Patents by Inventor Matthew C. Quinn

Matthew C. Quinn 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 transporting information to a graphic accelerator card
    Patent number: 6313845
    Abstract: A graphics request stream is transferred from a host processor to a graphics card via a host bus so that the stream traverses the host bus no more than once. To that end, the graphics card has a graphics card memory, and the host processor has a host memory configured in a first memory configuration. The graphics card memory may be configured in the first memory configuration, and the graphics request stream is received directly in a message from the host processor (via the host bus). Upon receipt by the graphics card, the graphics request stream is written to the graphics card memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Clay Terry, Dale L. Kirkland, Steve Conklin, Matthew C. Quinn