Patents by Inventor Frank Motta

Frank Motta 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 for hardware assisted free list management
    Patent number: 7318139
    Abstract: A system uses specialized software instructions for efficient management of freelists. In a preferred embodiment, special load and store instructions are provided. The load instruction is mapped to a register or memory location. When the load instruction is performed, hardware uses a bit-map free slot map to return an index of a free slot. Similarly, the store instruction is used to release, or free, a slot. The store instruction allows software to specify an index of a slot to be freed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventor: Frank Motta
  • System for hardware assisted free list management
    Publication number: 20040153617
    Abstract: A system uses specialized software instructions for efficient management of freelists. In a preferred embodiment, special load and store instructions are provided. The load instruction is mapped to a register or memory location. When the load instruction is performed, hardware uses a bit-map free slot map to return an index of a free slot. Similarly, the store instruction is used to release, or free, a slot. The store instruction allows software to specify an index of a slot to be freed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: QuickSilver Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Motta