Patents by Inventor Franklin Huang

Franklin Huang 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).

  • Throttling prefetching in a processor
    Publication number: 20070204267
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for counting demand accesses of a first thread associated with a prefetch detector to obtain a count value, accumulating the count value with an accumulated count at detector deallocation, and throttling prefetching in the first thread based on an average obtained from the accumulated count. An override mechanism may permit prefetching based on demand accesses associated with a particular prefetch detector. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Cole, Franklin Huang