Patents by Inventor Cecil R. Simpson, III

Cecil R. Simpson, III 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).

  • Efficient command delivery and data transfer
    Patent number: 6993599
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method of delivering a command from an initiator device also transfers data identified by the command to a target device. The data is transferred between the initiator device and the target device according to a selected maximum payload size. The method includes determining whether or not the size of the data associated with the command is greater than the selected maximum payload size. If the size of the data associated with the command is not greater than the selected maximum payload size, then a block is transferred to or from the target device which includes the command and all of the data associated with the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Cecil R. Simpson, III
  • Efficient command delivery and data transfer
    Patent number: 6542941
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method of delivering a command from an initiator device also transfers data identified by the command to a target device. The data is transferred between the initiator device and the target device according to a selected maximum payload size. The method includes determining whether or not the size of the data associated with the command is greater than the selected maximum payload size. If the size of the data associated with the command is not greater than the selected maximum payload size, then a block is transferred to or from the target device which includes the command and all of the data associated with the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Cecil R. Simpson, III