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Kevin Normoyle
Also filed as: NORMOYLE KEVIN · NORMOYLE KEVIN B
51 granted patents·3 pending applications·2,625 citations·filing 1985–2025
99Inventor score
Files withSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC28AZUL SYSTEMS INC8ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC7ASARO ANTHONY5ONESTA IP LLC2
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54 records- 0197US7337339B1Multi-level power monitoring, filtering and throttling at local blocks and globallyAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 26, 2008·126 cites·17 claims
- 0296US7437597B1Write-back cache with different ECC codings for clean and dirty lines with refetching of uncorrectable clean linesAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 14, 2008·71 cites·16 claims
- 0396US7398449B1Encoding 64-bit data nibble error correct and cyclic-redundancy code (CRC) address error detect for use on a 76-bit memory moduleAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 8, 2008·49 cites·12 claims
- 0496US5655100ATransaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction execution in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 5, 1997·288 cites·10 claims
- 0595US7376800B1Speculative multiaddress atomicityAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted May 20, 2008·54 cites·28 claims
- 0695US7332929B1Wide-scan on-chip logic analyzer with global trigger and interleaved SRAM capture buffersAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 19, 2008·61 cites·20 claims
- 0795US7203890B1Address error detection by merging a polynomial-based CRC code of address bits with two nibbles of data or data ECC bitsAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 10, 2007·116 cites·20 claims
- 0892US7366847B2Distributed cache coherence at scalable requestor filter pipes that accumulate invalidation acknowledgements from other requestor filter pipes using ordering messages from central snoop tagAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 29, 2008·31 cites·20 claims
- 0992US5905998ATransaction activation processor for controlling memory transaction processing in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted May 18, 1999·176 cites·8 claims
- 1091US9448930B2Memory heaps in a memory model for a unified computing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 20, 2016·5 cites·20 claims
- 1189US7552302B1Ordering operationAZUL SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 23, 2009·14 cites·31 claims
- 1289US5644753AFast, dual ported cache controller for data processors in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jul 1, 1997·164 cites·7 claims
- 1388US11741019B2Memory pools in a memory model for a unified computing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 29, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 1488US8099651B2Subsystem and method for encoding 64-bit data nibble error correct and cyclic-redundancy code (CRC) address error detect for use in a 76-bit memory moduleNORMOYLE KEVIN B·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 17, 2012·23 cites·6 claims
- 1587US5634068APacket switched cache coherent multiprocessor systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted May 27, 1997·147 cites·11 claims
- 1687US4939638ATime sliced vector processingSTELLAR COMPUTER·Filed 1988·Granted Jul 3, 1990·143 cites·8 claims
- 1785US5692197AMethod and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a computer network without sacrificing performanceSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 25, 1997·126 cites·17 claims
- 1885US2025321899A1Memory pools in a memory model for a unified computing systemONESTA IP LLC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 1982US5884100ALow-latency, high-throughput, integrated cache coherent I/O system for a single-chip processorSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 16, 1999·108 cites·10 claims
- 2081US11119944B2Memory pools in a memory model for a unified computing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 14, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 2181US9116809B2Memory heaps in a memory model for a unified computing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 25, 2015·3 cites·25 claims
- 2281US5684977AWriteback cancellation processing system for use in a packet switched cache coherent multiprocessor systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 4, 1997·104 cites·4 claims
- 2380US12360918B2Memory pools in a memory model for a unified computing systemONESTA IP LLC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 15, 2025·0 cites·19 claims
- 2480US5892957AMethod and apparatus for interrupt communication in packet-switched microprocessor-based computer systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 6, 1999·81 cites·20 claims
- 2579US5657472AMemory transaction execution system and method for multiprocessor system having independent parallel transaction queues associated with each processorSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 12, 1997·95 cites·13 claims
- 2678US9965392B2Managing coherent memory between an accelerated processing device and a central processing unitADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2016·Granted May 8, 2018·2 cites·12 claims
- 2776US6535966B1System and method for using a page tracking buffer to reduce main memory latency in a computer systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 18, 2003·25 cites·8 claims
- 2876US6477622B1Simplified writeback handlingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 5, 2002·22 cites·18 claims
- 2975US6496917B1Method to reduce memory latencies by performing two levels of speculationSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 17, 2002·26 cites·19 claims
- 3074US5893153AMethod and apparatus for preventing a race condition and maintaining cache coherency in a processor with integrated cache memory and input/output controlSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 6, 1999·67 cites·18 claims
- 3174US5852608AStructure and method for bi-directional data transfer between asynchronous clock domainsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 22, 1998·75 cites·12 claims
- 3273US6446168B1Method and apparatus for dynamically switching a cache between direct-mapped and 4-way set associativitySUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 3, 2002·18 cites·21 claims
- 3373US5689713AMethod and apparatus for interrupt communication in a packet-switched computer systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 18, 1997·59 cites·20 claims
- 3467US5706463ACache coherent computer system that minimizes invalidation and copyback operationsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 6, 1998·51 cites·19 claims
- 3566US5987081AMethod and apparatus for a testable high frequency synchronizerSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 16, 1999·49 cites·19 claims
- 3665US5070475AFloating point unit interfaceDATA GENERAL CORP·Filed 1985·Granted Dec 3, 1991·34 cites·12 claims
- 3764US10324860B2Memory heaps in a memory model for a unified computing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 18, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 3862US9430391B2Managing coherent memory between an accelerated processing device and a central processing unitASARO ANTHONY·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 30, 2016·1 cites·18 claims
- 3962US5761708AApparatus and method to speculatively initiate primary memory accessesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 2, 1998·42 cites·14 claims
- 4061US8935475B2Cache management for memory operationsASARO ANTHONY·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 13, 2015·1 cites·20 claims
- 4161US5710891APipelined distributed bus arbitration systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jan 20, 1998·35 cites·5 claims
- 4259US5907485AMethod and apparatus for flow control in packet-switched computer systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted May 25, 1999·36 cites·21 claims
- 4359US2016371197A1Memory heaps in a memory model for a unified computing systemADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 4458US4949247ASystem for transferring multiple vector data elements to and from vector memory in a single operationSTELLAR COMPUTER·Filed 1988·Granted Aug 14, 1990·26 cites·9 claims
- 4557US6900674B2Method and circuitry for phase align detection in multi-clock domainSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 31, 2005·7 cites·39 claims
- 4651US6553435B1DMA transfer method for a system including a single-chip processor with a processing core and a device interface in different clock domainsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 22, 2003·23 cites·18 claims
- 4747US9009419B2Shared memory space in a unified memory modelASARO ANTHONY·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 14, 2015·0 cites·26 claims
- 4847US8984511B2Visibility ordering in a memory model for a unified computing systemASARO ANTHONY·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 17, 2015·0 cites·18 claims
- 4945US7143304B2Method and apparatus for enhancing the speed of a synchronous busSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 28, 2006·0 cites·28 claims
- 5044US5862356APipelined distributed bus arbitration systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 19, 1999·14 cites·10 claims
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