Patents by Inventor Nicolas MELLIS

Nicolas MELLIS 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).

  • Scalable round-robin arbiter tree for round-robin arbitration
    Patent number: 11762795
    Abstract: The methods and systems may provide a scalable round-robin arbiter tree that performs round-robin arbitration for a plurality of requests received from a set of requestors. The round-robin arbiter may stack a plurality of round-robin cells in stages where an output of a first stage of round-robin cells is an input to a next stage of round-robin cells. The round-robin arbiter may transform an arbitration state at each stage of the arbitration and propagate the arbitration state into the next stage for arbitration. The arbitration state from the final stage round-robin cell is fed back to the first stage of the round-robin cells and used in a subsequent arbitration round.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shu-Yi Yu, Nicolas Mellis
  • SCALABLE HIGH-SPEED ROUND-ROBIN ARBITER TREE
    Publication number: 20220365894
    Abstract: The methods and systems may provide a scalable round-robin arbiter tree that performs round-robin arbitration for a plurality of requests received from a set of requestors. The round-robin arbiter may stack a plurality of round-robin cells in stages where an output of a first stage of round-robin cells is an input to a next stage of round-robin cells. The round-robin arbiter may transform an arbitration state at each stage of the arbitration and propagate the arbitration state into the next stage for arbitration. The arbitration state from the final stage round-robin cell is fed back to the first stage of the round-robin cells and used in a subsequent arbitration round.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Shu-Yi YU, Nicolas MELLIS