Patents by Inventor Mike Upton

Mike 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 handling locks
    Publication number: 20050216673
    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 17, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Harish Kumar, Aravindh Baktha, Mike Upton, KS Venkatraman, Herbert Hum, Zhongying Zhang