Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Joel Walls

Jeffrey Joel Walls 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).

  • Publication number: 20010012014
    Abstract: Single Logical Screen and Direct Hardware Access in a 3D environment are combined by passing a single stream of protocol to the X Server, which in turn passes the information to multiple 3D rendering processes for display on individual screens (monitors). Multiple instances of a single daemon implement the rendering processes. The X Server communicates with an instance of the daemon functioning as a master daemon, which in turn controls the remaining instances functioning as slave daemons. All daemons communicate through common shared memory segments. This achieves both efficiency and performance, since duplicated distribution of commands and data is avoided. Each of the daemons is driven by the contents of the shared memory segments. To facilitate this, an X Client, the X Server and the daemons are all interconnected with separate control and data paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
    Inventors: KEVIN T. LEFEBVRE, DON B. HOFFMAN, JEFFREY JOEL WALLS, DEREK J. LUKASIK