Patents by Inventor Vanessa Yu-Mei Chou

Vanessa Yu-Mei Chou 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).

  • Method of and circuit for buffering data
    Patent number: 7669017
    Abstract: A method of buffering data in a circuit processing data in both a natural address order and a modified address order is described. The method comprises the steps of storing a first block of data according to a first addressing order of a natural address order or a modified address order; reading the first block of data stored in a buffer according to the other addressing order of the natural address order and the modified address order; and simultaneously writing a second block of data to the buffer in the other addressing order while reading the first block of data stored in a buffer according to the other addressing order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemang Maheshkumar Parekh, Hai-Jo Tarn, Gabor Szedo, Vanessa Yu-Mei Chou, Jeffrey Allan Graham, Elizabeth R. Cowie