Patents by Inventor Jean Shann

Jean Shann 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).

  • Publication number: 20070130450
    Abstract: A system and method for unnecessary dynamic branch prediction elimination in a processor with a dynamic branch predictor, includes a branch distance generation module for generating a branch distance between two consecutive branch instructions, a branch distance table for storing the branch distance generated by the branch distance generation module, and a dynamic branch predictor enabling module for determining enable or disable the dynamic branch prediction by using the branch distances stored in the branch distance table for the next incoming instructions. Through the configuration of the system, the dynamic branch prediction is performed only for branch instruction, so as to save power consumption due to unnecessary dynamic branch predictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Wei-Hau Chiao, Yau-Chong Hu, Chung-Ping Chung, Jean Shann, Chia-Wen Cheng