Patents by Inventor Jonathan Khazam

Jonathan Khazam 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 system to surpress speculative execution of instructions in a microprocessor
    Patent number: 6988213
    Abstract: During compilation of a computer program, a branch instruction within the computer program is identified as having a characteristic (e.g., as being dependent upon unpredictable data) that influences the accuracy of a branch prediction for the branch instruction. Responsive to this identification, a compiler, again during compilation of the computer program, flags the branch instruction. During execution of the computer program, speculative execution of instructions is suppressed responsive to detection of the flagged branch instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan Khazam
  • Method and apparatus for performing power management by suppressing the speculative execution of instructions within a pipelined microprocessor
    Patent number: 6282663
    Abstract: A method for reducing power consumption within a processor, having branch prediction circuitry, requires detecting the occurrence of a trigger event and then suppressing speculative execution of an instruction within the processor in response to the detection of the trigger event. The trigger event is the transcendence of a predetermined thermal threshold by the operating temperature of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan Khazam