Patents by Inventor Allan Douglas Knies

Allan Douglas Knies has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Way partitioning for a system-level cache
    Patent number: 11620243
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a system-level cache to allocate cache resources by a way-partitioning process. One of the methods includes maintaining a mapping between partitions and priority levels and allocating primary ways to respective enabled partitions in an order corresponding to the respective priority levels assigned to the enabled partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Chamarty, Xiaoyu Ma, Hongil Yoon, Keith Robert Pflederer, Weiping Liao, Benjamin Dodge, Albert Meixner, Allan Douglas Knies, Manu Gulati, Rahul Jagdish Thakur, Jason Rupert Redgrave
  • WAY PARTITIONING FOR A SYSTEM-LEVEL CACHE
    Publication number: 20210255972
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a system-level cache to allocate cache resources by a way-partitioning process. One of the methods includes maintaining a mapping between partitions and priority levels and allocating primary ways to respective enabled partitions in an order corresponding to the respective priority levels assigned to the enabled partitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Vinod Chamarty, Xiaoyu Ma, Hongil Yoon, Keith Robert Pflederer, Weiping Liao, Benjamin Dodge, Albert Meixner, Allan Douglas Knies, Manu Gulati, Rahul Jagdish Thakur, Jason Rupert Redgrave
  • Way partitioning for a system-level cache
    Patent number: 10884959
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a system-level cache to allocate cache resources by a way-partitioning process. One of the methods includes maintaining a mapping between partitions and priority levels and allocating primary ways to respective enabled partitions in an order corresponding to the respective priority levels assigned to the enabled partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Chamarty, Xiaoyu Ma, Hongil Yoon, Keith Robert Pflederer, Weiping Liao, Benjamin Dodge, Albert Meixner, Allan Douglas Knies, Manu Gulati, Rahul Jagdish Thakur, Jason Rupert Redgrave
  • SYSTEM-LEVEL CACHE
    Publication number: 20200257639
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a system-level cache to allocate cache resources by a way-partitioning process. One of the methods includes maintaining a mapping between partitions and priority levels and allocating primary ways to respective enabled partitions in an order corresponding to the respective priority levels assigned to the enabled partitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Vinod Chamarty, Xiaoyu Ma, Hongil Yoon, Keith Robert Pflederer, Weiping Liao, Benjamin Dodge, Albert Meixner, Allan Douglas Knies, Manu Gulati, Rahul Jagdish Thakur, Jason Rupert Redgrave
  • Superword memory-access instructions for data processor
    Patent number: 7680990
    Abstract: Atomic sixteen-byte memory accesses are provided in a 64-bit system in which eight of the bytes are stored in a 64-bit general-purpose register and eight of the bytes are stored in a 64-bit special-purpose register. A 16-byte load instruction transfers the low eight bytes to an explicitly specified general-purpose register, while the high eight bytes are transferred to the special-purpose register. Likewise, a 16-byte store instruction transfers data from a general-purpose register and the special-purpose register. Also provided is an 8-byte compare conditioning a 16-byte exchange semaphore instruction that can be used to accelerate algorithms that use multiple processors to simultaneously read and update large databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Donald C. Soltis, Dale C. Morris, Dean Ahmad Mulla, Achmed Rumi Zahir, Amy Lynn O'Donnell, Allan Douglas Knies
  • Superword memory-access instructions for data processor
    Publication number: 20040243790
    Abstract: Atomic sixteen-byte memory accesses are provided in a 64-bit system in which eight of the bytes are stored in a 64-bit general-purpose register and eight of the bytes are stored in a 64-bit special-purpose register. A 16-byte load instruction transfers the low eight bytes to an explicitly specified general-purpose register, while the high eight bytes are transferred to the special-purpose register. Likewise, a 16-byte store instruction transfers data from a general-purpose register and the special-purpose register. Also provided is an 8-byte compare conditioning a 16-byte exchange semaphore instruction that can be used to accelerate algorithms that use multiple processors to simultaneously read and update large databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Donald C. Soltis, Dale C. Morris, Dean Ahmad Mulla, Achmed Rumi Zahir, Amy Lynn Santoni, Allan Douglas Knies