Patents by Inventor Terry Altmayer

Terry Altmayer 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).

  • Methods and structure for accounting for connection resets between peripheral component interconnect express bridges and host devices
    Patent number: 8943255
    Abstract: Methods and structure for accounting are provided for enhancing communications via a PCIE bridge. The bridge comprises a host interface that manages communications with a host device, and a PCIE interface that provides Memory Read Requests (MRds) to a PCIE device and receives Memory Read Completions (MRCs) from the PCIE device. The bridge also comprises a control unit that inserts tag information into the MRds. The control unit detects a reset of the host interface and revises the tag information inserted into the MRds responsive to detecting the reset. Additionally, the control unit analyzes tag information of received MRCs to determine whether it is the revised tag information or is old tag information, returns completion data from MRCs having the revised tag information to the host device, and discards completion data from received MRCs having the old tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Robert E. Ward, Brian Lessard, Terry Altmayer
  • METHODS AND STRUCTURE FOR ACCOUNTING FOR CONNECTION RESETS BETWEEN PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS BRIDGES AND HOST DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130326106
    Abstract: Methods and structure for accounting are provided for enhancing communications via a PCIE bridge. The bridge comprises a host interface that manages communications with a host device, and a PCIE interface that provides Memory Read Requests (MRds) to a PCIE device and receives Memory Read Completions (MRCs) from the PCIE device. The bridge also comprises a control unit that inserts tag information into the MRds. The control unit detects a reset of the host interface and revises the tag information inserted into the MRds responsive to detecting the reset. Additionally, the control unit analyzes tag information of received MRCs to determine whether it is the revised tag information or is old tag information, returns completion data from MRCs having the revised tag information to the host device, and discards completion data from received MRCs having the old tag information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: LSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert E. Ward, Brian Lessard, Terry Altmayer