Patents by Inventor Robert Joseph Woodruff

Robert Joseph Woodruff 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to manage cache memory in multi-cache environments
    Patent number: 9952999
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage cache memory in multi-cache environments. A disclosed apparatus includes a remote cache manager to identify a remote cache memory communicatively connected to a bus, a delegation manager to constrain the remote cache memory to share data with a host cache memory via the bus, and a lock manager to synchronize the host cache memory and the remote cache memory with a common lock state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shiow-Wen Cheng, Robert Joseph Woodruff
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE CACHE MEMORY IN MULTI-CACHE ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20150081945
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage cache memory in multi-cache environments. A disclosed apparatus includes a remote cache manager to identify a remote cache memory communicatively connected to a bus, a delegation manager to constrain the remote cache memory to share data with a host cache memory via the bus, and a lock manager to synchronize the host cache memory and the remote cache memory with a common lock state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Shiow-Wen Cheng, Robert Joseph Woodruff