Patents by Inventor Chris Runhaar

Chris Runhaar 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).

  • Scaled PCI express credits
    Patent number: 9904653
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a PCI Express Scaled Port, a computing device and a method of communicating between PCI Express components. In one embodiment, the PCI Express Scaled Port includes: (1) an interface configured to communicate flow control negotiating packets with another PCI Express Port and (2) a FCC Controller configured to generate the flow control negotiating packets, wherein the flow control negotiating packets include a flow control credit for PCI Express packets and a scaling factor for the flow control credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Glaser, Chris Runhaar
  • SCALED PCI EXPRESS CREDITS
    Publication number: 20170052924
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a PCI Express Scaled Port, a computing device and a method of communicating between PCI Express components. In one embodiment, the PCI Express Scaled Port includes: (1) an interface configured to communicate flow control negotiating packets with another PCI Express Port and (2) a FCC Controller configured to generate the flow control negotiating packets, wherein the flow control negotiating packets include a flow control credit for PCI Express packets and a scaling factor for the flow control credit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Steve Glaser, Chris Runhaar