 6 Active
US7650465B2 Micro tag array having way selection bits for reducing data cache access power Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US8151268B2 Multithreading microprocessor with optimized thread scheduler for increasing pipeline utilization efficiency Physics 5 Active
US7769958B2 Avoiding livelock using intervention messages in multiple core processors Physics 4 Active
US8392663B2 Coherent instruction cache utilizing cache-op execution resources Physics 3 Active
US6961819B2 Method and apparatus for redirection of operations between interfaces Physics 2 Expired
US10782977B2 Fault detecting and fault tolerant multi-threaded processors Physics 1 Active
US7873810B2 Microprocessor instruction using address index values to enable access of a virtual buffer in circular fashion Physics 1 Expired

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