Patents by Inventor Whitney Li

Whitney Li 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).

  • Slave device having independent error recovery
    Patent number: 7526676
    Abstract: A slave device adapted to couple to a master processor and including an error handler and a communication controller. The error handler is configured to detect errors internal to the slave device and, in response to detecting at least one error and independent of the master processor, configured to select an error recovery operation based on the at least one detected error and to initiate and perform the selected error recovery operation. The communication controller is configured to communicate with the master processor according to a master/slave protocol, and configured to maintain the master/slave protocol during performance of the selected error recovery operation by the error handler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Norman C. Chou, Whitney Li
  • Slave device having independent error recovery
    Publication number: 20060053331
    Abstract: A slave device adapted to couple to a master processor and including an error handler and a communication controller. The error handler is configured to detect errors internal to the slave device and, in response to detecting at least one error and independent of the master processor, configured to select an error recovery operation based on the at least one detected error and to initiate and perform the selected error recovery operation. The communication controller is configured to communicate with the master processor according to a master/slave protocol, and configured to maintain the master/slave protocol during performance of the selected error recovery operation by the error handler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Norman Chou, Whitney Li