Patents by Inventor William Lloyd McNeil

William Lloyd McNeil 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: 8166246
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a processor chip, a data processing system, and computer program product in a data processing system process information in a store cache of a data processing system. The store cache receives a first entry that includes a first address indicating a first segment of a cache line. The store cache then receives a second entry including a second address indicating a second segment of the cache line. Responsive to the first segment not being equal to the second segment, the first entry is chained to the second entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guy Lynn Guthrie, Thomas Leo Jeremiah, William Lloyd McNeil, Hugh Shen, William John Starke
  • Publication number: 20090198867
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a processor chip, a data processing system, and computer program product in a data processing system process information in a store cache of a data processing system. The store cache receives a first entry that includes a first address indicating a first segment of a cache line. The store cache then receives a second entry including a second address indicating a second segment of the cache line. Responsive to the first segment not being equal to the second segment, the first entry is chained to the second entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Guy Lynn Guthrie, Thomas Leo Jeremiah, William Lloyd McNeil, Hugh Shen, William John Starke
  • Patent number: 6834356
    Abstract: An on-chip clock generation system used the Serial Interface in an on-chip JTAG facility to write bit patterns in a shift register. The bit patterns are applied to control inputs of a clock generation circuit whose clock outputs are varied in accordance with changes to the bit patterns. By using the same facility to provide JTAG and clock functions the output clocks provided by clock generation circuit on the chip can be varied without using additional pins or the output clocks themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: William Lloyd McNeil
  • Patent number: 6668332
    Abstract: Internal clock signals generated on a chip can be viewed externally by multiplexing the clock signals and functional output signals to pin that are used to view or access the functional output signals. JTAG facilities already provided on the chip are used to generate control signals that drive the multiplexers. By so doing no new input or output facilities are required to view the clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: William Lloyd McNeil
  • Patent number: 5790714
    Abstract: Scaling of video is performed using area weighted averaging of input pixels to calculate coefficients to multiply with luminescence and crominence of input pixels. Such coefficients are produced for both the vertical and horizontal scaling directions of the input video stream. When scaling down or scaling up, scaling is first performed in the vertical direction to produce partially scaled pixels, which are then utilized for scaling in the horizontal direction. When scaling up, a pre-interpolation or pre-replication process is utilized to double the inputted pixel grid which doubled pixel grid is then utilized to scale down to the desired pixel grid size, which is greater than the originally inputted pixel grid size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Lloyd McNeil, David Carl Frank