Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Zahir Ebrahim

27Patents
22h-index
14Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 31, 1995 → Jun 20, 2000

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5887134A System and method for preserving message order while employing both programmed I/O and DMA operations Physics 1,143 Expired
US5655100A Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction execution in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 275 Expired
US6154777A System for context-dependent name resolution Electricity 223 Expired
US5987557A Method and apparatus for implementing hardware protection domains in a system with no memory management unit (MMU) Physics 203 Expired
US5634068A Packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 119 Expired
US5905998A Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction processing in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 110 Expired
US5644753A Fast, dual ported cache controller for data processors in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 103 Expired
US5581729A Parallelized coherent read and writeback transaction processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 92 Expired
US5684977A Writeback cancellation processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system Physics 88 Expired
US5878264A Power sequence controller with wakeup logic for enabling a wakeup interrupt handler procedure Physics 87 Expired
US5692197A Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a computer network without sacrificing performance Physics 82 Expired
US5657472A Memory transaction execution system and method for multiprocessor system having independent parallel transaction queues associated with each processor Physics 74 Expired
US5893121A System and method for swapping blocks of tagged stack entries between a tagged stack cache and an untagged main memory storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Expired
US5848423A Garbage collection system and method for locating root set pointers in method activation records Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Expired
US5930807A Apparatus and method for fast filtering read and write barrier operations in garbage collection system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Expired
US5892957A Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in packet-switched microprocessor-based computer system Physics 47 Expired
US5689713A Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in a packet-switched computer system Physics 40 Expired
US5970505A Linking related data in a document set including a plurality of books written by different groups of authors in a computer network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US5706463A Cache coherent computer system that minimizes invalidation and copyback operations Physics 35 Expired
US5893165A System and method for parallel execution of memory transactions using multiple memory models, including SSO, TSO, PSO and RMO Physics 33 Expired
US6101565A System for multisized bus coupling in a packet-switched computer system Physics 30 Expired
US5710891A Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system Physics 25 Expired
US5907485A Method and apparatus for flow control in packet-switched computer system Physics 17 Expired
US6381664B1 System for multisized bus coupling in a packet-switched computer system Physics 13 Expired
US5987579A Method and apparatus for quickly initiating memory accesses in a multiprocessor cache coherent computer system Physics 11 Expired

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