Patents by Inventor Derek Golightly

Derek Golightly 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: 8000735
    Abstract: A wireless communications device includes a host processing unit, a modem processing unit, and a memory transport interface. The wireless communications device typically runs a variety of software tasks, some of which require considerably more memory than others. By processing the memory intensive tasks with the host processing unit and assigning tasks requiring high computing power but relatively smaller memory to the modem processor unit, a smaller on-chip memory can be used for the modem processor unit tasks. In addition, by using a messaging transport interface to transfer data between tasks running on different processing units, smaller local memories can be used in place of a shared memory. For example, by allocating and storing L1 tasks at the modem processing unit and allocating/storing L2 and L3 tasks at the host processing unit, duplicate memory components may be reduced or removed, thereby lowering system costs and improving system efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: GlobalFoundries Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Barclay, Terry Lynn Cole, Richard Powell, William M. Johnson, David W. Smith, Ralf Findeisen, Derek Golightly
  • Patent number: 7636555
    Abstract: A radio communications technique is provided where the operation of a radio interface is controlled based on an event list. The event list specifies a sequence of events which each specify a control task to be performed when controlling operation of the radio interface. The event list may be configured based on event list specification data received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventor: Derek Golightly
  • Publication number: 20060116163
    Abstract: A radio communications technique is provided where the operation of a radio interface is controlled based on an event list. The event list specifies a sequence of events which each specify a control task to be performed when controlling operation of the radio interface. The event list may be configured based on event list specification data received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventor: Derek Golightly