Patents by Inventor Ming Liang Milton Lei

Ming Liang Milton Lei 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).

  • Persistent scratchpad memory for data exchange between programs
    Patent number: 10725837
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for sharing of data exchange among kernels (each a set of instructions) executing on a system having multiple processing units. In an embodiment, each processing unit includes an on-chip scratchpad memory that can be accessed by the kernels executing on the processing unit. All or a portion of the scratchpad memory can be allocated and configured, for example, such that the scratchpad is accessible to multiple kernels in parallel, to one or more kernels in serial, or a combination of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Rajballav Dash, Jack H. Choquette, Ming Liang Milton Lei, Stephen Jones, Christopher Frederick Lamb
  • System, method, and computer program product for reducing a number of requests required to retrieve portions of memory
    Patent number: 8233061
    Abstract: A memory system, method, and computer program product are provided. In use, a plurality of portions of memory is arranged contiguously. Further, a number of requests required to retrieve the portions of memory is reduced utilizing the arrangement. In one possible embodiment, such technique may be used in the context of film grain technology (FGT), such that the portions of memory include portions of a film grain image stored in a film grain database (FGDB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Jonathan Su, Ming Liang Milton Lei, Rirong Chen