Patents by Inventor Monica Wong-Chan

Monica Wong-Chan 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).

  • Dynamically controlling interconnect frequency in a processor
    Patent number: 9323316
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether a number of stalled cores of a multicore processor is greater than a stall threshold. If so, a recommendation may be made that an operating frequency of system agent circuitry of the processor be increased. Then based on multiple recommendations, a candidate operating frequency of the system agent circuitry can be set. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Malini K. Bhandaru, Ankush Varma, James R. Vash, Monica Wong-Chan, Eric J. Dehaemer, Christopher Allan Poirier, Sr., Scott P. Bobholz
  • DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING INTERCONNECT FREQUENCY IN A PROCESSOR
    Publication number: 20140208141
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether a number of stalled cores of a multicore processor is greater than a stall threshold. If so, a recommendation may be made that an operating frequency of system agent circuitry of the processor be increased. Then based on multiple recommendations, a candidate operating frequency of the system agent circuitry can be set. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Malini K. Bhandaru, Ankush Varma, James R. Vash, Monica Wong-Chan, Eric J. Dehaemer, Christopher Allan Poirier, SR., Scott P. Bobholz
  • System and method for enhancing communication between devices in a computer system
    Patent number: 7225383
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for resending a request in a computer system using a delay value is provided. In response to receiving a request, a target device in a computer system may detect that it is temporarily unable to process the request. The target device can send a response to the sending device to indicate that it is temporarily unavailable. The response can include a delay value that can provide a hint to the sending device as to when to resend the request. The target device may generate the delay value according to the type of condition that is causing it to be temporarily unavailable. The delay value may be generated according to a static heuristic or a dynamic algorithm based on previous temporarily unavailable conditions. The delay value may also be used by an error recovery mechanism where a sending device exceeds a retry limit for a particular request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Wood, Robert C. Zak, Jr., Monica Wong-Chan, Christopher J. Jackson, Thomas P. Webber, Mark D. Hill
  • Queuing delay limiter
    Patent number: 6772244
    Abstract: A method for identifying stale transactions in a queueing system with transaction processors. The method includes identifying actual processing times of transactions, maintaining a running total of deviations of processing times from a maximum expected processing time and signaling when the running total exceeds a threshold time limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hien H. Nguyen, Don M. Morrier, Monica Wong-Chan, Erik Hagersten