Patents by Inventor Avinash Lingamneni

Avinash Lingamneni 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).

  • Computing device using inexact computing architecture processor
    Patent number: 8589742
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a computer readable medium including software instructions which, when executed by a processor, perform a method, the method including receiving a first method call from an application, wherein the first method call is associated with a first application component; obtaining a first application component error tolerance (ACET) value associated with the first method call; determining, using the first ACET value and a first inexact amount value (IAV) of a first inexact computing architecture (ICA) processor, that the first ICA processor is available to execute the first method call; and processing the first method call using the first ICA processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Krishna V. Palem, Lakshmi Narasimhan Chakrapani, Avinash Lingamneni
  • COMPUTING DEVICE USING INEXACT COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE PROCESSOR
    Publication number: 20110321067
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a computer readable medium including software instructions which, when executed by a processor, perform a method, the method including receiving a first method call from an application, wherein the first method call is associated with a first application component; obtaining a first application component error tolerance (ACET) value associated with the first method call; determining, using the first ACET value and a first inexact amount value (IAV) of a first inexact computing architecture (ICA) Processor (ICA) processor, that the first ICA processor is available to execute the first method call; and processing the first method call using the first ICA processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Krishna V. Palem, Lakshminarasimhan B. Chakrapani, Avinash Lingamneni