Patents by Inventor Charng-Show Li

Charng-Show Li 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).

  • Adaptive pause time energy efficient ethernet PHY
    Patent number: 9094197
    Abstract: An energy efficient Ethernet physical layer (PHY) device including an EEE control module configured to generate a control signal to transition the PHY device into a low power consumption mode based an operating condition, and a pause frame generator module responsive to the control signals to generate a pause frame. The pause frame generator module is configured to send the pause frame to a media access control (MAC) device to reduce an incoming flow of data packets from the MAC device to the PHY device for a pause time duration. In operation, the pause frame generator module generates the pause frame including a pause time indicating the length of time for the PHY device to be in the low power consumption mode. The value of the pause time for each pause frame is determined adaptively based on the type of data traffic to be transmitted from the PHY device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Micrel, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Chang, Wei-Chi Lo, Charng-Show Li, Menping Chang
  • ADAPTIVE PAUSE TIME ENERGY EFFICIENT ETHERNET PHY
    Publication number: 20150163045
    Abstract: An energy efficient Ethernet physical layer (PHY) device including an EEE control module configured to generate a control signal to transition the PHY device into a low power consumption mode based an operating condition, and a pause frame generator module responsive to the control signals to generate a pause frame. The pause frame generator module is configured to send the pause frame to a media access control (MAC) device to reduce an incoming flow of data packets from the MAC device to the PHY device for a pause time duration. In operation, the pause frame generator module generates the pause frame including a pause time indicating the length of time for the PHY device to be in the low power consumption mode. The value of the pause time for each pause frame is determined adaptively based on the type of data traffic to be transmitted from the PHY device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Chang, Wei-Chi Lo, Charng-Show Li, Menping Chang
  • Adaptive pause time energy efficient ethernet PHY
    Patent number: 8942144
    Abstract: An energy efficient Ethernet physical layer (PHY) device including an EEE control module configured to generate a control signal to transition the PHY device into a low power consumption mode based an operating condition, and a pause frame generator module responsive to the control signals to generate a pause frame. The pause frame generator module is configured to send the pause frame to a media access control (MAC) device to reduce an incoming flow of data packets from the MAC device to the PHY device for a pause time duration. In operation, the pause frame generator module generates the pause frame including a pause time indicating the length of time for the PHY device to be in the low power consumption mode. The value of the pause time for each pause frame is determined adaptively based on the amount of data traffic to be transmitted from the PHY device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Micrel, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Chang, Wei-Chi Lo, Charng-Show Li, Menping Chang
  • Adaptive pause time energy efficient ethernet PHY
    Publication number: 20120287829
    Abstract: An energy efficient Ethernet physical layer (PHY) device including an EEE control module configured to generate a control signal to transition the PHY device into a low power consumption mode based an operating condition, and a pause frame generator module responsive to the control signals to generate a pause frame. The pause frame generator module is configured to send the pause frame to a media access control (MAC) device to reduce an incoming flow of data packets from the MAC device to the PHY device for a pause time duration. In operation, the pause frame generator module generates the pause frame including a pause time indicating the length of time for the PHY device to be in the low power consumption mode. The value of the pause time for each pause frame is determined adaptively based on the amount of data traffic to be transmitted from the PHY device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: MICREL, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Chang, Wei-Chi Lo, Charng-Show Li, Menping Chang