Patents by Inventor Kenneth B. Oliver

Kenneth B. Oliver 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).

  • Data recovery method and apparatus
    Patent number: 6907096
    Abstract: In order to recover phase information, data transmitted at a first frequency is over-sampled using a clock at a second frequency, n times per bit time to obtain n samples. The n samples are used to detect the transitions between two logic levels in said transmitted data which are stored in groups of m sets of said n edge results which are, in turn output at a clock frequency which is the second frequency divided by m, for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan C. Lueker, Dean Warren, Kenneth B. Oliver
  • Testing a bus using bus specific instructions
    Patent number: 6904480
    Abstract: A system for generating transactions on a bus includes at least one instruction memory storing predefined bus stimuli instructions and at least one phase generator coupled between the bus and the instruction memory for providing signals to the bus in response to the instruction memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: William A. Hobbs, Doug Boyce, Kenneth B. Oliver, Pierre M. Brasseur
  • Arrangements for out-of-order queue cache coherency and memory write starvation prevention
    Patent number: 6738869
    Abstract: Arrangements for maintaining out-of-order queue cache coherency and for prevention of memory write starvation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Moran, Thomas C. Brown, Kenneth B. Oliver
  • Bus patcher
    Patent number: 6463554
    Abstract: An apparatus including a protocol watcher adapted for use with a bus, a state machine adapted to detect known bug signatures on the bus, and a perturber adapted to intervene on the bus to prevent occurrence of bugs having those signatures. A system utilizing such includes a bus, a first agent coupled to the bus, a second agent coupled to the bus for communicating to the first agent according to a bus protocol, and the bus patcher coupled to the bus for monitoring a communication from the second agent to the first agent to identify an event which would cause an error in the apparatus, and for modifying the communication such that the event is avoided. Any of the protocol watcher, state machine, and/or perturber may be programmable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald A Budelman, William A. Hobbs, Stephen J. Peters, Tsvika Kurts, Nitin V. Sarangdhar, Kenneth B. Oliver
  • Bus patcher
    Patent number: 5819027
    Abstract: An apparatus including a protocol watcher adapted for use with a bus, a state machine adapted to detect known bug signatures on the bus, and a perturber adapted to intervene on the bus to prevent occurrence of bugs having those signatures. A system utilizing such includes a bus, a first agent coupled to the bus, a second agent coupled to the bus for communicating to the first agent according to a bus protocol, and the bus patcher coupled to the bus for monitoring a communication from the second agent to the first agent to identify an event which would cause an error in the apparatus, and for modifying the communication such that the event is avoided. Any of the protocol watcher, state machine, and/or perturber may be programmable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald A. Budelman, William A. Hobbs, Stephen J. Peters, Tsvika Kurts, Nitin V. Sarangdhar, Kenneth B. Oliver