Patents by Inventor Thomas Earl Bowers

Thomas Earl Bowers 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).

  • Patent number: 6654646
    Abstract: A processing or control system having arrangements for separately and simultaneously generating instruction addresses and data addresses having two bus systems for accessing instruction and data storage, and having a single address range for both instructions and data. The boundary between the instruction range and the data range can be varied and placed under the control of the processor according to the needs of the particular application being processed. Some or all of the blocks of storage can access either the instruction bus or the data bus system, and the selection is made under the control of a control register within the processor. Advantageously, applications which require a larger amount of instruction storage, this can be provided; for applications which require a larger amount of data storage, that can be provided also; both are limited only by the total amount of storage available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Earl Bowers, Robert Joseph Gamoke, Glen D. Rocque, Paul Ronald Wiley
  • Publication number: 20020072810
    Abstract: A processing or control system having arrangements for separately and simultaneously generating instruction addresses and data addresses having two bus systems for accessing instruction and data storage, and having a single address range for both instructions and data. The boundary between the instruction range and the data range can be varied and placed under the control of the processor according to the needs of the particular application being processed. Some or all of the blocks of storage can access either the instruction bus or the data bus system, and the selection is made under the control of a control register within the processor. Advantageously, applications which require a larger amount of instruction storage, this can be provided; for applications which require a larger amount of data storage, that can be provided also; both are limited only by the total amount of storage available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Earl Bowers, Robert Joseph Gamoke, Glen D. Rocque, Paul Ronald Wiley
  • Publication number: 20020073295
    Abstract: In a data processing or control system having arrangements for separately and simultaneously generating instruction addresses and data addresses, having two bus systems for accessing instruction and data storage, and having a single address range for both instructions and data, an arrangement for extending a range of addressable storage beyond the basic range allowed by the instruction codes. The processor is equipped to generate a long address, i.e., 30-bits, even though the instruction execution means can only generate a 23-bit address. When the processor goes into an alternate mode, the contents of a segment control register are prefixed onto the addresses generated within the processor when a certain class of instructions are executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Earl Bowers, Robert Joseph Gamoke, Glen D. Rocque, Paul Ronald Wiley
  • Patent number: 5943219
    Abstract: A circuit card face plate with an elastomeric, electrically-conductive seal that provides electromagnetic compatibility sealing and air flow control for a front panel of an electronic equipment frame. The seal gasket is in electrically-conductive contact with the face plate and an adjacent face plate, thus, with all cards in place, an air flow barrier and an electrically-conductive surface is established. To this end, an elastomeric, electrically conductive seal in a modified figure-eight cross-section provides a close fit with minimal lateral pressure being exerted on adjacent cards. Further a pin on both the top and the bottom of the face plate inserts into a hole on an upper and lower rack shelf maintain alignment of the cards when they are in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Anthony Bellino, Thomas Earl Bowers, William Thomas Harrison, William Joseph Harvey, Paul Edwin Maass, Joel Everett Miller, Reynaldo Olinares Miran