Patents by Inventor Cary Robins

Cary Robins 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).

  • Publication number: 20200311859
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. In some aspects, multiple processing units can be in a graphics processing pipeline of a GPU. The apparatus can also group the multiple processing units into one or more processing unit clusters. In some aspects, each of the one or more processing unit clusters can correspond to one or more context registers. Additionally, the apparatus can determine one or more context states of the one or more context registers in each of the one or more processing unit clusters. Also, the apparatus can implement one or more execution counters corresponding to at least one of the one or more processing unit clusters in the graphics processing pipeline, where each of the one or more execution counters includes an execution value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yun DU, Nigel POOLE, Zilin YING, Ling Feng HUANG, Donghyun KIM, Chun YU, Tzun-Wei LEE, Xuefeng TANG, Shambhoo KHANDELWAL, Hongjiang SHANG, Elina KAMENETSKAYA, Zhu LIANG, Cary ROBINS
  • Patent number: 5781745
    Abstract: A computer network system containing a concentrator with a backplane that has a plurality of lines. The backplane contains data lines and control lines for managing and organizing the transfer of data between modules in the concentrator. The system contains intelligent devices that allow the selection of transmitting modules to occur at the same time as actual data transfer is going on between other modules. This is preferably done in a round robin arbitration process where, while data is being transferred by a first module, a bus arbitration device is placing addresses of modules which sequentially follow the transmitting module onto the control lines. Modules will see their address on the control lines, and if they have a packet to transmit, they then reserve the right to transmit after the presently transmitting module is finished. In this way the selection of the next module to transmit is performed in parallel, and does not slow down, the transfer of data between modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: 3Com Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Ramelson, Frank Itkowsky, Peter Driscoll, Cary Robins, Gary Lorenz, Andreas Bovopoulos