Patents by Inventor Ashley Sutcliffe

Ashley Sutcliffe 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).

  • System, method and article of manufacture for controlling peripherals and processing data on a system having no dedicated storage program and no central processing unit.
    Publication number: 20030033514
    Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for processing data and controlling peripheral hardware. A first Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) of a reconfigurable logic device is initiated. The first FPGA is configured with programming functionality for programming a second FPGA of the logic device in accordance with reconfiguration data. The reconfiguration data for configuring the second FPGA is retrieved. The first FPGA utilizes the reconfiguration data for programming the second FPGA to run an application. The first FPGA also utilizes the reconfiguration data for programming the second FPGA to control peripheral hardware incident to running the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: John Appleby-Allis, Ashley Sutcliffe