Patents by Inventor Marcus G. A. Verhoeven

Marcus G. A. Verhoeven 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 for reducing the frequency of cache misses in a computer
    Patent number: 6301641
    Abstract: A score is computed of how many cache misses occur for the execution of each of a number of blocks. The score is used as a heuristic in a local search in which an original selection is iteratively replaced each time by a selection that differs from the original selection only by the movement of a single block and that has a lower number of cache misses for the sample of execution than the original selection. Thus a selection of locations for placing instructions of a program in main memory is found that minimizes the number of cache misses that occur for a sample of a typical execution of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus G. A. Verhoeven, Ramon A. W. Clout, Alexander Augusteijn