Patents by Inventor Brian M. Fahs

Brian M. Fahs 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 structure for monitoring pollution and prefetches due to speculative accesses
    Patent number: 7124254
    Abstract: A method and structure for equipping a cache with information to enable the processor to track and report whether a given speculative access causes prefetches and/or pollutions of the cache. Two types of events are tracked in one of two different ways: first by counting/tracking prefetch operations, either globally or on a per instruction address basis and then by counting/tracking cache pollutions, either globally or on a per instruction address basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian M. Fahs, Sreekumar Nair, Santosh G. Abraham