Patents by Inventor Onno Letanche

Onno Letanche 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).

  • System and method for allowing a current context to change an event sensitivity of a future context
    Patent number: 7434223
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method, operable in a multi-context processor, for allowing a current context to change an event sensitivity of a future context. In one embodiment, the system includes a context control register, accessible to the current context, for receiving event mask data defining the event sensitivity of the future context. The system further includes a context controller, associated with the context control register and invokable from within the current context, that causes the event mask data to be employed in defining a content of an event mask register of the future context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus J. M. Diepstraten, Onno Letanche
  • System and method for allowing a current context to change an event sensitivity of a future context
    Publication number: 20040236930
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method, operable in a multi-context processor, for allowing a current context to change an event sensitivity of a future context. In one embodiment, the system includes a context control register, accessible to the current context, for receiving event mask data defining the event sensitivity of the future context. The system further includes a context controller, associated with the context control register and invokable from within the current context, that causes the event mask data to be employed in defining a content of an event mask register of the future context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: Agere Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus J. M. Diepstraten, Onno Letanche