Patents Examined by Nguyen Quang
  • System and methods for real time progress monitoring in a computer network
    Patent number: 6704782
    Abstract: A method of monitoring data distribution progress in a computer network including a Distribution Manager and an end-user terminal communicating with the Distribution Manager through at least one node in the network. The Distribution Manager generates an identifier associated with the distribution along with a routing to the end-user terminal through the network. The Distribution Manager updates a Distribution State Table, maintaining information describing the progress of the distribution, and a Node State Table, maintaining information describing the status of the node in the network. The distribution data is then sent to the end-user terminal via the selected routing. Data are collected at the node from the end-user terminal describing the status of the end-user terminal and those data are transferred to the Distribution Manager. The Distribution Manager updates the distribution State and Node State Tables with the data received from the Node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Mark Achtermann, Alberto Giammaria, John Conrad Sanchez
  • Microcontroller with a synchronous serial interface and a two-channel DMA unit configured together for providing DMA requests to the first and second DMA channel
    Patent number: 6032204
    Abstract: In a microcontroller, a synchronous serial port is coupled to a DMA unit such that a series of DMA writes to the synchronous serial port can be followed by a series of DMA reads from the synchronous serial port, all without intervention or the execution of the microcontroller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald M. Huff, John P. Hansen