Patents by Inventor Doyle Stanfill Cronk

Doyle Stanfill Cronk 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).

  • Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling address space allocation
    Patent number: 5852738
    Abstract: A method for managing a memory address space in a memory system, the memory system having multiple block address translation entries, each entry defining a portion of the memory address space, including the steps of determining that a received virtual address references a portion of the memory address space not defined by any of the block address translation entries, reallocating at least one of the block address translation entries to define a portion of the memory address space including the received virtual address, and providing a physical address matching the virtual address by using the reallocated block address translation entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Bealkowski, Doyle Stanfill Cronk, Benjamin Russell Grimes, Michael Robert Turner