Patents by Inventor Michel A. Devault

Michel A. Devault 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).

  • Patent number: 4434463
    Abstract: A multiprocessor system for processing digital data includes a plurality of P buses and a plurality of at most P(P-1)/2 processor stations. Each station is connected to a pair of buses. The pair of buses to which a station is connected is different for each station. Each station is directly connected to 2(P-2) stations, and indirectly connected through a single relay station to at most (P-2) (P-3)/2 stations. The buses have addresses 1 to P and each station is given one complete address formed by the concatenation in any order of the addresses of the two buses to which it is connected and two incomplete addresses formed by the address of any of the two buses to which it is connected. When detecting its complete address, a station behaves as an addressee station and when detecting one of its two incomplete addresses, a station behaves as a relay station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Quinquis, Michel A. Devault