Backshell assembly
Granted: October 24, 2006
Patent Number:
7124505
A cable connector backshell assembly for high frequency applications requiring reduced electromagnetic emissions. Aspects include providing sufficient physical spacing and electrical isolation between the signal conductors and the housing to meet EMI standards for HIPPI-6400 connector assemblies. One embodiment includes spring preloading of the electrical connector. One embodiment includes a longitudinally floating connector.
Method and computer program product for precise feedback data generation and updating for compile-time optimizations
Granted: October 10, 2006
Patent Number:
7120906
A method and computer program product, within an optimizing compiler, for precise feedback data generation and updating. The method and computer program uses instrumentation and annotation of frequency values to allow feedback data to stay current during the multiple optimizations that the program code undergoes during compilation. Global propagation of known precise feedback values are used to replace approximate and unavailable values, and global verification of feedback data after…
System and method for encoding page size information
Granted: August 29, 2006
Patent Number:
7100018
A system and method for encoding page size information has been described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes determining whether a virtual address is stored in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), the TLB including a plurality of entries, wherein the entries include a minimum virtual page number bit string and a variable bit string. In one embodiment the method also includes determining whether the first bit string matches the minimum virtual page number bit string of one of…
Method and system for secure remote distributed rendering
Granted: August 15, 2006
Patent Number:
7092983
A computerized method for remotely rendering a render job includes receiving a render job submitted by a client at a first rendering site, the render job associated with at least one file stored at the first rendering site. The file stores information necessary to render the render job. The method also includes transferring the render job from the first rendering site to a second rendering site, the second site remote from the first site. The method further includes transmitting a copy…
External fan and method for exchanging air with modular bricks in a computer system
Granted: August 8, 2006
Patent Number:
7088581
A modular computing system that includes an enclosure, a rack mounted inside the enclosure and a plurality of modular bricks. The modular bricks each include electronic components and are supported by the rack. The computing system further includes a floor tile supporting the enclosure. The floor tile includes a plurality of fans that exchange air with each of the modular bricks to cool the electronic components in each modular brick.
Address translation using a page size tag
Granted: August 8, 2006
Patent Number:
7089398
A method and system for resolving virtual addresses using a page size tag are described herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises translating a virtual memory address into physical memory address. According to the method, the translating includes producing a first page size tag and choosing an entry in a translation lookaside buffer, wherein the entry stores a second page size tag and a page frame number. The method also includes comparing the first page size tag with the second…
Compact flat panel color calibration system
Granted: June 27, 2006
Patent Number:
7068263
A compact flat panel color calibration system includes a lens prism optic able to pass a narrow, perpendicular, and uniform cone angle of incoming light to a spectrally non-selective photodetector. The calibration system also includes a microprocessor operable to determine the luminance of the display based upon the information gathered by the photodetector. A software module included in the calibration system is then operable to process the luminance information in order to adjust the…
Providing shared and non-shared access to memory in a system with plural processor coherence domains
Granted: June 27, 2006
Patent Number:
7069306
A method and system for managing memory in a multiprocessor system includes defining the plurality of processor coherence domains within a system coherence domain of the multiprocessor system. The processor coherence domains each include a plurality of processors and a processor memory. Shared access to data in the processor memory of each processor coherence domain is provided only to elements of the multiprocessor system within the processor coherence domain. Non-shared access to data…
System and method for implementing shadows using pre-computed textures
Granted: June 20, 2006
Patent Number:
7064755
The present invention provides an improved system and method for rendering shadows in a computer graphics system. Textures representing the area of influence resulting from a combination of light sources and shadow casters are pre-computed. Scenes are then rendered using the pre-computed textures. A first step entails generating sets of directions and associated pre-computed textures for each light source and shadow caster pair in a simulation frame. Next, a first scene in the simulation…
Management and scheduling of a distributed rendering method and system
Granted: June 13, 2006
Patent Number:
7062527
A computerized method for rendering images includes receiving a render job having at least one render frame and an associated job profile and inserting the render job into a job queue. The method also includes advancing the render job in the job queue as other render jobs are removed from the job queue, distributing the render frames via a communications medium to at least one of the plurality of render servers based at least in part on the job profile, and rendering the render frames.…
Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data
Granted: June 6, 2006
Patent Number:
7058218
The present invention provides for a method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method of compressing a color cell comprises the steps of: defining at least four luminance levels of the color cell; generating a bitmask for the color cell, the bitmask having a plurality of entries each corresponding to a respective one of the pixels, each of the entries for storing data identifying one of the luminance…
System, method and computer program product for intuitive interactive navigation control in virtual environments
Granted: June 6, 2006
Patent Number:
7058896
A system, method and computer program product is provided for interactive user navigation in a real-time 3D simulation. An assembly builder permits a user to build customized physics-based assemblies for user navigation in a variety of virtual environments. These assemblies are stored in a library and are then accessed by a navigation run-time module that runs in conjunction with, or as a part of, a visual run-time application. The navigation run-time module receives high-level user goal…
Method, system, and computer program product for determining a structure of a graphics compositor tree
Granted: April 25, 2006
Patent Number:
7034837
Compositors are identified in a manner that defines the position of the compositor in the compositor tree. Each compositor has its own “unique compositor identifier”. Starting at the most downstream compositor, it transmits its unique compositor identifier to all upstream compositors directly coupled to it. The upstream compositors receive the unique compositor identifier from the most downstream compositor. Each of the upstream compositors appends its unique compositor identifier to…
System and method for adaptively deskewing parallel data signals relative to a clock
Granted: April 18, 2006
Patent Number:
7031420
A system and method of reducing skew between a plurality of signals transmitted with a transmit clock is described. Skew is detected between the received transmit clock and each of received data signals. Delay is added to the clock or to one or more of the plurality of data signals to compensate for the detected skew. Each of the plurality of delayed signals is compared to a reference signal to detect changes in the skew. The delay added to each of the plurality of delayed signals is…
Method and system for spatially compositing digital video images with a tile pattern library
Granted: April 11, 2006
Patent Number:
7027072
A method and system for spatially compositing digital video images with a tile pattern library. Spatial compositing uses a graphics pipeline to render a portion (tile) of each overall frame of digital video images. This reduces the amount of data that each processor must act on and increases the rate at which an overall frame is rendered. Optimization of spatial compositing depends on balancing the processing load among the different pipelines. The processing load typically is a direct…
System and method for generating sequences and global interrupts in a cluster of nodes
Granted: March 21, 2006
Patent Number:
7016998
A system and method for generating sequences of triggered events and for generating global interrupts in a clustered computer graphics system. In a sender-receiver dichotomy, one node is deemed the sender and the others act as receivers. The sender determines trigger values for each of the nodes in the system in order to achieve a particular operation sequence. In addition, a synchronization signal generator is provided to synchronize a timing signal between the sender and receiver…
Texture roaming via dimension elevation
Granted: March 14, 2006
Patent Number:
7012614
The present invention provides texture roaming via dimension elevation. A degree elevated texture is used to contain level of detail (LOD) levels (or tiles) of a clip-map across a degree elevated coordinate space. For example, a three-dimensional (3D) texture is used for two-dimensional (2D) clip-mapping, a four-dimensional (4D) texture is used for 3D clip-mapping, and a 2D texture is used for one-dimensional (1D) clip-mapping. Once the levels of a clip-map are placed in an extra…
Multi-mode display
Granted: March 7, 2006
Patent Number:
7009616
A display is capable of displaying images in response to differently formatted signals. The display includes a switch that enables a user to select among a plurality of signal formats. The switch has a first setting that corresponds to a first of the plurality of signal formats and a second setting that corresponds to a second of the plurality of signal formats. The display also includes a memory module that receives requests from a channel and transmits a response associated with the…
Method and system for covering multiple resourcces with a single credit in a computer system
Granted: February 28, 2006
Patent Number:
7007097
A method and system for communicating to a sender an availability of receiving a new message includes providing buffers having at least one corresponding slot for storing a message and providing a credit signal that communicates to the sender only when all of the buffers have at least one of the corresponding slot available for storing a new message. Each of the buffers is monitored for whether at least one of the corresponding slots is available for storing the new message. A…
Method and apparatus for recording trace data in a microprocessor based integrated circuit
Granted: February 28, 2006
Patent Number:
7007205
An integrated circuit (10) includes a central processing unit (12), an instruction cache (14), a data cache (16), and a trace recorder. The central processing unit (12) interacts with the instruction cache (14) and the data cache (16) in order to execute instructions. Information passed between the central processing unit (12), the instruction cache (14), and the data cache (16) not normally available for external analysis may be captured by the trace recorder (20) in response to various…
