Inventor
SCHAFFER MARK MICHAEL
US22 patents
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IBM
11 patentsUS6081860AJun 27, 2000
Address pipelining for data transfers
IBM92 citations98
US5925118AJul 20, 1999
Methods and architectures for overlapped read and write operations
IBM69 citations96
US5884051AMar 16, 1999
System, methods and computer program products for flexibly controlling bus access based on fixed and dynamic priorities
IBM61 citations95
US6055584AApr 25, 2000
Processor local bus posted DMA FlyBy burst transfers
IBM82 citations94
US5862353AJan 19, 1999
Systems and methods for dynamically controlling a bus
IBM48 citations92
US6504854B1Jan 7, 2003
Multiple frequency communications
IBM17 citations84
US5926831AJul 20, 1999
Methods and apparatus for control of speculative memory accesses
IBM18 citations84
US5848436ADec 8, 1998
Method and apparatus for efficiently providing data from a data storage medium to a processing entity
IBM19 citations84
US6047336AApr 4, 2000
Speculative direct memory access transfer between slave devices and memory
IBM18 citations83
US6032238AFeb 29, 2000
Overlapped DMA line transfers
IBM12 citations72
US6052745AApr 18, 2000
System for asserting burst termination signal and burst complete signal one cycle prior to and during last cycle in fixed length burst transfers
IBM5 citations55
QUALCOMM INC
7 patentsUS7395361B2Jul 1, 2008
Apparatus and methods for weighted bus arbitration among a plurality of master devices based on transfer direction and/or consumed bandwidth
QUALCOMM INC13 citations83
US7209998B2Apr 24, 2007
Scalable bus structure
QUALCOMM INC6 citations74
US9152595B2Oct 6, 2015
Processor-based system hybrid ring bus interconnects, and related devices, processor-based systems, and methods
QUALCOMM INC4 citations69
US7185123B2Feb 27, 2007
Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth on a transmit channel of a bus
QUALCOMM INC4 citations63
US7913021B2Mar 22, 2011
Scalable bus structure
QUALCOMM INC1 citations52
US8028143B2Sep 27, 2011
Method and apparatus for transmitting memory pre-fetch commands on a bus
QUALCOMM INC0 citations42
US7617343B2Nov 10, 2009
Scalable bus structure
QUALCOMM INC0 citations42
SHIRLEN MARTYN RYAN
2 patentsUS8615638B2Dec 24, 2013
Memory controllers, systems and methods for applying page management policies based on stream transaction information
SHIRLEN MARTYN RYAN4 citations61
US8838861B2Sep 16, 2014
Methods and apparatuses for trace multicast across a bus structure, and related systems
SHIRLEN MARTYN RYAN1 citations50