Patents by Inventor Matt Yourst

Matt Yourst 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 apparatus for incremental commitment to architectural state in a microprocessor
    Publication number: 20060112261
    Abstract: Method and hardware apparatus are disclosed for reducing the rollback penalty on exceptions in a microprocessor executing traces of scheduled instructions. Speculative state is committed to the architectural state of the microprocessor at a series of commit points within a trace, rather than committing the state as a single atomic operation at the end of the trace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Matt Yourst, Kanad Ghose