Patents by Inventor Jack Abily

Jack Abily 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: 6125407
    Abstract: A process and system for flushing high-speed buffers in a serial link used between a mover circuit (4) that executes data move operations and at least two memories through at least two channels (400, 401), the data move operations each being constituted by a move request followed by the return of a response or acknowledgement of the request, cyclically with interlacing, the responses following the same pair of serial channels (400, 401) as the requests for which they constitute the acknowledgements. The process comprises:a step for placing the mover circuit (4) into a so-called "absorption" mode of operation,a step for generating a specific write request and a specific read request, each of which comprises a so-called "barrier" marker contained in a control character preceding or following the request,a step for accumulating the responses received, anda step for comparing the responses received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Bull S.A.
    Inventors: Jack Abily, Yu Jun Jean Qian
  • Patent number: 6073227
    Abstract: In order to move data blocks from a source memory unit (8, 9, 12) to a target memory unit (12, 8, 9) by means of a data path (5, 6, 7), wherein the blocks moved are not necessarily framed in the blocks of the source memory and the target memory, an electrical circuit makes it possible to perform a framing with a granularity equal to the width of the data path. To reduce latency, the framing is done by a shift register with a storage capacity reduced to that of a single block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Bull, S.A.
    Inventors: Jack Abily, Jean Yujun Qian
  • Patent number: 6029233
    Abstract: Electrical circuit (5) arranged to move data blocks from a source memory unit (8, 9, 12) to a target memory unit (9, 12, 8) by a data path (5, 6, 7), to send, in a given order, requests to read blocks in the source memory, to generate an end marker in the request to read the last block of the source memory, to receive the blocks read, in the form of response messages, in the order in which the requests were sent, and to send requests to write the received blocks, in the target memory, during receiving of response messages until receiving a message from the source memory with the end marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Bull, S.A.
    Inventors: Jack Abily, Jean-Fran.cedilla.ois Autechaud, Christophe Dionet
  • Patent number: 5983307
    Abstract: In order to allow an external memory space to enter into the memory space of a microprocessor (43) comprising a cache memory (94), an integrated circuit (42) serves as an interface between the microprocessor (43) and a memory unit (8, 9, 12) constituting the external memory space. The integrated circuit (42) comprises a stack (91) sized for containing a data block from the memory unit (8, 9, 12) such that the block from the memory unit (8, 9, 12) is seen as one or more blocks in the cache memory (94), and a register (93) belonging to the memory space of the microprocessor (43) adapted to contain the coordinates for access to the memory unit (8, 9, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Bull S.A.
    Inventors: Jack Abily, Jean Yujun Qian