Patents by Inventor Marc Orr

Marc Orr 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).

  • Pruning of low power state information for a processor
    Patent number: 9746908
    Abstract: A processor prunes state information based on information provided by software, thereby reducing the amount of state information to be stored prior to the processor entering a low-power state. The software, such as an operating system or application program executing at the processor, indicates one or more registers of the processor as storing data that is no longer useful. When preparing to enter the low-power state, the processor omits the indicated registers from the state information stored to memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuko Eckert, Derek Hower, Marc Orr
  • PRUNING OF LOW POWER STATE INFORMATION FOR A PROCESSOR
    Publication number: 20160246360
    Abstract: A processor prunes state information based on information provided by software, thereby reducing the amount of state information to be stored prior to the processor entering a low-power state. The software, such as an operating system or application program executing at the processor, indicates one or more registers of the processor as storing data that is no longer useful. When preparing to enter the low-power state, the processor omits the indicated registers from the state information stored to memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuko Eckert, Derek Hower, Marc Orr