Patents by Inventor Colin B. Hunter

Colin B. Hunter 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).

  • Combining hardware and software to provide an improved microprocessor
    Patent number: 6031992
    Abstract: A microprocessor for a host computer designed to execute target application programs for a target computer having a target instruction set including the combination of code morphing software, and morph host processing hardware designed to execute instructions of a host instruction set, the combination of the code morphing software and the morph host processing hardware comprising means to translate a set of target instructions into instructions of a host instruction set, means to optimize the instructions of the host instruction set translated from the target application program speculating upon the occurrence of a condition, means to determine under control of the code morphing software official state of the target computer which existed at the beginning of a translation of a set of target instructions during execution of the target application program by the microprocessor, means for updating state of the target computer from state of the host computer when a set of host instructions executes in accordance
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Transmeta Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Cmelik, David R. Ditzel, Edmund J. Kelly, Colin B. Hunter, Douglas A. Laird, Malcolm John Wing, Grzegorz B. Zyner