Patents by Inventor Gregory N. Santos

Gregory N. Santos 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).

  • Bus-to-bus pacing logic for improving information transfers in a multi-bus information handling system
    Patent number: 5564026
    Abstract: Hardware logic within a host bridge that connects a system bus to a peripheral bus using PCI bus architecture or a peripheral bus that uses a bus architecture similar to PCI. The hardware optimizes the speed at which data transfers are accomplished between the buses while translating the data transfers between the different architectures of the two buses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nader Amini, Ashu Kohli, Gregory N. Santos
  • Bridge circuit that can eliminate invalid data during information transfer between buses of different bitwidths
    Patent number: 5550989
    Abstract: Hardware logic within a host bridge that connects a CPU local bus to a peripheral bus that determines if data to be transmitted on the CPU local bus is non-contiguous and, if so, substitutes contiguous data for the non-contiguous data to ensure that the CPU local bus does not malfunction. Simultaneously, the hardware translates data transfers between a peripheral bus that is limited by its architecture to data strings of a standard length and a CPU local bus that permits dynamic bus sizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory N. Santos
  • Bus-to-bus bridge for a multiple bus information handling system that optimizes data transfers between a system bus and a peripheral bus
    Patent number: 5522050
    Abstract: Hardware logic within a host bridge that connects a system bus to a peripheral bus using PCI bus architecture or a peripheral bus that uses a bus architecture similar to PCI. The hardware optimizes the speed at which data transfers are accomplished between the buses while translating the data transfers between the different architectures of the two buses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nader Amini, Ashu Kohli, Gregory N. Santos