Patents by Inventor Karl Mann

Karl Mann 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: 8675003
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses, and systems for accessing vertex data stored in a memory, and applications thereof. Such a method includes writing vertex data of primitives into contiguous banks of a memory such that the vertex data of consecutively written primitives spans more than one row of the memory. Vertex data of two consecutively written primitives are read from the memory in a single clock cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Mantor, Michael Mang, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 8478946
    Abstract: Embodiments for a local data share (LDS) unit are described herein. Embodiments include a co-operative set of threads to load data into shared memory so that the threads can have repeated memory access allowing higher memory bandwidth. In this way, data can be shared between related threads in a cooperative manner by providing a re-use of a locality of data from shared registers. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention allow a cooperative set of threads to fetch data in a partitioned manner so that it is only fetched once into a shared memory that can be repeatedly accessed via a separate low latency path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Mantor, Michael Mang, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 8260337
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shalini Periyalwar, Hang Zhang, Nimal Senarath, Derek Yu, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 8155089
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing finger de-spreading and MRC combining are provided. A large antenna buffer is used to buffer all the finger signals of the same user so that the receiver can do both de-spreading and MRC at the same time without buffering the de-spreading finger symbols. For each user, a reference time is introduced to align all the finger signals of the same user in the Antenna Buffer. The reference time delay is used to generate the PN codes for de-spreading, as well as to count the number of symbols in a PCG or a frame. Methods for antenna buffer arrangement, interpolating filter implementation, channel estimation and MRC for traffic data channels, timing for the user's finger signal de-spreading and MRC, long code and short code generation for de-spreading, new finger allocation and finger timing adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Xixian Chen, Woon Thong, Ganesh Sundararajan, Edward Ken Kiu Mah, Karl Mann
  • Publication number: 20110201374
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: SHALINI PERIYALWAR, HANG ZHANG, NIMAL SENARATH, DEREK YU, KELVIN KAR-KIN AU, KARL MANN
  • Publication number: 20110066813
    Abstract: Embodiments for a local data share (LDS) unit are described herein. Embodiments include a co-operative set of threads to load data into shared memory so that the threads can have repeated memory access allowing higher memory bandwidth. In this way, data can be shared between related threads in a cooperative manner by providing a re-use of a locality of data from shared registers. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention allow a cooperative set of threads to fetch data in a partitioned manner so that it is only fetched once into a shared memory that can be repeatedly accessed via a separate low latency path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael MANTOR, Michael MANG, Karl MANN
  • Publication number: 20110057942
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses, and systems for accessing vertex data stored in a memory, and applications thereof. Such a method includes writing vertex data of primitives into contiguous banks of a memory such that the vertex data of consecutively written primitives spans more than one row of the memory. Vertex data of two consecutively written primitives are read from the memory in a single clock cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Mantor, Michael Mang, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 7877106
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Shalini Periyalwar, Hang Zhang, Nimal Senarath, Derek Yu, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 7801085
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing finger de-spreading and MRC combining are provided. A large antenna buffer is used to buffer all the finger signals of the same user so that the receiver can do both de-spreading and MRC at the same time without buffering the de-spreading finger symbols. For each user, a reference time is introduced to align all the finger signals of the same user in the Antenna Buffer. The reference time delay is used to generate the PN codes for de-spreading, as well as to count the number of symbols in a PCG or a frame. Methods for antenna buffer arrangement, interpolating filter implementation, channel estimation and MRC for traffic data channels, timing for the user's finger signal de-spreading and MRC, long code and short code generation for de-spreading, new finger allocation and finger timing adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Xixian Chen, Woon Thong, Ganesh Sundararajan, Edward Ken Kiu Mah, Karl Mann
  • Publication number: 20090221325
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: SHALINI PERIYALWAR, HANG ZHANG, NIMAL SENARATH, DEREK YU, KELVIN KAR-KIN AU, KARL MANN
  • Patent number: 7548758
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Shalini Periyalwar, Hang Zhang, Nimal Senarath, Derek Yu, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Karl Mann
  • Patent number: 7349699
    Abstract: Overlay and underlay carriers are used to transmit traffic over a cellular network for a call associated with a mobile terminal. A method involves determining which one of the underlay carrier and the overlay carrier is to carry the traffic as a function of a resource parameter associated with a resource for transmitting the traffic and a mobility parameter of the mobile terminal. In some implementations, the method is applied at for example a base station to a plurality of calls associated with various mobile terminals within a cell and the calls are assigned to the underlay carrier and the overlay carrier using an optimization routine that optimizes a function associated with the capacity while imposing a constraint such as for example a constraint on a hand-off rate between the carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Owen Kelly, Karl Mann, Miroslav Budic, Marthinus Da Silveira, Mikhail Royz, Bob Tapadar
  • Publication number: 20050239451
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Shalini Periyalwar, Hang Zhang, Nimal Senarath, Derek Yu, Kelvin Au, Karl Mann