Patents by Inventor Richard E. Seiter

Richard E. Seiter 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).

  • System and method for providing burst licensing in a circuit simulation environment
    Patent number: 7299429
    Abstract: A system and method which allows for burst licensing, particularly for use in a circuit design and analysis system in which designers use tools to assist in characterizing and verifying the circuit. Burst licensing is used to provide licenses on an ‘as and when required’ basis to allow system users or customers to carry out massive parallelism of the simulation tasks when run from selected tools. When the system receives a request to start a task, the system checks-out a burst license for use in processing the task, and assigns the license to a particular CPU. The task is then performed at that CPU, and once completed the burst license is returned to the license pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul C. Foster, James Britton, Alan Mayes, Richard E. Seiter
  • System and method for providing burst licensing in a circuit simulation environment
    Patent number: 6832358
    Abstract: A system and method which allows for burst licensing, particularly for use in a circuit design and analysis system in which designers use tools to assist in characterizing and verifying the circuit. Burst licensing is used to provide licenses on an ‘as and when required’ basis to allow system users or customers to carry out massive parallelism of the simulation tasks when run from selected tools. When the system receives a request to start a task, the system checks-out a burst license for use in processing the task, and assigns the license to a particular CPU. The task is then performed at that CPU, and once completed the burst license is returned to the license pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul C. Foster, James Britton, Alan Mayes, Richard E. Seiter
  • System and method for providing burst licensing in a circuit simulation environment
    Publication number: 20040019566
    Abstract: A system and method which allows for burst licensing, particularly for use in a circuit design and analysis system in which designers use tools to assist in characterizing and verifying the circuit. Burst licensing is used to provide licenses on an ‘as and when required’ basis to allow system users or customers to carry out massive parallelism of the simulation tasks when run from selected tools. When the system receives a request to start a task, the system checks-out a burst license for use in processing the task, and assigns the license to a particular CPU. The task is then performed at that CPU, and once completed the burst license is returned to the license pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Paul C. Foster, James Britton, Alan Mayes, Richard E. Seiter