Patents by Inventor Bill Joy

Bill Joy 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).

  • Mechanism to reduce interprocessor traffic in a shared memory multi-processor computer system
    Patent number: 6044446
    Abstract: A system for reducing query traffic in multi-processor shared memory system utilizes the inclusion of an unshared bit in translation table entries in the address translation system. A query system does not generate queries when the unshared bit indicates that the data has not been shared between the processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bill Joy, Gary Lauterbach