DR. ROBERT POOL THOMPSON, M.D.
Radiology at Everett Dr, Uhland, TX

4751632, Jun 14, 1988

May 7, 1986

6/861742

David S. Mothersole - Austin TX
Jay A. Hartvigsen - Tempe AZ
Robert R. Thompson - Austin TX

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

G06F 1300

364200

In a data processor adapted to perform operations upon operands of a given size, a bus controller is provided to communicate the operands with a storage device having a data port which may be a submultiple of the operand size. In response to a signal from the bus controller requesting the transfer of an operand of a particular size, the storage device provides a size signal indicating the size of the data port available to accommodate the requested transfer. Depending upon the size of the operand to be transferred and the size of the data port of the storage device, the bus controller may break the operand transfer cycle into several bus cycles in order to completely transfer the operand. In the process, the bus controller compensates for any address misalignment between the operand and the data port. In order to distinguish individual operand cycles from the several bus cycles which may comprise the operand cycle, the bus controller provides an operand cycle start signal only at the start of the first bus cycle of each operand cycle.

4729093, Mar 1, 1988

Mar 4, 1987

7/022613

David S. Mothersole - Austin TX
Mark W. Bluhm - Austin TX
Robert R. Thompson - Austin TX
Douglas B. MacGregor - Austin TX

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

G06F 1318

364200

A microcomputer prioritizes data operand requests and instruction prefetch requests. Such prioritizing is established by established criteria. The established priority is altered upon the occurrence of a signal. The signal indicates a certain type of data requests. This data request type is deemed to have a higher priority than is typical for a data request. Consequently, in response to receiving the signal which indicates this data request type, the priority is altered so as to be more inclined to perform the data request. This is particularly useful when performing numerous consecutive data operations, such as a co-processor interface operation.

4698747, Oct 6, 1987

Jun 28, 1985

6/750396

Robert R. Thompson - Austin TX
David S. Mothersole - Austin TX
Douglas B. MacGregor - Kyoto, JP

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

G06F 1338

364200

An execution unit for a microprocessor comprising a first section for performing arithmetic and logic operations on data, a second section for performing arithmetic operations on data memory addresses, and a third section for performing arithmetic operations on instruction addresses is disclosed in which data addresses and instruction addresses may be simultaneously calculated.

2012000, Jan 5, 2012

Jul 2, 2010

12/829419

Shashidhar Bomma - Cotton Wood Heights UT, US
Robert Wright Thompson - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 12/00

711171, 711E12001

A method enables a user to control the allocation in a file system of file data and metadata blocks by determining ranges of unallocated contiguous blocks in the file system. The method allocates to the user a metadata storage range of contiguous blocks within one of ranges of unallocated contiguous blocks. The method further allocates to the user a data storage range of contiguous blocks within the range of unallocated contiguous blocks. The method may then allocate to the user ranges of contiguous blocks within the allocated data storage range for storage of respective files.

4763253, Aug 9, 1988

Nov 17, 1986

6/931029

Mark W. Bluhm - Austin TX
Robert R. Thompson - Austin TX
David S. Mothersole - Austin TX
Douglas B. MacGregor - Austin TX

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

G06F 938

364200

A microcomputer has the capacity for executing instructions, requesting prefetches of instructions, and experiencing a change in instruction flow, or a branch. The microcomputer also knows in advance that a change in instruction flow is going to occur. At such time that a branch becomes known there may also be a pending instruction prefetch request. Because a branch is going to occur, there is no need to execute the prefetch. Consequently, the pending instruction prefetch is flushed which thus avoids wasting time making an unnecessary instruction prefetch.

8429603, Apr 23, 2013

Mar 25, 2009

12/411018

Robert Wright Thompson - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/44

717111, 717125

Computer program product, apparatus, and data processing system for modifying a computer program. According to one embodiment, a new value to replace a value associated with a virtual type in a computer program is received. The new value is received during execution of the computer program by a processor unit. The replacement of the value by the new value modifies the computer program while the computer program is executed by the processor.

8392386, Mar 5, 2013

Aug 5, 2009

12/535773

Robert W Thompson - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 7/00, G06F 17/00, G06F 12/00, G06F 17/30

707695, 707828, 707830

A method, system, and computer usable program product for tracking file contents are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A content inode corresponding to a content is created, the content being in a file, the file being stored in a computer memory, and the file being locatable using a file system executing under an operating system in a data processing system. An operation, a component, an application, or a combination thereof, is detected operating with respect to the content. A descriptor and a location corresponding to the operation, the component, the application, or the combination thereof, is determined and added to the content inode. A location identifier corresponding to the location is added to the content inode. The content inode with the added descriptor and location identifier enables an application to learn about the operation, the component, the application, or the combination thereof, having operated with respect to the content.