Patents by Inventor David L. Ruhberg

David L. Ruhberg 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).

  • Patent number: 4613953
    Abstract: An addressing and control system for a mass memory which is partitioned into selectable pages of individually specified size. The invention generates a composite address for the mass memory so that a microcomputer of limited address size can access the mass memory by individually specified page. One circuit implementation utilizes a register to latch page size and selection information for subsequent combination with address information to generate a full address for the mass memory. In that situation, the size register multiplexes the address bus information and page selection information to maintain correspondence between the specified size of the page and the total addressing bits available. In another form, the invention provides for supplementing the number of address bus bits with bits transmitted over the data bus to extend the bit length of the address used to access the mass memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1986
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Bush, David L. Ruhberg