Assignee
MCDONALD THOMAS C
8 granted patents·45 citations·filing 1983–2009
Technology mixG06F7
Top patents by PatentIndex Score
8 records- 0194USD283204SGarden hose water meterMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 1983·Granted Apr 1, 1986·38 cites·1 claims
- 0271US8832418B2Efficient branch target address cache entry replacementMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 9, 2014·5 cites·30 claims
- 0363US8281110B2Out-of-order microprocessor with separate branch information circular queue table tagged by branch instructions in reorder buffer to reduce unnecessary space in bufferMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 2, 2012·2 cites·26 claims
- 0456US8838938B2Prefix accumulation for efficient processing of instructions with multiple prefix bytesMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 16, 2014·0 cites·23 claims
- 0556US8612727B2Apparatus and method for marking start and end bytes of instructions in a stream of instruction bytes in a microprocessor having an instruction set architecture in which instructions may include a length-modifying prefixMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 17, 2013·0 cites·23 claims
- 0656US8473726B2Bad branch prediction detection, marking, and accumulation for faster instruction stream processingMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 25, 2013·0 cites·26 claims
- 0756US8438367B2Instruction extraction through prefix accumulationMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted May 7, 2013·0 cites·23 claims
- 0856US8335910B2Early release of cache data with start/end marks when instructions are only partially presentMCDONALD THOMAS C·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 18, 2012·0 cites·24 claims
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