Patents by Inventor Dhawal Kumar

Dhawal Kumar 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).

  • System and method for hardware assisted resource sharing
    Patent number: 7275121
    Abstract: A system and method for managing access to a shared resource employs mutually exclusive flags. The flags enable arbitration between all applications requesting the use of the shared resource and ensure that each application has exclusive and continuous use of the shared resource. The preferred embodiment uses hardware to realize the flags and the flag arbitrating means. In one embodiment, the applications control and observe the flags through read/write registers. Alternative embodiments provide a unique read/write register for each application using the shared resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Aron L. Wong, Dhawal Kumar, Mark S. Krueger, Michael A. Ogrinc