Patents by Inventor Daniel Marvin Neal

Daniel Marvin Neal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • PCI/PCI-X bus bridge with performance monitor
    Patent number: 6715011
    Abstract: A bus bridge for use in a data processing system is disclosed in which the bridge includes a primary bus interface coupled to a primary bus, a secondary bus interface coupled to a secondary bus, a performance monitor register; and a state machine connected to the primary and secondary bus interfaces and configured to record the occurrence of a specified event in the performance monitor register. In a host bridge embodiment of the bridge, the primary bus is a host bus of the data processing system and the secondary bus is a PCI bus or PCI-X bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pat Allen Buckland, Daniel Marvin Neal, Steven Mark Thurber