Patents by Inventor Dominique Benoit

Dominique Benoit 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).

  • Publication number: 20020194441
    Abstract: A memory traffic access controller (18) responsive to a plurality of requests to access a memory. The controller includes circuitry (18d) for associating, for each of the plurality of requests, an initial priority value corresponding to the request. The controller further includes circuitry (18b, 18d, 18e, 18f) for changing the initial priority value for selected ones of the plurality of requests to a different priority value. Lastly, the controller includes circuitry for outputting (18d) a signal to cause access of the memory in response to a request in the plurality of requests having a highest priority value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Gerard Chauvel, Serge Lasserre, Dominique Benoit Jacques D' Inverno
  • Patent number: 6446961
    Abstract: A method of monitoring the transport of flat copies along transport paths in a folder includes selecting sensors for detecting at least one of the presence and the absence of copies, depending upon the folding mode of the folder; determining by transmitters the number of copies that have entered the folder, and comparing the number of copies present in the folder with the number of copies detected by the sensors; a device for performing the method; a folder including the device; and a rotary printing machine in combination with the folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Francoise Marie Foret, Dominique Benoit Rousseau, Didier Marcel Rousseau
  • Patent number: 6430664
    Abstract: A DSP (10) accesses internal memory using physical addresses and has a internal MMU (19) which allows the DSP (10) to work with a large virtual address space mapped to an external memory (20). The MMU (19) performs the translation between a virtual address and the physical address associated with the external memory (20). The MMU (19) includes a translation lookaside buffer (28) and walking table logic (32) for translating virtual addresses to physical addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gérard Chauvel, Serge Lasserre, Dominique Benoît Jacques d'Inverno
  • Patent number: 6412048
    Abstract: A memory traffic access controller (18) responsive to a plurality of requests to access a memory. The controller includes circuitry (18d) for associating, for each of the plurality of requests, an initial priority value corresponding to the request. The controller further includes circuitry (18b, 18d, 18e, 18f) for changing the initial priority value for selected ones of the plurality of requests to a different priority value. Lastly, the controller includes circuitry for outputting (18d) a signal to cause access of the memory in response to a request in the plurality of requests having a highest priority value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gérard Chauvel, Serge Lasserre, Dominique Benoît Jacques d'Inverno
  • Publication number: 20020078319
    Abstract: A DSP (10) accesses internal memory using physical addresses and has a internal MMU (19) which allows the DSP (10) to work with a large virtual address space mapped to an external memory (20). The MMU (19) performs the translation between a virtual address and the physical address associated with the external memory (20). The MMU (19) includes a translation lookaside buffer (28) and walking table logic (32) for translating virtual addresses to physical addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: GERARD CHAUVEL, SERGE LASSERRE, DOMINIQUE BENOIT JACQUES D'INVERNO
  • Patent number: 6321299
    Abstract: A method (50) of operating a computing system (10). The computing system comprises a cache memory (12b), and the cache memory has a predetermined number of cache lines. First, the method, for a plurality of write addresses, writes data (64) to the cache memory at a location corresponding to each of the plurality of write addresses. Second, the method cleans (70) a selected number (68) of lines in the cache memory. For each of the selected number of lines, the cleaning step evaluates a dirty indicator corresponding to data in the line and copies data from the line to another memory if the dirty indicator indicates the data in the line is dirty. Lastly, the selected number of lines which are cleaned is less than the predetermined number of cache lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gérard Chauvel, Serge Lasserre, Dominique Benoît Jacques d'Inverno
  • Patent number: 6253297
    Abstract: A memory controller circuit (18a) for coupling to a memory (24), where the memory has a plurality of rows. The memory controller circuit includes circuitry (28) for receiving signals representative of requests to access the memory. Given these signals, a first such signal representative of a first request to access the memory is received by the circuitry for receiving and comprises a first address in the memory, and a second signal representative of a second request to access the memory is received by the circuitry for receiving after the first signal and comprises a second address in the memory. The memory controller circuit also includes determining circuitry (30, RAn, AC13 Bn13 ROW, C_B_Rn) for determining whether the second address is directed to a same one of the plurality of rows as the first address. Still further, the memory controller circuit includes circuitry (30) for issuing control signals to the memory in response to receiving signals representative of requests to access the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gérard Chauvel, Serge Lasserre, Dominique Benoît Jacques d'Inverno
  • Patent number: 5095659
    Abstract: A vehicle door comprising a door shell, a module, and door hardware components attached on the door module. The door shell comprises an outer belt reinforcement, an outer panel and an inner panel having a hinge and a latch member. The module comprises a core member having two metal plates thereby to receive the hardware components. The hardware components which are attached to the module are an exterior door release, an interior door release, a latch mechanism, a window regulator mechanism, and a trim panel. Thus, the module is adapted to permit pre-assembly and pre-testing of major sub-assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Atoma International, A Magna International Company
    Inventors: Dominique Benoit, Jonathan Vinden