Inventor · Austin, TX, US

William L. Bircher

14Patents
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15Co-inventors
53Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 17, 2006 → May 19, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8484498B2 Method and apparatus for demand-based control of processing node performance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US7526578B2 Option ROM characterization Physics 5 Active
US9110671B2 Idle phase exit prediction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7873754B2 Structure for option ROM characterization Physics 4 Active
US9075609B2 Power controller, processor and method of power management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9904623B2 Early cache prefetching in preparation for exit from idle mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9720487B2 Predicting power management state duration on a per-process basis and modifying cache size based on the predicted duration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8959372B2 Dynamic performance control of processing nodes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9946319B2 Setting power-state limits based on performance coupling and thermal coupling between entities in a computing device Physics 0 Active
US9760145B2 Saving the architectural state of a computing device using sectors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US9317096B2 Performance aware idle power management Physics 0 Active
US9851777B2 Power gating based on cache dirtiness Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US9886326B2 Thermally-aware process scheduling Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US9442557B2 Using a linear prediction to configure an idle state of an entity in a computing device Physics 0 Active

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