Brent Bean

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Austin, TX, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Branch density detection for prefetcher
- Patent number 11,567,776
- Issue date Jan 31, 2023
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for waking a single core of a multi-core micro...
- Patent number 10,108,431
- Issue date Oct 23, 2018
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires
- Patent number 10,078,581
- Issue date Sep 18, 2018
- VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires
- Patent number 10,067,875
- Issue date Sep 4, 2018
- VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Key expansion logic using decryption key primitives
- Patent number 9,967,092
- Issue date May 8, 2018
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor with on-the-fly switching of decryption keys
- Patent number 9,911,008
- Issue date Mar 6, 2018
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Decryption of encrypted instructions using keys selected on basis o...
- Patent number 9,892,283
- Issue date Feb 13, 2018
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor using compressed and uncompressed microcode storage
- Patent number 9,830,155
- Issue date Nov 28, 2017
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...
- Patent number 9,798,670
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...
- Patent number 9,798,675
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor with secure execution mode and store key instructions
- Patent number 9,798,898
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...
- Patent number 9,798,669
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...
- Patent number 9,792,216
- Issue date Oct 17, 2017
- VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Single core wakeup multi-core synchronization mechanism
- Patent number 9,507,404
- Issue date Nov 29, 2016
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Uncore microcode ROM
- Patent number 9,483,263
- Issue date Nov 1, 2016
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method for encrypting a program for subsequent execution by a micro...
- Patent number 9,461,818
- Issue date Oct 4, 2016
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor with compressed and uncompressed microcode memories
- Patent number 9,372,696
- Issue date Jun 21, 2016
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Selectively compressed microcode
- Patent number 9,361,097
- Issue date Jun 7, 2016
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between encrypted an...
- Patent number 8,886,960
- Issue date Nov 11, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor that securely decrypts and executes encrypted instru...
- Patent number 8,880,902
- Issue date Nov 4, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus for generating a decryption key for use to decrypt a bloc...
- Patent number 8,850,229
- Issue date Sep 30, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between multiple enc...
- Patent number 8,719,589
- Issue date May 6, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Switch key instruction in a microprocessor that fetches and decrypt...
- Patent number 8,700,919
- Issue date Apr 15, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between encrypted an...
- Patent number 8,683,225
- Issue date Mar 25, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor that fetches and decrypts encrypted instructions in...
- Patent number 8,671,285
- Issue date Mar 11, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Branch target address cache for predicting instruction decryption k...
- Patent number 8,645,714
- Issue date Feb 4, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Branch and switch key instruction in a microprocessor that fetches...
- Patent number 8,639,945
- Issue date Jan 28, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Pipelined microprocessor with fast conditional branch instructions...
- Patent number 8,635,437
- Issue date Jan 21, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Pipelined microprocessor with fast non-selective correct conditiona...
- Patent number 8,521,996
- Issue date Aug 27, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor with fast execution of call and return instructions
- Patent number 8,423,751
- Issue date Apr 16, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
BRANCH DENSITY DETECTION FOR PREFETCHER
- Publication number 20220137974
- Publication date May 5, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PROCESSOR WITH INSTRUCTION CACHE THAT PERFORMS ZERO CLOCK RETIRES
- Publication number 20180137042
- Publication date May 17, 2018
- VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- BRENT BEAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PROCESSOR WITH INSTRUCTION CACHE THAT PERFORMS ZERO CLOCK RETIRES
- Publication number 20180137056
- Publication date May 17, 2018
- VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- BRENT BEAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...
- Publication number 20170308477
- Publication date Oct 26, 2017
- VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- BRENT BEAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...
- Publication number 20170308481
- Publication date Oct 26, 2017
- VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- BRENT BEAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...
- Publication number 20170308475
- Publication date Oct 26, 2017
- VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- BRENT BEAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...
- Publication number 20170308476
- Publication date Oct 26, 2017
- VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- BRENT BEAN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SINGLE-CORE WAKEUP MULTI-CORE SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM
- Publication number 20170003707
- Publication date Jan 5, 2017
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR USING COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED MICROCODE STORAGE
- Publication number 20160239303
- Publication date Aug 18, 2016
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR WITH SECURE EXECUTION MODE AND STORE KEY INSTRUCTIONS
- Publication number 20160104010
- Publication date Apr 14, 2016
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DECRYPTION OF ENCRYPTED INSTRUCTIONS USING KEYS SELECTED ON BASIS O...
- Publication number 20160104009
- Publication date Apr 14, 2016
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR WITH ON-THE-FLY SWITCHING OF DECRYPTION KEYS
- Publication number 20160104011
- Publication date Apr 14, 2016
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
KEY EXPANSION LOGIC USING DECRYPTION KEY PRIMITIVES
- Publication number 20160105282
- Publication date Apr 14, 2016
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR WITH COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED MICROCODE MEMORIES
- Publication number 20150113250
- Publication date Apr 23, 2015
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SELECTIVELY COMPRESSED MICROCODE
- Publication number 20150113253
- Publication date Apr 23, 2015
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SINGLE-CORE WAKEUP MULTI-CORE SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM
- Publication number 20150067214
- Publication date Mar 5, 2015
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
UNCORE MICROCODE ROM
- Publication number 20140297993
- Publication date Oct 2, 2014
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR THAT SECURELY DECRYPTS AND EXECUTES ENCRYPTED INSTRU...
- Publication number 20140195822
- Publication date Jul 10, 2014
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DECRYPTION KEY FOR USE TO DECRYPT A BLOC...
- Publication number 20140195820
- Publication date Jul 10, 2014
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING A PROGRAM FOR SUBSEQUENT EXECUTION BY A MICRO...
- Publication number 20140195821
- Publication date Jul 10, 2014
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR THAT FACILITATES TASK SWITCHING BETWEEN ENCRYPTED AN...
- Publication number 20140195823
- Publication date Jul 10, 2014
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
U-SHAPED SHELF
- Publication number 20120223038
- Publication date Sep 6, 2012
- Brent Bean
- A47 - FURNITURE DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES COFFEE MILLS SPICE MILLS SUCT...
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR THAT FETCHES AND DECRYPTS ENCRYPTED INSTRUCTIONS IN...
- Publication number 20120096282
- Publication date Apr 19, 2012
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SWITCH KEY INSTRUCTION IN A MICROPROCESSOR THAT FETCHES AND DECRYPT...
- Publication number 20110296202
- Publication date Dec 1, 2011
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BRANCH AND SWITCH KEY INSTRUCTION IN A MICROPROCESSOR THAT FETCHES...
- Publication number 20110296203
- Publication date Dec 1, 2011
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR THAT FACILITATES TASK SWITCHING BETWEEN MULTIPLE ENC...
- Publication number 20110296205
- Publication date Dec 1, 2011
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR THAT FACILITATES TASK SWITCHING BETWEEN ENCRYPTED AN...
- Publication number 20110296204
- Publication date Dec 1, 2011
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BRANCH TARGET ADDRESS CACHE FOR PREDICTING INSTRUCTION DECRYPTION K...
- Publication number 20110296206
- Publication date Dec 1, 2011
- VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION IN-ORDER RETIRE MICROPROCESSOR WITH BRANCH I...
- Publication number 20110016292
- Publication date Jan 20, 2011
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MICROPROCESSOR WITH FAST EXECUTION OF CALL AND RETURN INSTRUCTIONS
- Publication number 20100228950
- Publication date Sep 9, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Branch density detection for prefetcher

Method and apparatus for waking a single core of a multi-core micro...

Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires

Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires

Key expansion logic using decryption key primitives

Microprocessor with on-the-fly switching of decryption keys

Decryption of encrypted instructions using keys selected on basis o...

Microprocessor using compressed and uncompressed microcode storage

System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...

System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...

Microprocessor with secure execution mode and store key instructions

System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...

System and method of determining memory ownership on cache line bas...

Single core wakeup multi-core synchronization mechanism

Uncore microcode ROM

Method for encrypting a program for subsequent execution by a micro...

Microprocessor with compressed and uncompressed microcode memories

Selectively compressed microcode

Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between encrypted an...

Microprocessor that securely decrypts and executes encrypted instru...

Apparatus for generating a decryption key for use to decrypt a bloc...

Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between multiple enc...

Switch key instruction in a microprocessor that fetches and decrypt...

Microprocessor that facilitates task switching between encrypted an...

Microprocessor that fetches and decrypts encrypted instructions in...

Branch target address cache for predicting instruction decryption k...

Branch and switch key instruction in a microprocessor that fetches...

Pipelined microprocessor with fast conditional branch instructions...

Pipelined microprocessor with fast non-selective correct conditiona...

Microprocessor with fast execution of call and return instructions

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

BRANCH DENSITY DETECTION FOR PREFETCHER

PROCESSOR WITH INSTRUCTION CACHE THAT PERFORMS ZERO CLOCK RETIRES

PROCESSOR WITH INSTRUCTION CACHE THAT PERFORMS ZERO CLOCK RETIRES

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MEMORY OWNERSHIP ON CACHE LINE BAS...

SINGLE-CORE WAKEUP MULTI-CORE SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM

MICROPROCESSOR USING COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED MICROCODE STORAGE

MICROPROCESSOR WITH SECURE EXECUTION MODE AND STORE KEY INSTRUCTIONS

DECRYPTION OF ENCRYPTED INSTRUCTIONS USING KEYS SELECTED ON BASIS O...

MICROPROCESSOR WITH ON-THE-FLY SWITCHING OF DECRYPTION KEYS

KEY EXPANSION LOGIC USING DECRYPTION KEY PRIMITIVES

MICROPROCESSOR WITH COMPRESSED AND UNCOMPRESSED MICROCODE MEMORIES

SELECTIVELY COMPRESSED MICROCODE

SINGLE-CORE WAKEUP MULTI-CORE SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISM

UNCORE MICROCODE ROM

MICROPROCESSOR THAT SECURELY DECRYPTS AND EXECUTES ENCRYPTED INSTRU...

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DECRYPTION KEY FOR USE TO DECRYPT A BLOC...

METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING A PROGRAM FOR SUBSEQUENT EXECUTION BY A MICRO...

MICROPROCESSOR THAT FACILITATES TASK SWITCHING BETWEEN ENCRYPTED AN...

U-SHAPED SHELF

MICROPROCESSOR THAT FETCHES AND DECRYPTS ENCRYPTED INSTRUCTIONS IN...

SWITCH KEY INSTRUCTION IN A MICROPROCESSOR THAT FETCHES AND DECRYPT...

BRANCH AND SWITCH KEY INSTRUCTION IN A MICROPROCESSOR THAT FETCHES...

MICROPROCESSOR THAT FACILITATES TASK SWITCHING BETWEEN MULTIPLE ENC...

MICROPROCESSOR THAT FACILITATES TASK SWITCHING BETWEEN ENCRYPTED AN...

BRANCH TARGET ADDRESS CACHE FOR PREDICTING INSTRUCTION DECRYPTION K...

OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION IN-ORDER RETIRE MICROPROCESSOR WITH BRANCH I...

MICROPROCESSOR WITH FAST EXECUTION OF CALL AND RETURN INSTRUCTIONS