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Curtis Priem
Also filed as: PRIEM CURTIS · PRIEM CURTIS R
89 granted patents·3,959 citations·filing 1988–2007
99Inventor score
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89 records- 0197US4908780AAnti-aliasing raster operations utilizing sub-pixel crossing information to control pixel shadingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1988·Granted Mar 13, 1990·171 cites·15 claims
- 0296US6023738AMethod and apparatus for accelerating the transfer of graphical imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 8, 2000·186 cites·29 claims
- 0395US6725457B1Semaphore enhancement to improve system performanceNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 20, 2004·137 cites·20 claims
- 0493US6691180B2Apparatus for accelerating the rendering of imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 10, 2004·78 cites·10 claims
- 0592US7038692B1Method and apparatus for providing a vertex cacheNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted May 2, 2006·89 cites·20 claims
- 0692US6181352B1Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple texturesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 30, 2001·137 cites·4 claims
- 0792US5127098AMethod and apparatus for the context switching of devicesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1989·Granted Jun 30, 1992·150 cites·21 claims
- 0891US5543824AApparatus for selecting frame buffers for display in a double buffered display systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 6, 1996·123 cites·4 claims
- 0990US5758182ADMA controller translates virtual I/O device address received directly from application program command to physical i/o device address of I/O device on device busNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted May 26, 1998·162 cites·17 claims
- 1089US4907174AZ-buffer allocated for window identificationSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1988·Granted Mar 6, 1990·70 cites·27 claims
- 1188US6333744B1Graphics pipeline including combiner stagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 25, 2001·110 cites·21 claims
- 1288US5909595AMethod of controlling I/O routing by setting connecting context for utilizing I/O processing elements within a computer system to produce multimedia effectsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 1, 1999·141 cites·7 claims
- 1388US5742788AMethod and apparatus for providing a configurable display memory for single buffered and double buffered application programs to be run singly or simultaneouslySUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1994·Granted Apr 21, 1998·88 cites·12 claims
- 1487US6092124AMethod and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 18, 2000·112 cites·2 claims
- 1584US6282587B1Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 28, 2001·32 cites·11 claims
- 1683US6081854ASystem for providing fast transfers to input/output device by assuring commands from only one application program reside in FIFONVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 27, 2000·107 cites·30 claims
- 1782US7999801B1System and method of detecting rotated displaysNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 16, 2011·4 cites·20 claims
- 1882US4956801AMatrix arithmetic circuit for processing matrix transformation operationsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1989·Granted Sep 11, 1990·70 cites·6 claims
- 1981US5159665AGraphics accelerator systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1989·Granted Oct 27, 1992·65 cites·75 claims
- 2080US7598948B1System and method of detecting rotated displaysNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 6, 2009·16 cites·35 claims
- 2180US5687357ARegister array for utilizing burst mode transfer on local busNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 11, 1997·87 cites·8 claims
- 2280US5652793AMethod and apparatus for authenticating the use of softwareNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 29, 1997·92 cites·9 claims
- 2379US5734369AMethod and apparatus for dithering images in a digital display systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Mar 31, 1998·53 cites·10 claims
- 2478US5918050AApparatus accessed at a physical I/O address for address and data translation and for context switching of I/O devices in response to commands from application programsNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 29, 1999·77 cites·17 claims
- 2578US5740464AArchitecture for providing input/output operations in a computer systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 14, 1998·70 cites·15 claims
- 2677US6226012B1Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of graphical imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 1, 2001·67 cites·21 claims
- 2777US5623692AArchitecture for providing input/output operations in a computer systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 22, 1997·69 cites·10 claims
- 2877US5245702AMethod and apparatus for providing shared off-screen memorySUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 14, 1993·77 cites·8 claims
- 2976US6239808B1Method and apparatus for determining texture values of graphical imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 29, 2001·65 cites·32 claims
- 3075US5754866ADelayed interrupts with a FIFO in an improved input/output architectureNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1997·Granted May 19, 1998·69 cites·11 claims
- 3175US5577232AMethod and apparatus for allowing computer circuitry to function with updated versions of computer softwareSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1994·Granted Nov 19, 1996·70 cites·4 claims
- 3274US5805175AMethod and apparatus for providing a plurality of color formats from a single frame bufferNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 8, 1998·42 cites·21 claims
- 3373US8463951B1Unified driver architecture device identifier strategyPRIEM CURTIS R·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 11, 2013·19 cites·11 claims
- 3473US6191794B1Method and apparatus for scaling texture maps for graphical imagesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 20, 2001·57 cites·15 claims
- 3573US5721947AApparatus adapted to be joined between the system I/O bus and I/O devices which translates addresses furnished directly by an application programNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 24, 1998·64 cites·16 claims
- 3671US8180943B1Method and apparatus for latency based thread schedulingPRIEM CURTIS R·Filed 2004·Granted May 15, 2012·17 cites·18 claims
- 3769US5768628AMethod for providing high quality audio by storing wave tables in system memory and having a DMA controller on the sound card for transferring the wave tablesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 16, 1998·23 cites·8 claims
- 3869US5070443AApparatus for write handshake in high-speed asynchronous bus interfaceSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1989·Granted Dec 3, 1991·39 cites·6 claims
- 3967US6292854B1Method and apparatus for providing high quality audio in a computer systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 18, 2001·20 cites·3 claims
- 4067US5740406AMethod and apparatus for providing fifo buffer input to an input/output device used in a computer systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 14, 1998·50 cites·24 claims
- 4166US5638535AMethod and apparatus for providing flow control with lying for input/output operations in a computer systemNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 10, 1997·48 cites·10 claims
- 4265US6628290B1Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple texturesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 30, 2003·11 cites·3 claims
- 4365US5237650AMethod and apparatus for spatial anti-aliased depth cueingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1991·Granted Aug 17, 1993·33 cites·20 claims
- 4463US7136068B1Texture cache for a computer graphics acceleratorNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 14, 2006·37 cites·7 claims
- 4563US5968148AHigh quality audio generation by storing wave tables in system memory and having a DMA controller on the sound board for transferring the wave tablesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 19, 1999·17 cites·2 claims
- 4662US5287487APredictive caching method and apparatus for generating a predicted address for a frame bufferSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1993·Granted Feb 15, 1994·40 cites·5 claims
- 4761US5539430APipelined read write operations in a high speed frame buffer systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1993·Granted Jul 23, 1996·25 cites·16 claims
- 4859US6065071AMethod and apparatus for trapping unimplemented operations in input/output devicesNVIDIA CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 16, 2000·35 cites·9 claims
- 4958US5924126AMethod and apparatus for providing address translations for input/output operations in a computer systemNVIDIA·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 13, 1999·34 cites·18 claims
- 5056US6075544AMethod and apparatus for accelerating rendering by coalescing data accessesNVIDIA·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 13, 2000·20 cites·30 claims
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