Patents by Inventor Eric L. Masson

Eric L. Masson 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: 9395799
    Abstract: Power management techniques for a Universal Serial Bus (USB) include determining an idle period on one or more USB ports by a main controller circuit of a USB host controller. The main controller circuit signals a suspend to a Power Management Controller (PMC) sub-circuit of the USB host controller, in response to the determined idle period. The PMC sub-circuit stores one or more operating parameters of the one or more USB ports in response to the suspend signal. The PMC sub-circuit also maintains the idle state on the one or more USB ports in response to the suspend signal. Thereafter, the main controller circuit is placed in a low energy state while the PMC sub-circuit maintains the idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric L. Masson, Matthew R. Longnecker, Hemalkumar Chandrkant Doshi, Brian Smith
  • Publication number: 20140047257
    Abstract: Power management techniques for a Universal Serial Bus (USB) include determining an idle period on one or more USB ports by a main controller circuit of a USB host controller. The main controller circuit signals a suspend to a Power Management Controller (PMC) sub-circuit of the USB host controller, in response to the determined idle period. The PMC sub-circuit stores one or more operating parameters of the one or more USB ports in response to the suspend signal. The PMC sub-circuit also maintains the idle state on the one or more USB ports in response to the suspend signal. Thereafter, the main controller circuit is placed in a low energy state while the PMC sub-circuit maintains the idle state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Masson, Matthew R. Longnecker, Hemalkumar Chandrakant Doshi, Brian Smith
  • Patent number: 7966509
    Abstract: A system and method for performing dynamic trimming. Specifically, the system comprises a clock for generating a reference clock signal. The reference clock signal comprises a first frequency that is a factor of a second frequency of a signal (e.g., data clock signal from DDR memory). A counter is coupled to the clock and generates a plurality of clock pulses based on pulses of the reference clock signal. The plurality of clock pulses is generated at a slower frequency from the first frequency for low power operation. A phase length detector is coupled to the counter and comprises a trimmer chain for detecting an average length of at least one of the generated plurality of clock pulses. A transformation module is coupled to the phase length detector for transforming the average length to a phase delay of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Masson, Edward S. Ahn