Inventor
EBRAHIM ZAHIR
US27 patents
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC
26 patentsUS6154777ANov 28, 2000
System for context-dependent name resolution
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC290 citations99
US5987557ANov 16, 1999
Method and apparatus for implementing hardware protection domains in a system with no memory management unit (MMU)
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC305 citations99
US5905998AMay 18, 1999
Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction processing in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC176 citations99
US5887134AMar 23, 1999
System and method for preserving message order while employing both programmed I/O and DMA operations
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC1,423 citations99
US5878264AMar 2, 1999
Power sequence controller with wakeup logic for enabling a wakeup interrupt handler procedure
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC157 citations99
US5655100AAug 5, 1997
Transaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction execution in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC288 citations99
US5644753AJul 1, 1997
Fast, dual ported cache controller for data processors in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC164 citations99
US5930807AJul 27, 1999
Apparatus and method for fast filtering read and write barrier operations in garbage collection system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC108 citations98
US5692197ANov 25, 1997
Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a computer network without sacrificing performance
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC126 citations98
US5684977ANov 4, 1997
Writeback cancellation processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC104 citations98
US5634068AMay 27, 1997
Packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC147 citations98
US5893121AApr 6, 1999
System and method for swapping blocks of tagged stack entries between a tagged stack cache and an untagged main memory storage
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC97 citations97
US5848423ADec 8, 1998
Garbage collection system and method for locating root set pointers in method activation records
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC100 citations97
US5581729ADec 3, 1996
Parallelized coherent read and writeback transaction processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC121 citations97
US6101565AAug 8, 2000
System for multisized bus coupling in a packet-switched computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC50 citations96
US5892957AApr 6, 1999
Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in packet-switched microprocessor-based computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC81 citations96
US5689713ANov 18, 1997
Method and apparatus for interrupt communication in a packet-switched computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC59 citations96
US5657472AAug 12, 1997
Memory transaction execution system and method for multiprocessor system having independent parallel transaction queues associated with each processor
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC95 citations96
US6381664B1Apr 30, 2002
System for multisized bus coupling in a packet-switched computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC22 citations92
US5907485AMay 25, 1999
Method and apparatus for flow control in packet-switched computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC36 citations92
US5893165AApr 6, 1999
System and method for parallel execution of memory transactions using multiple memory models, including SSO, TSO, PSO and RMO
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC53 citations92
US5710891AJan 20, 1998
Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC35 citations92
US5706463AJan 6, 1998
Cache coherent computer system that minimizes invalidation and copyback operations
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC51 citations91
US5987579ANov 16, 1999
Method and apparatus for quickly initiating memory accesses in a multiprocessor cache coherent computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC14 citations74
US5862356AJan 19, 1999
Pipelined distributed bus arbitration system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC14 citations74
US5737755AApr 7, 1998
System level mechanism for invalidating data stored in the external cache of a processor in a computer system
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC1 citations51