Patents by Inventor Alan E. Oakes

Alan E. Oakes 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 encoder system
    Patent number: 4715036
    Abstract: An encoding circuit (10) receives data by way of a bus (12) and stores it in one of two read/write memories (22 and 24). An error-correction-code generator (50) generates codes from groups of the stored words, the members of each group being selected in a complicated fashion. In order to supply the words of the groups to the error-correction-code generator (50) in the proper sequence, a read-only memory (40) contains in successively addressed locations the addresses of the words in the intended sequence. The storage of the address sequence in the read-only memory (40) enables the error-correction coding to be generated in real time with a minimum of complicated addressing hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Alan E. Oakes