Patents by Inventor Li-Min Gu

Li-Min Gu 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).

  • Daisy chained ATA host controllers in a single PCI device
    Patent number: 7051134
    Abstract: Implementing daisy chained ATA host controllers in a single PCI device. The present invention discloses a PCI card that includes a plurality of dominant chips, each of the dominant chips supporting at least one ATA host controller. The PCI card also includes a Flash memory for holding dominant chip settings, an arbiter to control and determine access between the dominant chips and the PCI local bus, and a plurality of ATA connectors corresponding to the ATA host controllers. Each dominant chip includes a byte of memory reserved as a mask to control access to an additional function that may be provided by the dominant chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: ALI Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Kuang Chen, Li-Min Gu
  • Daisy Chained ATA Host Controllers in a Single PCI Device
    Publication number: 20040143694
    Abstract: Implementing daisy chained ATA host controllers in a single PCI device. The present invention discloses a PCI card that includes a plurality of dominant chips, each of the dominant chips supporting at least one ATA host controller. The PCI card also includes a Flash memory for holding dominant chip settings, an arbiter to control and determine access between the dominant chips and the PCI local bus, and a plurality of ATA connectors corresponding to the ATA host controllers. Each dominant chip includes a byte of memory reserved as a mask to control access to an additional function that may be provided by the dominant chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Kuo-Kuang Chen, Li-Min Gu