Patents by Inventor Edmond H. Yip

Edmond H. Yip 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).

  • Predicting a jump target based on a program counter and state information for a process
    Patent number: 7472264
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that predicts a jump target for a jump instruction. During operation, the system starts fetching the jump instruction while executing a process. Next, the system uses a program counter for the process and uses state information that is specific to the process to look up the jump target for the jump instruction. Finally, the system uses the jump target returned by the lookup as a predicted jump target for the jump instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmond H. Yip, Paul Caprioli, Shailender Chaudhry, Jiejun Lu
  • Dynamically shared high-speed jump target predictor
    Publication number: 20080005545
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that predicts a jump target for a jump instruction. During operation, the system starts fetching the jump instruction while executing a process. Next, the system uses a program counter for the process along with process state information to look up the jump target for the jump instruction. Finally, the system uses the jump target returned by the lookup as a predicted jump target for the jump instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Edmond H. Yip, Paul Caprioli, Shailender Chaudhry, Jiejun Lu