William E. Burky
39Patents
14h-index
59Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 20, 1993 → Feb 8, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8108655B2 | Selecting fixed-point instructions to issue on load-store unit | Physics | 146 | Active |
| US7290261B2 | Method and logical apparatus for rename register reallocation in a simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processor | Physics | 86 | Expired |
| US7155600B2 | Method and logical apparatus for switching between single-threaded and multi-threaded execution states in a simultaneous multi-threaded (SMT) processor | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US7711929B2 | Method and system for tracking instruction dependency in an out-of-order processor | Physics | 58 | Active |
| US8041928B2 | Information handling system with real and virtual load/store instruction issue queue | Physics | 43 | Active |
| US7472258B2 | Dynamically shared group completion table between multiple threads | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US5502732A | Method for testing ECC logic | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US8103852B2 | Information handling system including a processor with a bifurcated issue queue | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US6748493B1 | Method and apparatus for managing memory operations in a data processing system using a store buffer | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6275918A | Obtaining load target operand pre-fetch address from history table information upon incremented number of access indicator threshold | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5446845A | Steering logic to directly connect devices having different data word widths | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7669038B2 | Method and apparatus for back to back issue of dependent instructions in an out of order issue queue | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US6430680B1 | Processor and method of prefetching data based upon a detected stride | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US9489207B2 | Processor and method for partially flushing a dispatched instruction group including a mispredicted branch | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US7015718B2 | Register file apparatus and method for computing flush masks in a multi-threaded processing system | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7506139B2 | Method and apparatus for register renaming using multiple physical register files and avoiding associative search | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7010750B2 | Method, program product, and processing system for performing object editing through implicit object selection | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7194603B2 | SMT flush arbitration | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7469407B2 | Method for resource balancing using dispatch flush in a simultaneous multithread processor | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8033345B1 | Apparatus and method for a drilling assembly | Fixed Constructions | 8 | Active |
| US7213135B2 | Method using a dispatch flush in a simultaneous multithread processor to resolve exception conditions | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7769986B2 | Method and apparatus for register renaming | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US7991979B2 | Issuing load-dependent instructions in an issue queue in a processing unit of a data processing system | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7363625B2 | Method for changing a thread priority in a simultaneous multithread processor | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7660971B2 | Method and system for dependency tracking and flush recovery for an out-of-order microprocessor | Physics | 4 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.