| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7615857 |
Modular three-dimensional chip multiprocessor |
November 10, 2009 |
| A chip multiprocessor die supports optional stacking of additional dies. The chip multiprocessor includes a plurality of processor cores, a memory controller, and stacked cache interface circuitry. The stacked cache interface circuitry is configured to attempt to retrieve data from a |
| 7593546 |
Telepresence system with simultaneous automatic preservation of user height, perspective, and ve |
September 22, 2009 |
| A method for mutually-immersive telepresencing is provided with a view of a surrogate's location. An image of the surrogate's location is displayed at a user's location. A user's eye level and perspective are sensed. The height of the camera and image of the user's eyes at the surrogate' |
| 7587555 |
Program thread synchronization |
September 8, 2009 |
| The present invention is a method of and system for program thread synchronization. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing program threads for one or more processors is provided. An address for data for each of a plurality of program threads to b |
| 7555607 |
Program thread syncronization for instruction cachelines |
June 30, 2009 |
| In a method of and system for program thread synchronization, an instruction cache line is determined each of a plurality of program threads to be synchronized. For each processor executing one or more of the threads to be synchronized, execution of the thread is halted at a barrier |
| 7532785 |
Photonic interconnects for computer system devices |
May 12, 2009 |
| Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic interconnects that can be used for on-chip as well as off-chip communications between computer system components. In one embodiment of the present invention, a photonic interconnect comprises a plurality of on-chip |
| 7388981 |
Telepresence system with automatic preservation of user head size |
June 17, 2008 |
| A method and system for mutually immersive telepresencing are provided. A user is viewed at a user's location to provide a user's image. The size of the user's head is determined in the user's image. A surrogate having a surrogate's face display about the size of the user's head is provi |
| 7324664 |
Method of and system for determining angular orientation of an object |
January 29, 2008 |
| A method of and system for determining the angular orientation of an object, such as a person's head. In one aspect, a plurality of images of the object is obtained. Values are assigned to a plurality of positions in a polar plot using data from the images. A centroid is computed based |
| 7197851 |
Accessible telepresence display booth |
April 3, 2007 |
| A door for a telepresence display booth having improved acoustics comprises a projection screen frame and a projection screen. The projection screen is coupled to the projection screen frame and comprises a trapezoidal surface. A viewing surface of the projection screen is oriented s |
| 6944718 |
Apparatus and method for speculative prefetching after data cache misses |
September 13, 2005 |
| A microprocessor is configured to continue execution in a special Speculative Prefetching After Data Cache Miss (SPAM) mode after a data cache miss is encountered. The microprocessor includes additional registers and program counter, and optionally additional cache memory for use dur |
| 6920376 |
Mutually-immersive mobile telepresence system with user rotation and surrogate translation |
July 19, 2005 |
| A system and method of mobile telepresencing includes providing a surrogate capable of viewing outward and of translational movement, displaying the views outward for a user and sensing rotation of a user in a direction of a view outward and a user translation instruction for causing tra |
| 6889120 |
Mutually-immersive mobile telepresence with gaze and eye contact preservation |
May 3, 2005 |
| A method and system are provided for user and participant telepresencing including viewing a user from a plurality of views to obtain an image of a user, communicating the image of the user to a surrogate, and displaying the image of the user on the surrogate with eye contact between the |
| 6879879 |
Telepresence system with automatic user-surrogate height matching |
April 12, 2005 |
| A method and system for mutually-immersive telepresencing includes determining a height of a user and monitoring a height of an image of the user on an adjustable height surrogate. The method includes transmitting the height of the user and the image of the user, and moving the height of |
| 6665776 |
Apparatus and method for speculative prefetching after data cache misses |
December 16, 2003 |
| A microprocessor is configured to continue execution in a special Speculative Prefetching After Data Cache Miss (SPAM) mode after a data cache miss is encountered. The microprocessor includes additional registers and program counter, and optionally additional cache memory for use dur |
| 5689679 |
Memory system and method for selective multi-level caching using a cache level code |
November 18, 1997 |
| A selective multilevel caching method and system including a main memory and a plurality of cache memories are disclosed. The main memory and cache memories are arranged in a multilevel hierarchy: the main memory is at the lowest hierarchical level; the cache memory that is coupled direc |
