Patents by Inventor Charles Alley

Charles Alley 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: 20070245282
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for using relative positioning of items or components in a structure with dynamic ranges, such as an elastic I/O bus design for an Integrated Circuit (IC), are disclosed. Embodiments may include a user-defined type module having user-defined types representing relative instance positions within a structure. Embodiments may also include a translation helper module to receive information associated with a hierarchy and to return location information associated with the hierarchy and a translation module to translate between a specific location and a relative position of the instance based on one or more user-defined types and location information returned from the translation helper module to generate a list of translated results. Further embodiments of the translation module may include a relative position determiner to translate specific locations to relative positions and may also include a specific location determiner to translate relative positions to specific locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Alley, Robert Likovich, Joseph Mendenhall, Chad Winemiller
  • Publication number: 20060271515
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for reconstructing data from simulation models are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for accessing an alias from an alias file. The method may generally include searching for a net name and, if the net name is not found, searching an alias index file for an alias index entry associated with the net name, the alias index entry having a net name and an associated position. The method may also generally include, if the net name entry is found, accessing from an alias file an alias associated with the net name. A further embodiment of the method may generally include receiving a net name and a position of an alias in the alias file, creating an alias index entry for the alias having a net name and the position of the alias, and storing the created alias index entry in the alias index file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Charles Alley, Anthony Bybell