Patents by Inventor Masimiliano Barone

Masimiliano Barone 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 for compressing high repetitivity data, in particular data used in memory device testing
    Publication number: 20040177295
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for compressing a sequence of repetitive data, which uses in combination one or more words with a format for non-compressible data and one or more words with a format for compressible data, in which a word with a format for non-compressible data is made up of a set of bits, in which the most significant bit is set at the logic value “1” and the remaining bits are the bits of a non-compressible datum to be encoded, whilst a word with a format for compressible data is made up of a set of bits, in which the most significant bit is set at a the logic value “0”, the next five most significant bits indicate the total number of subsequent words which encode the sequence of repetitive data, and the remaining eleven bits indicate the number of times that the words indicated by the preceding five most significant bits are repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Masimiliano Barone