Patents by Inventor Vivian John Ward

Vivian John Ward 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).

  • Differential signaling power management
    Patent number: 6845131
    Abstract: For a low voltage differential signalling technology to achieve more and faster processing, minimizing power consumption is important. A method of power management is provided whereby the transmitter circuitry is powered down at appropriate times and a minimum number of active links is maintained to maintain the integrity of the state of the logic in the receiver circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.
    Inventors: Vivian John Ward, John Peter Van Baarsen
  • Flexible channel system
    Publication number: 20040190553
    Abstract: This is disclosed a flexible, scalable channelized processing system composed of a relatively small number of component types. It extends switching fabric concepts into the processor FPGAs to create advantageously thereby a “processing fabric” that allows the same buses to be shared by multiple data channels, that assists on coordinating the timing of events, and that assists on management functions (related to administration, monitoring and supervision) of the processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Vivian John Ward, Leonard George Pucker