Patents by Inventor W. H. Durdan

W. H. Durdan 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).

  • Efficient protocol for communicating between asychronous devices
    Patent number: 5040109
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing data transfers in a data processing system is presented. The invention includes two separate clocks generated by a slave processor, one of which is used to synchronize outgoing signals from the communicating elements and the second of which is used to synchronize incoming signals to the communicating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Bowhill, Robert Dickson, W. H. Durdan