Patents by Inventor Mike D. Upton

Mike D. Upton 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 handling locks
    Patent number: 6922745
    Abstract: A method and device for determining an attribute associated with a locked load instruction and selecting a lock protocol based upon the attribute of the locked load instruction. Also disclosed is a method for concurrently executing the respective lock sequences associated with multiple threads of a processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Harish Kumar, Aravindh Baktha, Mike D. Upton, KS Venkatraman, Herbert H. Hum, Zhongying Zhang
  • Method and apparatus for handling locks
    Publication number: 20030208647
    Abstract: A method and device for determining an attribute associated with a locked load instruction and selecting a lock protocol based upon the attribute of the locked load instruction. Also disclosed is a method for concurrently executing the respective lock sequences associated with multiple threads of a processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Harish Kumar, Aravindh Baktha, Mike D. Upton, KS Venkatraman, Herbert H. Hum, Zhongying Zhang