Patents by Inventor Marck E. Thierbach

Marck E. Thierbach 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).

  • Circuit for arbitrating interrupts with programmable priority levels
    Patent number: 5958036
    Abstract: Apparatus for arbitrating the selection of an interrupt for servicing from a plurality of interrupts in which a priority level for each of the plurality of interrupts is programmed in a first register and each of the interrupts which is to be evaluated for selection for servicing is set as pending in a second register. Only a pending interrupt having a priority level above a pre-set current interrupt priority level is selected for servicing and where multiple pending interrupts of the same priority level occur, the one with the highest order bit position in the second register is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Francis Burns, Ravi Kumar Kolagotla, Douglas J. Rhodes, Marck E. Thierbach