Patents by Inventor Jim Fung

Jim Fung 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).

  • Method and apparatus for dynamically conditioning statically produced load speculation and prefetches using runtime information
    Publication number: 20040117606
    Abstract: The invention provides a method comprising monitoring an indicator indicating a usage of data speculatively loaded by a processor as a result of executing a speculative instruction; and selectively executing said speculative instruction when it is next encountered as an instruction pointer based on said usage. According to another embodiment, the invention provides a processor comprising a monitoring mechanism to monitor an indicator indicating a usage of data speculative loaded by said processor as a result of executing a speculative instruction; and a speculation control mechanism to selectively execute said speculative instruction when it is next encountered at an instruction pointer based on said usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Hong Wang, Rakesh Ghiya, John P. Shen, Ed Grochowski, Jim Fung, David Sehr, Kevin Rudd