Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–25 of 26 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9292442 | Methods and apparatus for improving performance of semaphore management sequences across a coherent bus | Thomas Philip Speier, Eric F. Robinson, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, James Norris Dieffenderfer | 2016-03-22 |
| 9286257 | Bus clock frequency scaling for a bus interconnect and related devices, systems, and methods | Richard Gerard Hofmann, Brandon Wayne Lewis | 2016-03-15 |
| 9152595 | Processor-based system hybrid ring bus interconnects, and related devices, processor-based systems, and methods | Mark Michael Schaffer, Prudhvi N. Nooney, Perry Willmann Remaklus, Jr. | 2015-10-06 |
| 9064050 | Arbitrating bus transactions on a communications bus based on bus device health information and related power management | Cristian Duroiu, Vinod Chamarty, Mark Michael Schaffer, Joshua H. Stubbs, Robert N. Gibson +5 more | 2015-06-23 |
| 9026744 | Enforcing strongly-ordered requests in a weakly-ordered processing | Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier, James Norris Dieffenderfer, James Edward Sullivan, Jr. | 2015-05-05 |
| 8966291 | Method and apparatus for reducing dynamic power within system-on-a-chip routing resources | Martyn Ryan Shirlen | 2015-02-24 |
| 8861410 | Method and apparatus for scalable network transaction identifier for interconnects | Prudhvi N. Nooney, Darren Paul Umstead, Joseph L. Van Swearingen, Barry Joe Wolford, Mark Michael Schaffer | 2014-10-14 |
| 7984202 | Device directed memory barriers | Richard Gerard Hofmann, Barry Joe Wolford | 2011-07-19 |
| 7921249 | Weakly ordered processing systems and methods | James Edward Sullivan, Jr., Richard Gerard Hofmann | 2011-04-05 |
| 7917676 | Efficient execution of memory barrier bus commands with order constrained memory accesses | James Edward Sullivan, Jr., Richard Gerard Hofmann | 2011-03-29 |
| 7685373 | Selective snooping by snoop masters to locate updated data | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2010-03-23 |
| 7500045 | Minimizing memory barriers when enforcing strongly-ordered requests in a weakly-ordered processing system | Richard Gerard Hofmann, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier | 2009-03-03 |
| 7421529 | Method and apparatus to clear semaphore reservation for exclusive access to shared memory | Thomas Philip Speier, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius | 2008-09-02 |
| 7395380 | Selective snooping by snoop masters to locate updated data | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2008-07-01 |
| 7395361 | Apparatus and methods for weighted bus arbitration among a plurality of master devices based on transfer direction and/or consumed bandwidth | Mark Michael Schaffer, Richard Gerard Hofmann | 2008-07-01 |
| 7249210 | Bus access arbitration scheme | Richard Gerard Hofmann, Terence J. Lohman | 2007-07-24 |
| 7174403 | Plural bus arbitrations per cycle via higher-frequency arbiter | — | 2007-02-06 |
| 7127562 | Ensuring orderly forward progress in granting snoop castout requests | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2006-10-24 |
| 7089376 | Reducing snoop response time for snoopers without copies of requested data via snoop filtering | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2006-08-08 |
| 7065595 | Method and apparatus for bus access allocation | Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann | 2006-06-20 |
| 6985972 | Dynamic cache coherency snooper presence with variable snoop latency | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2006-01-10 |
| 6976132 | Reducing latency of a snoop tenure | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2005-12-13 |
| 6973520 | System and method for providing improved bus utilization via target directed completion | Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Richard Nicholas Iachetta, Jr., Barry Joe Wolford | 2005-12-06 |
| 6970962 | Transfer request pipeline throttling | James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier +1 more | 2005-11-29 |
| 6907502 | Method for moving snoop pushes to the front of a request queue | Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Bernard C. Drerup, Richard Gerard Hofmann, Thomas Andrew Sartorius +2 more | 2005-06-14 |