Patents by Inventor José Alejandro Pineiro

José Alejandro Pineiro 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).

  • Communicating Between Multiple Threads In A Processor
    Publication number: 20100005277
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for accessing registers associated with a first thread while executing a second thread. In one such embodiment a method may include preventing an instruction of a first thread that is to access a source operand from a register file of a second thread from executing if a synchronization indicator associated with the source operand indicates incompletion of a producer operation of the second thread, and executing the instruction if the synchronization indicator indicates completion of the producer operation of the second thread. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Enric Gibert, Josep M. Codina, Fernando Latorre, José Alejandro Pineiro, Pedro López, Antonio González