Patents by Inventor Andrew Gibson Williams

Andrew Gibson Williams 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 processing apparatus having high speed slave store and multi-word instruction buffer
    Patent number: 3949376
    Abstract: Instructions are written in multi-word blocks into an instruction buffer from a slave store, and then scanned sequentially. The instruction buffer is unequally divided, a first part of a block being written into the smaller portion of the buffer during scanning of the larger portion, and the remainder of the block being written into the larger portion during scanning of the smaller portion. Thus, more time is available for an initial write from a block, which is when delays are more likely to occur due to the block having to be fetched from main store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: International Computers Limited
    Inventors: Roger James Ball, Andrew Gibson Williams