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David S. Christie
Also filed as: CHRISTIE DAVID · CHRISTIE DAVID S · CHRISTIE DAVID STEWART
84 granted patents·6 pending applications·4,333 citations·filing 1990–2019
99Inventor score
Files withADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC66CHUNG JAEWOONG4POHLACK MARTIN T4CHRISTIE DAVID S3VETCO GRAY INC3
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90 records- 0197US7012604B1System architecture for high speed ray tracingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 14, 2006·144 cites·23 claims
- 0296US7401358B1Method of controlling access to control registers of a microprocessorADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 15, 2008·118 cites·15 claims
- 0396US7130951B1Method for selectively disabling interrupts on a secure execution mode-capable processorADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 31, 2006·152 cites·26 claims
- 0496US6651163B1Exception handling with reduced overhead in a multithreaded multiprocessing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 18, 2003·147 cites·14 claims
- 0596US5944841AMicroprocessor with built-in instruction tracing capabilityADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 31, 1999·288 cites·22 claims
- 0695US6328343B1Riser dog screw with fail safe mechanismVETCO GRAY INC ABB·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 11, 2001·103 cites·13 claims
- 0794US6877084B1Central processing unit (CPU) accessing an extended register set in an extended register modeADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 5, 2005·106 cites·39 claims
- 0894US6247107B1Chipset configured to perform data-directed prefetchingADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 12, 2001·238 cites·20 claims
- 0993US7318480B2Tubing running equipment for offshore rig with surface blowout preventerVETCO GRAY INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 15, 2008·52 cites·19 claims
- 1093US7165135B1Method and apparatus for controlling interrupts in a secure execution mode-capable processorADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 16, 2007·84 cites·9 claims
- 1192US8739164B2Automatic suspend atomic hardware transactional memory in response to detecting an implicit suspend condition and resume thereofCHUNG JAEWOONG·Filed 2010·Granted May 27, 2014·20 cites·10 claims
- 1290US8621183B2Processor with support for nested speculative sections with different transactional modesHOHMUTH MICHAEL P·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 31, 2013·21 cites·17 claims
- 1390US7130977B1Controlling access to a control register of a microprocessorADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 31, 2006·61 cites·34 claims
- 1490US5632023ASuperscalar microprocessor including flag operand renaming and forwarding apparatusADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1994·Granted May 20, 1997·126 cites·50 claims
- 1589US9110691B2Compiler support technique for hardware transactional memory systemsCHUNG JAEWOONG·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 18, 2015·18 cites·23 claims
- 1689US7513308B2Tubing running equipment for offshore rig with surface blowout preventerVETCO GRAY INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 7, 2009·35 cites·15 claims
- 1789US6757771B2Stack switching mechanism in a computer systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 29, 2004·57 cites·24 claims
- 1889US6574725B1Method and mechanism for speculatively executing threads of instructionsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 3, 2003·145 cites·29 claims
- 1989US5590352ADependency checking and forwarding of variable width operandsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1994·Granted Dec 31, 1996·116 cites·31 claims
- 2088US11954026B1Paging hierarchies for extended page tables and extended page attributesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 9, 2024·5 cites·19 claims
- 2187US8407455B2Coexistence of advanced hardware synchronization and global locksCHRISTIE DAVID S·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 26, 2013·14 cites·17 claims
- 2287US8127057B2Multi-level buffering of transactional dataCHUNG JAEWOONG·Filed 2009·Granted Feb 28, 2012·17 cites·20 claims
- 2387US7496966B1Method and apparatus for controlling operation of a secure execution mode-capable processor in system management modeADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 24, 2009·37 cites·15 claims
- 2487US6076605AHorizontal tree block for subsea wellhead and completion methodVETCO GRAY INC ABB·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 20, 2000·130 cites·20 claims
- 2587US5944816AMicroprocessor configured to execute multiple threads including interrupt service routinesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 31, 1999·144 cites·12 claims
- 2687US5044676ATubular threaded connector joint with separate interfering locking profileABBVETCO GRAY INC·Filed 1990·Granted Sep 3, 1991·145 cites·4 claims
- 2786US8543775B2Preventing unintended loss of transactional data in hardware transactional memory systemsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 24, 2013·8 cites·31 claims
- 2886US8011436B2Through riser installation of tree blockVETCO GRAY INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 6, 2011·35 cites·14 claims
- 2986US7146477B1Mechanism for selectively blocking peripheral device accesses to system memoryADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 5, 2006·44 cites·21 claims
- 3086US7082507B1Method of controlling access to an address translation data structure of a computer systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 25, 2006·44 cites·34 claims
- 3186US6351801B1Program counter update mechanismADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 26, 2002·32 cites·4 claims
- 3285US6785790B1Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving security attributesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 31, 2004·41 cites·28 claims
- 3385US6516395B1System and method for controlling access to a privilege-partitioned address space with a fixed set of attributesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 4, 2003·40 cites·29 claims
- 3485US6185675B1Basic block oriented trace cache utilizing a basic block sequence buffer to indicate program order of cached basic blocksADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 6, 2001·121 cites·27 claims
- 3584US9523259B2Vertical subsea tree annulus and controls accessGE OIL & GAS UK LTD·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 20, 2016·4 cites·18 claims
- 3684US6378023B1Interrupt descriptor cache for a microprocessorADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 23, 2002·37 cites·20 claims
- 3783US7603551B2Initialization of a computer system including a secure execution mode-capable processorADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 13, 2009·35 cites·22 claims
- 3883US5559975AProgram counter update mechanismADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1994·Granted Sep 24, 1996·70 cites·8 claims
- 3982US8195917B2Extended page size using aggregated small pagesHOHMUTH MICHAEL P·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 5, 2012·13 cites·22 claims
- 4082US7100028B2Multiple entry points for system call instructionsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 29, 2006·34 cites·52 claims
- 4182US6154818ASystem and method of controlling access to privilege partitioned address space for a model specific register fileADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 28, 2000·99 cites·32 claims
- 4282US6151662AData transaction typing for improved caching and prefetching characteristicsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 21, 2000·100 cites·28 claims
- 4382US5796974AMicrocode patching apparatus and methodADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 18, 1998·104 cites·31 claims
- 4480US6157996AProcessor programably configurable to execute enhanced variable byte length instructions including predicated execution, three operand addressing, and increased register spaceADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 5, 2000·95 cites·22 claims
- 4579US10956163B2Processor support for hardware transactional memoryADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 23, 2021·2 cites·8 claims
- 4678US7603550B2Computer system including a secure execution mode-capable CPU and a security services processor connected via a secure communication pathADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 13, 2009·19 cites·24 claims
- 4778US6009512AMechanism for forwarding operands based on predicated instructionsADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 28, 1999·81 cites·22 claims
- 4878US5822778AMicroprocessor and method of using a segment override prefix instruction field to expand the register fileADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 13, 1998·82 cites·14 claims
- 4976US8157015B2Large bore vertical treeVOSS ROBERT K·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 17, 2012·16 cites·11 claims
- 5076US6456891B1System and method for transparent handling of extended register statesADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 24, 2002·71 cites·43 claims
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