Patents by Inventor Hansel Anthony Collins

Hansel Anthony Collins 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: 6031847
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a dynamic skew compensation circuit. The present invention includes a receiver, a plurality of channel inputs built into the receiver, and a delay stack structure coupled to the plurality of channel inputs. The receiver is adapted to accept data from a parallel data transfer cable. The channel inputs couple to each of the individual communications channels which comprise the parallel data transfer cable. The delay stack structure includes a plurality of delay stacks, each coupled to a respective channel input. Each delay stack dynamically selects an additional delay amount for its respective communications channel such that each communications channel of the parallel data transfer cable is deskewed with respect to the others. In so doing, the distances across which data can be received and the speeds at which data is transferred via the parallel data transfer cable is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Silicon Graphics, Inc
    Inventors: Hansel Anthony Collins, Paul Everhardt, David Parry, Greg Chesson