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Douglas E. Deao — 16 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 16 patents #836 of 12,488Top 7%
Brookshire, TX: #7 of 98 inventorsTop 8%
Texas: #9,126 of 125,132 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Douglas E. Deao has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in March 2006. Douglas E. Deao ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Douglas E. Deao in Brookshire, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents19992000: 5 patents20002003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents20042005: 2 patents20052006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7020600 Apparatus and method for improvement of communication between an emulator unit and a host device Gary L. Swoboda 2006-03-28 $19,630,000
6931636 Multiprocessor emulation support using dynamic linking Deborah Keil, Robert A. McGowan, Craig McLean, Gary L. Swoboda, Leland Szewerenko 2005-08-16 $16,785,000
6865504 Apparatus and method for a reconfigurable pod interface for use with an emulator unit Lee Larson, Gary L. Swoboda, Roland R. Hoar 2005-03-08 $35,727,000
6775793 Data exchange system and method for processors Deborah Keil, Robert A. McGowan, Craig McLean, Gary L. Swoboda, Leland Szewerenko 2004-08-10 $9,424,000
6738929 Dynamically configurable debug port for concurrent support of debug functions from multiple data processing cores Gary L. Swoboda 2004-05-18 $16,252,000
6658578 Microprocessors Gilbert Laurenti, Jean-Pierre Giacalone, Emmanuel Ego, Anne Lombardot, Francois Theodorou +20 more 2003-12-02 $28,354,000
6112298 Method for managing an instruction execution pipeline during debugging of a data processing system Natarajan Seshan 2000-08-29 $80,547,000
6081885 Method and apparatus for halting a processor and providing state visibility on a pipeline phase basis Natarajan Seshan 2000-06-27 $94,672,000
6065106 Resuming normal execution by restoring without refetching instructions in multi-word instruction register interrupted by debug instructions loading and processing Natarajan Seshan 2000-05-16 $60,212,000
6055649 Processor test port with scan chains and data streaming Natarajan Seshan, Anthony Lell 2000-04-25 $79,783,000
6016555 Non-intrusive software breakpoints in a processor instruction execution pipeline Natarajan Seshan 2000-01-18 $90,176,000
5970241 Maintaining synchronism between a processor pipeline and subsystem pipelines during debugging of a data processing system Natarajan Seshan, Anthony Lell 1999-10-19 $51,280,000
5922070 Pipelined data processing including program counter recycling Gary L. Swoboda, Mark R. Hammes, Keith Balmer, Nick Ing-Simmons 1999-07-13 $78,657,000
5919255 Method and apparatus for processing an interrupt Nat Seshan, Gary L. Swoboda 1999-07-06 $123,162,000
5724566 Pipelined data processing including interrupts Gary L. Swoboda, Mark R. Hammes, Keith Balmer, Nick Ing-Simmons 1998-03-03 $26,017,000
5564028 Pipelined data processing including instruction trace Gary L. Swoboda, Mark R. Hammes 1996-10-08 $8,649,000