Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Thomas A. Crispin

36Patents
10h-index
5Co-inventors
64Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 11, 2003 → Oct 15, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7532722B2 Apparatus and method for performing transparent block cipher cryptographic functions Electricity 31 Expired
US7539876B2 Apparatus and method for generating a cryptographic key schedule in a microprocessor Electricity 29 Active
US7502943B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for providing configurable cryptographic block cipher round results Electricity 29 Active
US7321910B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for performing block cipher cryptographic functions Electricity 24 Expired
US7844053B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for performing block cipher cryptographic functions Electricity 20 Active
US8255703B2 Atomic hash instruction Electricity 17 Active
US7900055B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for employing configurable block cipher cryptographic algorithms Electricity 17 Active
US7536560B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for providing configurable cryptographic key size Electricity 16 Active
US7529368B2 Apparatus and method for performing transparent output feedback mode cryptographic functions Electricity 14 Active
US7921300B2 Apparatus and method for secure hash algorithm Electricity 10 Active
US7392400B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for optimizing block cipher cryptographic functions Electricity 8 Expired
US9967092B2 Key expansion logic using decryption key primitives Electricity 7 Active
US7925891B2 Apparatus and method for employing cryptographic functions to generate a message digest Electricity 7 Active
US7664810B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for modular exponentiation Physics 5 Active
US9798898B2 Microprocessor with secure execution mode and store key instructions Electricity 4 Active
US9911008B2 Microprocessor with on-the-fly switching of decryption keys Electricity 4 Active
US7542566B2 Apparatus and method for performing transparent cipher block chaining mode cryptographic functions Electricity 3 Active
US7139785B2 Apparatus and method for reducing sequential bit correlation in a random number generator Physics 3 Expired
US9892283B2 Decryption of encrypted instructions using keys selected on basis of instruction fetch address Electricity 3 Active
US7519833B2 Microprocessor apparatus and method for enabling configurable data block size in a cryptographic engine Electricity 3 Expired
US8060755B2 Apparatus and method for providing user-generated key schedule in a microprocessor cryptographic engine Electricity 3 Active
US8296345B2 Microprocessor with selectively available random number generator based on self-test result Physics 2 Active
US8719589B2 Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between multiple encrypted programs having different associated decryption key values Electricity 2 Active
US7529367B2 Apparatus and method for performing transparent cipher feedback mode cryptographic functions Electricity 2 Active
US7165084B2 Microprocessor with selectivity available random number generator based on self-test result Physics 2 Expired

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