Patents by Inventor Douglas L. Gabe

Douglas L. Gabe 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).

  • Patent number: 5371876
    Abstract: A computer system wherein a paging technique is used to expand the usable non-volatile memory capacity beyond a fixed address space limitation. The computer system of the preferred embodiment includes a flash memory component for storing non-volatile code and data including a system BIOS in the upper 128K of memory. The useful BIOS memory space is effectively increased while maintaining the address boundary of the upper 128K region. The address space of the non-volatile memory device is logically separated into distinct pages of memory (Pages 1-4). Page 1, Page 3 and Page 4 may be individually swapped into the address space originally occupied by Page 1 (the swappable page area). In the preferred embodiment, Page 2 is held static and thus is not used as a swap area. Each of the swappable pages contain processing logic called swapping logic used during the swapping or paging operation. The swapping logic operates in conjunction with paging hardware to effect the swapping of pages into the swappable page area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Ewertz, Orville H. Christeson, Douglas L. Gabe, Sean T. Murphy