Inventor · Austin, TX, US

William E. Burky

39Patents
14h-index
59Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 20, 1993 → Feb 8, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.