Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

William E. Weihl

40Patents
25h-index
34Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 10, 1997 → Sep 6, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7127713B2 Java application framework for use in a content delivery network (CDN) Electricity 258 Expired
US7765304B2 Managing web tier session state objects in a content delivery network (CDN) Physics 183 Active
US6549930B1 Method for scheduling threads in a multithreaded processor Physics 174 Expired
US7752258B2 Dynamic content assembly on edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network Physics 166 Expired
US7254634B1 Managing web tier session state objects in a content delivery network (CDN) Physics 151 Expired
US8423662B1 Forward request queuing in a distributed edge processing environment Electricity 131 Active
US6070009A Method for estimating execution rates of program execution paths Physics 131 Expired
US7111057B1 Method and system for purging content from a content delivery network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 128 Expired
US6000044A Apparatus for randomly sampling instructions in a processor pipeline Physics 115 Expired
US5809450A Method for estimating statistics of properties of instructions processed by a processor pipeline Physics 110 Expired
US5964867A Method for inserting memory prefetch operations based on measured latencies in a program optimizer Physics 110 Expired
US5796939A High frequency sampling of processor performance counters Physics 106 Expired
US5857097A Method for identifying reasons for dynamic stall cycles during the execution of a program Physics 98 Expired
US6092180A Method for measuring latencies by randomly selected sampling of the instructions while the instruction are executed Physics 83 Expired
US6374367B1 Apparatus and method for monitoring a computer system to guide optimization Physics 73 Expired
US5923872A Apparatus for sampling instruction operand or result values in a processor pipeline Physics 68 Expired
US6119075A Method for estimating statistics of properties of interactions processed by a processor pipeline Physics 65 Expired
US6163840A Method and apparatus for sampling multiple potentially concurrent instructions in a processor pipeline Physics 65 Expired
US6009514A Computer method and apparatus for analyzing program instructions executing in a computer system Physics 61 Expired
US6112317A Processor performance counter for sampling the execution frequency of individual instructions Physics 56 Expired
US6202127A Apparatus for spatial and temporal sampling in a computer memory system Physics 53 Expired
US6195748A Apparatus for sampling instruction execution information in a processor pipeline Physics 52 Expired
US6237073A Method for providing virtual memory to physical memory page mapping in a computer operating system that randomly samples state information Physics 47 Expired
US8392912B2 Java application framework for use in a content delivery network (CDN) Electricity 45 Active
US6332178A Method for estimating statistics of properties of memory system transactions Physics 33 Expired

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