Patents by Inventor Ronald E. Weir

Ronald E. Weir 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).

  • Data bus protocol for high speed chip to chip data transfer
    Patent number: 5551052
    Abstract: A protocol for communication through a bus controller to control data transfers between a host processing platform and the data bus of a bit map printer. This protocol is optimized for a data bus which connects a number of ASIC accelerator cards in addition to the printer, disk controller, bus controller and other typical system cards. The basic data transfer cycle transfers eight data words on the bus between ASIC's, I/O devices, printer and any other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Eric S. Barnes, George L. Eldridge, Uoc Nguyen, Ajit Shah, Ronald E. Weir