Patents by Inventor Alain Andre

Alain Andre 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: 5319361
    Abstract: A circuit managing numbers of accesses to logic resources, such as buffer memory data cells in a time switching system. The circuit is structured around a counting cell matrix including a synchronous counter storing an instananeous number of accesses relating to a corresponding data cell of the buffer memory. This encoded access number is representative of the number of outgoing multiplex ways from the system to which a data block received on an incoming multiplex way in the system must still be diffused. A given circuit operating cycle includes the loading of a counter by an access number corresponding to a free data cell address supplied by matrix column and row encoders during a cycle preceding the given cycle. This loading is obtained by selecting a column and row by cell-to-be-charged column and row decoders, and by applying the encoded access number to an input bus of the counters in the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Jacques Majos, Alain Andre, Henri Teyssier