Patents by Inventor Wei-Fen Lin

Wei-Fen Lin 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).

  • Apparatus and method for scheduling requests to source device in a memory access system
    Patent number: 7356631
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for scheduling requests to a source device is provided. The apparatus comprises a high-priority request queue for storing a plurality of high-priority requests to the source device; a low-priority request queue for storing a low-priority request to the source device, wherein a priority of one of the high-priority requests is higher than the priority of the low-priority request; a history counter for storing an information related to at least one requesting interval between two adjacent high-priority requests; and a scheduling module for scheduling the high-priority requests and the low-priority request according to the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Himax Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Fen Lin
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING REQUESTS TO SOURCE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20060168383
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for scheduling requests to a source device is provided. The apparatus comprises a high-priority request queue for storing a plurality of high-priority requests to the source device; a low-priority request queue for storing a low-priority request to the source device, wherein a priority of one of the high-priority requests is higher than the priority of the low-priority request; a history counter for storing an information related to at least one requesting interval between two adjacent high-priority requests; and a scheduling module for scheduling the high-priority requests and the low-priority request according to the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventor: Wei-Fen Lin