Patents by Inventor Malcolm C. Ware

Malcolm C. Ware 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).

  • Method and apparatus for facilitating real-time and asynchronous loading and temporally-overlapping of modular multimedia software tasks in a multimedia data processing system
    Patent number: 5630132
    Abstract: A data processing system for executing multimedia applications which interface with multimedia devices that consume or produce at least one of real-time and asynchronous streamed data includes a CPU for execution of one or more multimedia applications and a DSP for processing data including streamed data. A plurality of modular multimedia software tasks may be called by the multimedia application for execution in the DSP. A plurality of data communication modules are provided for linking selected ones of the software tasks with selected others of the software tasks, and linking selected multimedia devices with selected ones of the software tasks. Each of the communications modules allows continuous, real-time and unidirectional communication of streamed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary G. Allran, Donald E. Carmon, Fetchi Chen, Jose A. Eduartez, Charles R. Knox, William L. Lawton, Llewellyn B. Marshall, Nathan A. Mitchell, Malcolm C. Ware, Raymond W. Weeks, Charles R. Young